Does anyone really take this claim from Gov. Patrick at face value?
Senator Barack Obama's Massachusetts supporters began focusing their efforts on the November election yesterday, fanning out to busy areas in Boston to register voters, even as the candidate's Democratic primary campaign against Senator Hillary Clinton continued.Governor Deval Patrick rallied about 100 volunteers at Roxbury's Reggie Lewis Center yesterday. The volunteers scooped up voter registration slips and chose MBTA stations, parks, and other spots to find unregistered voters.
Patrick, wearing blue jeans, stood outside the Back Bay T Station and registered potential voters, saying he wouldn't even object if some were Republicans.
"I think it's in the spirit of the campaign that if someone says, 'I want to register, but I'm going to register as a Republican,' you sign them up," he said.
Puh-leeze. How can Patrick not object to people registering as Republicans when, just a few years ago, he accused pro-Republican talk radio of encouraging hate crimes? Does anybody really think he wants people to support the party of Reagan, when he wouldn't even honor Reagan's birthday?
Come on, Deval. The last thing you want is people aligning themselves with the GOP. Who are you trying to fool?
UPDATE: More from Diane Patrick and the Globe.
SECOND UPDATE: From the Herald and Hub Politics.
