Kracken Party
Tear your enemies asunder!
Posted on 06/27/2014 5:11:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Let loose the Kraken Party!
In an open primary state, if the parties didn’t want the potential for crossover, they’d close the primaries.
Most states with open primaries keep them open specifically to allow crossover voting. There can’t be any other reason.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
What McDaniel is fighting right now are the ILLEGAL votes that were cast by people voting in the dem primary on the 3rd that voted ILLEGALLY again in the republican primary on the 24th.
The rest of us are kvetching about the WAY these voters were encouraged to cross over.
Tear your enemies asunder!
I was just saying on another thread, I see some common ground. I get stuff on facebook from extreme rightys and extreme leftys and it’s the same stuff.
OK, on many issues there will never be common ground. But on a lot of other issues there is.
It’s very hard to look at a person like Cochran and his string pullers and not see that they are only in it for the money. Heck, they said it right out.
And from when does that money come? From me g-damnit.
I don’t know, but we can’t continue on the way we’ve been going.
These republicans don’t like us, they think the Mexicans will vote for them, they are so delusional they make Obama and Pelosi and Reid look grounded.
They may as well just shove Amensty through, because I don’t think I’m voting for them again. And I’m a 3rd generation Republican. I stuck with them because of the Life issues, but please, if you are going to say I’m in the KKK, I’m going to tell you to go you-know-what yourself.
It's not just wrong when you do it to your own kind, it's wrong, period. It is also a wonderful argument for closed primaries, but that is another discussion.
a) the GOP establishment disenfranchising its own base by setting up an election such that Dems would override the votes of rank and file part members in favor of a senile progressive.
Which was wrong. I can't put it any more plainly.
b) the GOP establishment smearing its own base as racists for the purpose of recruiting Dem voters to override the votes of its own base get an old senile progressive chased as the party candidate.
Not right, but something similar happens after every single convention and after most primaries, when the candidate moves to the center. They end up trashing at least part of the base.
The electoral math in many states means that the candidate knows they are going to shed some of their own in favor of crossovers if they plan to win. This is a huge part of what has been wrong with the state of the GOP for as long as I can remember. It makes voters distrustful, and for good reason. They turn on their base like vipers.
What Cochran and Co. did was wrong but unfortunately not unexpected.
c) the GOP establishment destroying a promising, up and coming candidate who has been a loyal party member since he was 13.
I don't see how he is destroyed by this. He'll live to run again regardless of what happens in this instance. It doesn't look like he did anything wrong, illegal, or shameful.
Also, I don't know how you define "party member", but I assure you he didn't register to vote until he turned 18. I campaigned for Ronald Reagan when I was a child before he was elected. I wasn't a party member until the day after I turned 18, when I registered to vote. President Reagan was already in office by then.
Maybe Childers just wanted to represent his district.
It's stunning how "conservative" Pubs get elected from conservative districts and states and then "evolve" into establishment types. Fool me once shame on them. Fool me twice shame on me.
Agreed.
Assuming that Childers would want to keep his seat once won, he could not deviate from his conservatism too much.
I have no illusions, though, about politicians. I do not consider Childers a white knight. He’s just in the right place at the right time to foil the establishment treachery.
I think it was probably Barasso or someone like that who feels bad. Maybe Thune. Maybe Shelby. The Alabama GOP is looking at closing its primaries.
Maybe Shelby. Shelby is an idiot for donating to Thad. He doesn’t need the money. He needs a conservative record.
Secondly, with Republicans in control of the Senate, Alabama’s junior U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions would become the chairman of the Budget Committee, which sets the federal government’s spending levels. So there is a very realistic scenario in which one Alabama senator (Sessions) would set the spending amount, and the other Alabama senator (Shelby) would lead the debate on where that amount of money is spent.
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