Registering as a Republican to troll primaries?

[concise]

Good idea? Bad idea?

Could this work on any kind of scale?

 

[Chris.B]

I went to a Romney gathering in Fairfax VA and got some numbers of some bad white chicks..I'm far from a right winger but I went there with one thing in mind

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

 

[Handsback]

For some reason I'm registered as a Republican. Don't know how that happened.

I always get the when I show up to vote.

 

[electric_fur]

No offense concise but....


that sounds really stupid.

 

[Binary]

No offense concise but....


that sounds really stupid.

It may sound stupid but a lot of Dems that last primary


Concise, go for it. #hardonrepublicans

 

[SouthernBelle]

I don't agree with the tactic, but I've heard of republicans doing it. Mitt Romney himself confessed to doing it years ago:

ABC News’ Jonathan Greenberger Reports: Republican presidential candididate Mitt Romney offered a new explanation today for why he supported a Democrat in 1992.

That year, Romney, then a registered independent, voted for former Sen. Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary. He told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, in an interview that will air Sunday on "This Week," that his vote was meant as a tactical maneuver aimed at finding the weakest opponent for incumbent President George H.W. Bush.

"In Massachusetts, if you register as an independent, you can vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary," said Romney, who until he made an unsuccessful run for Senate in 1994 had spent his adult life as a registered independent. "When there was no real contest in the Republican primary, I’d vote in the Democrat primary, vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for the Republican."

Romney also said he voted in Dem primaries to influence the race - POLITICO.com