Posted by
flipsidedon on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:18:52 PM
This not only is stupid, it is unconscionable behavior. Why on earth would Republicans allow Democrats and "moderates" (liberals too cowardly to say they are) to decide who will be the Republican candidate with whom we try to counter the totalitarian socialism (socialism of necessity is always totalitarian because it is opposed to the law of nature and therefore can only be sustained by force over human's lives, but that is another story) of the Democrat Party? All of these open primaries, especially in the early primaries such as New Hampshire, accomplish is to allow the media to turn a liberal such as John McCain or Mike Huckabee into the alleged "front-runner", put the candidates actually preferred by those who actually love America and the values that made her great into being so called "non-starters" who allegedly "must win" in primaries that are being decided by non-Republicans.
John McCain was turned into the Republican front-runner after the 2000 Republican primary after New Hampshire because he won the primary with 17% of those who voted for him being Democrat and "moderate" cross-over voters. And in Michigan today he is tied for the lead in the polls due to the number of Democrats who will vote for him since the Michigan Democrat primary will not send any delegates to the convention; in other words the Democrat primary in Michigan this year doesn't matter at all. So, the vast number of Democrats who bother to go to the polls are voting for McCain in order to try to help nominate the most Democrat-like Republican candidate.
I believe the Republican Party should tell state Republican parties to end this absurd practice of having open primaries or the party will no longer accept that states delegates to their national convention. This manipulation of the Republican process of choosing their candidates by liberals must be brought to an end so that our candidates actually represent the party, meaning the people of the party, rather than the party elites known as the Country Club Republicans who are in it for personal power rather than for the welfare of the United States of America.