If they wanted to do something useful they could arrange to have closed primaries at the state level.
Of course McCain and Linda would be opposed to it.
Could the process be better? Sure. Does it really matter? No. The conservative champion who can’t beat Christie in at least one of Iowa or New Hampshire under the current rules is not going to be able to beat Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden in Ohio or Florida.
Amen to that! It absolutely enraged me that the Dems in SC were allowed to cross over to vote for McStain in '08. That was the state that was to give Fred Thompson momentum going into Super Tuesday...but the Dems didn't want to face Thompson.
WTF is the point of calling something a REPUBLICAN primary if ANYONE can vote in it? How about forcing people to prove that they've been registered as Republicans for at least 6 months? Open primaries force the candidate choices to the left wing, since almost all crossovers are actually Dem voters (some multiple times in each election) - and for the Party to allow that to occur speaks of a wilful set of actions.