(Originally posted at Prosper Group Think and reposted with permission)

You may remember Barney Smith from Fairmount, Indiana. He spoke at the Democrat National Convention Thursday night and was one of the people who introduced Barack Obama.   He will be remembered  for the line “I want a president who cares more about Barney Smith than they do about Smith Barney.”   A great well-written line that many people remember.

On Thursday night in Denver, when he introduced Barack Obama, he claimed to be a “lifelong” Republican.  But it looks like the Democrats lied about his affiliation, or at minimum never took the time to check him out.

You would think that with all those Republicans who are supposedly crossing over to vote for the Obamassaih the Democrats would have actually been able to find a real one.

Barney Smith’s voter registration is clear. It shows that for the last 12 years he has voted in 3 primary elections.  In 1996 he voted Democrat, in 2006 he voted Republican, and in 2008 he voted Democrat.

He may well have had Republican leanings, and how he voted in general elections is, of course, confidential. But would you say that voting in one Republican primary in the last 12 years would qualify a person to be a “lifelong” Republican?

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