Only if the conservatives can win it but the GOPe sees a primary as an opportunity to marshal their forces to win the contests.
Flood the primary contests with big bank and big business money for starters and probably some new tactics like bringing Democrats into the GOP with voter registrations drives or old ones like creating primary rules like they did for POTUS back in 2012.
The GOPe required so large a number of signatures it ended up being Ron Paul versus Mitt Romney with other candidates shut out in the 2012 POTUS primary.
This year’s decision to go proportional delegates in VA on the POTUS primary was also part of a strategy to dilute any conservative support and hopefully spread a majority out among the RINO’s and fake conservatives.
The convention of committed conservatives format in VA has given the GOP candidates who are conservative over the years like Ollie North for US Senate or Mike Farris for Lt. Governor and so on.
‘The GOPe required so large a number of signatures it ended up being Ron Paul versus Mitt Romney with other candidates shut out in the 2012 POTUS primary.’
Right, that was ODIOUS.
I do prefer a straight primary without convention meddling, but if no one has a solid win of votes [within a tiny percentage of all the rest combined], then we should have a runoff vote between the top two. That would be perfection.
And they didn’t win either!
In principle I like the convention idea, but they can be very quickly stampeded into selecting candidates that does’t appeal to the average GOP’er. Remember the average GOP’er is not a FR denizen who lives and breathes conservative politics.
I will settle for a Va GOP primary where only GOP’ers can vote!
No independents, no cross-over Rats!
What they tried against the conservatives in the presidential campaign: Run 5-6-7 “conservative” false-starts against their “chosen” GROPe candidate.
The conservatives fight each other, and the GROPe designate gets enough of what’s left to take the majority of the delegates..