C'mon Rosemary, I'm not necessarily a fan of Michael Moore, but do you actively CANCEL your voter registration when you move? I don't. It never occurred to me!

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Yeah, but we move. He didn't. He registered to vote here because he has a vacation home here. He still lives in NY.

Wait a minute ... you can register for a party but not be counted in the DNC or RNC? How on earth does that work? Just because you don't show up to meetings? I thought registering affiliated you with that group.

IT--

I registered a few years ago for the first time, and then reregistered when I moved and maybe this is just something done by my particular state and its forms, but when you send in a new form to get a new polling place, they cancel your previous registration for you. So I'm guessing that Moore could have easily cancelled his registration if he moved.

IT,

The point is not that he didn't cancel his last voter reg. The point is, on his last voter reg, he DECLARED HIMSELF A DEMOCRAT. So lets look at the time line. He was a democrat in 1992 thru 2001.

1992 Clinton beats Bush, Mikey is a Democrat

1996 Clinton beats Dole, Mikey still a Democrat

2000 W Bush beats Gore, Mikey still a Democrat

2001 Mikey votes in Democratic Primary run off election in NY

2004 A few months before the election, Mikey is an independant. He is also a filmmaker and he releases a movie with possible damaging info against POTUS.

The fact that Mikey comes out and says he is an Independant, makes him a liar.

If you want to try to prove me wrong, please provide links to Michael Moore ripping into John Kerry and the Democrats.

Thanks,

Jerry

Michael Moore lied (gasp!)

So no beatification then (beautification was already out of the question ;-)

"beautification was already out of the question"

ha! ha! Well, he looks better than me. ha1 ha!

As to registration: It seems to me that the primary purpose of registering for a particular political party is so that you can vote in that party's primaries/caucuses -- not necessarily to make a general philosophical statement of "I approve of all that this party's candidates say or do".

I consider myself Independent, but I have, on different occasions, registered as a Democrat or as a Republican depending on the situation. When the incumbent was a Democrat, I have registered Republican for the reason that there would be a spectrum of Republicans running for the nomination and I would want to vote for the best (or least objectionable) of those candidates, e.g., John McCain in 2000. Conversely, when the incumbent was a Republican, I would register as a Democrat in order to vote for the best (or least objectionable) of the candidates, e.g., Howard Dean in 2004.

In other words, I try in each election to help get the best (or least terrible) possible candidates from each party to choose from in the general election. Obviously, as you can see from the examples I gave, my viewpoint is clearly a minority one in both major parties. That won't stop me from trying.

When you lie that much, I don't think people should say you lied AGAIN. We should say that he's STILL lying.

Vote early, vote often!

And, um, that he's a democrat should surprise whom exacty? Did ya ever think that Moore might have voted for Nader?

Rosemary, I'm not sure you have much of a leg to stand on to complain about Michael Moore, when you make mistakes yourself, such as in your thread about the MoveOn ads.

Well, I correct my mistakes has Mikey?

No you didn't, Rosemary:

"It was a contest entry that made it to the finals. It was pulled and didn't win mostly because of the uproar; not IMHO because the MoveOn sponsors and supporters don't agree with it because it was voted into the finals of the contest."

This is false. But it's still on the top of your thread, and you haven't corrected this in the comments either.

The correction was that it was a contest entry not a MoveOn ad.

That is correct.

The rest is my opinion.

It's all really beside the point. If we follow your criteria then Moore doesn't have the right to criticize Bush, does he?

Nobody can criticize anybody if we follow your rule of absolutes.

Hmm, lets see, I consider myself an independant, but am registered as a Dem. So I guess I am lying when I say I am independant and not a member of the Dem. Party. (no, I do not vote in primaries). Being "registered" as so,ething does not have to equate to being a "member." Being "registered" with the Selective Service, does not make you a "member" of the armed forces.

And Rose - I saw the film, apparently, you did not. I looked and tried real hard like to find one mention of Kerry, and could not find one. MAtter of fact, there wasnt much mention of repubs much either. Matter of fact, you didnt really hear a whole lot from Moore himself - most of the talk came from the bush administration themselves - the horses mouths.