Posted on 04/12/2016 4:12:06 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Where did you get the 65k number?
The real question is with the State of Colorado. Why are they not having a primary election? why are they afraid to let the people make their choice? Perhaps it was a Ron Paul state and that impacted the decision.
Certainly they have plenty of money from pot sales to afford an election.
The problem with the Colorado system is that, since caucus attendees don't know the intentions of even the first level of delegates they are voting for, there is not even an indirect connection between original voter intent and the outcome.
It is a fundamental rule in our system of government that every government employee and officer has the privilege of occupying their position only because they have been appointed or elected to it by someone else. Likewise with whoever appointed them. Ultimately this chain must end up with actual voting members of the public.
The Framers dealt with the problem of "the masses are asses" by making the aforementioned levels of indirection different lengths, appointments and elections by different methods, for different terms, etc. But, again, all these levels of indirection must ultimately end up at the voters.
The un-American system used in Colorado violates this principle by breaking the link between voter intent and who gets the office by inserting three levels of unknown and corruptable delegates who, like kinks in a transmission cable, have no real function other than to serve as points where noise and distortion can be injected.
After HotAir crapped themselves, the good ones started their own.
Slick Teddie and the thugs at the Colorado GOPe used lawyerly fine print to make fools of voters supporting Trump. Look at the ballot sheet with no Trump box. This is the kind of crap slimy slick lawyers do all the time when they cheat us.
"Certainly they have plenty of money from pot sales to afford an election."
Not making a judgment here, just a guess, but maybe Colorado Republicans don't trust voters who legalized pot? It certainly isn't the rocket scientist vote. :-)
Whatever the reason, based on what I've seen this year, the grassroots Republicans who attend state conventions are certainly making more intelligent decisions for the party and the country than the at-large primaries, many of which allow Dems and independents (with no allegiance to the party at all) to vote.
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