I have been invited to create a little Mitt mischief in Michigan [1] here. I am a Michigan resident, and, as the article says, we don’t register in a political party here; we just plain register to vote. So, on election day, I can vote anywhere I want as long as I don’t cross party lines. My area is heavily Republican and the Dems rarely even nominate anyone locally, so I often vote the “other side” of the ballot. I last did that in a presidential primary when I voted for McCain just to deny Bush the state as our Republican Governor, John Engler, had promised. The place I worked at the time had a VP of Manufacturing who was more Republican than anyone else in the county, and I relayed that information to him, trying to goad him into a political disagreement. Such fun it was! He started turning red, ranted and raved about how what I did was illegal (it was not) and that I was undermining the established political process. I calmly (the best way to argue with him) told him that if the state didn’t want this sort of thing to happen, the solidly Republican Legislature would not have made it the law, and that if he wanted to prevent me from doing so in the future, he would exercise his considerable (in his mind, anyway) influence on the lawmakers to change our state back to a closed primary system, as it had had in the past.

So, next Tuesday, I’ll stop on the way home from work and vote the “other side” of the ballot and give Mitt my vote. Is this right? Well, the state says I can do it and I see the logic behind it, so I’ll do it. Why should I waste my time and energy to vote for the only Democrat on the ballot?

If you’re in Michigan and reading this one, consider doing the same thing. Let’s give the Republicans a dose of their own medicine!

By the way, I just viewed this [2] video about Mormonism. It taught me a lot, even if a few sections are wrong (but not the majority!) according to Mormon scholars. See also this [3] article.