In the Michigan primary, Democrats went to the polls in droves, voting by an 8-1 margin for Senator John McCain.  They were urged to get out the vote by their own party in hopes of crippling GOP frontrunner George W. Bush and helping Vice President Al Gore.

These are not new recruits seeking to strengthen the Republican Party.  They're hijackers, hoping to nominate the most liberal and vulnerable GOP candidate.  By reaching out to these voters, McCain is turning the nominating process into a joke, denying Republicans a chance to choose a candidate that reflects their core beliefs.

Like any large, national group, the Republican Party has fringe members who don't reflect the opinions of the rank and file.  John McCain is such a candidate.  He may be a fine senator, but he's not from the traditional school of Republican politics. 

McCain has gone against his party on taxes, tobacco and campaign finance reform.  He's wobbled when pressed on abortion.  Liberals may be cheering him now, but if he wins the nomination you can be sure their tune will change to chants of "Gore 2000!"

McCain has no business tearing the GOP apart to turn it into a carbon copy of the other party.  By importing Democrats and liberal independents to vote for him in the primaries, he's not advancing his party's goals.  He's only helping bring true what many cynics have long said about Republicans and Democrats: There's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties.