‘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.
It all smells pretty fishy down there and if conservatives still want to be part of the GOP, they’ll have to fight in the primary system created by the leaders.
But there are other options to this farce of two parties who pretend to be different, but aren’t in the end.
The third party or a civil disobedience movement that forces change in the GOP like the racial protests 50 years ago forced the Dems to move off the fence on race.
The Uniparty Corporatist system is the reality of our political landscape with Donald Trump and and a handful of Congressman who came out and opposed Paul Ryan for Speaker being the only rays of sunshine.