Now that the season of closed primaries is upon us, we'll have to learn to live without those perfidious crossover voters. If we can remember how. This silly business has raged on for weeks. What started as a wily strategy to blow a primary opponent out of the water has become a dangerous diversion. Woe betide those of us who've refused to hop on the conspiracy bandwagon.
Somebody needs the wood.
For starters, the crossover phenomenon is neither new nor unique to Democrats. Inevitably, some uninvited guests walk through that door. And generally, it's no big deal. What made it ugly this time was the decision of the Bush campaign, for cynically strategic reasons, to stage an epic temper-tantrum about crossovers. This tactic, as I've noted before, is already backfiring.