Posted on 05/07/2014 2:01:05 PM PDT by GregNH
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican National Committee wants to take more control over how the party picks a White House nominee.
The RNC was to meet Wednesday in Memphis, Tennessee, to choose members who will effectively set the calendar for 2016's long list of potential presidential contenders. If the party's chairman, Reince Priebus gets his way, the GOP will pick its nominee more quickly than during past contests and have fewer debates in which candidates could criticize each other.
The RNC also was expected to put penalties in place for candidates who don't follow the committee's plans.
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It begins...
“You will get Jeb Bush, and you will like it!”
Yep, that's the ticket. It's worked so well the last few elections, hasn't it?
Thread from earlier if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3153289/posts
GOP WANTS MORE CONTROL OVER PICKING 2016 NOMINEE
Actually, this seems pretty sensible. Our primaries and debates are too stretched out and we never coalesce around a candidate because they’re always busy tearing at each other and not attacking the Dem candidate. Furthermore, that process lets the GOP-e impose the candidate in the end, because all the others have killed each other in the circular firing squad and the only one left is the well-funded, establishment supported candidate.
The Dems, in the other hand, usually have it narrowed down to a couple of contenders very early on, which gives them a big advantage.
They want to shove someone who is well financed and organized (Bush, Romney again etc.) down our throats while our resources are diverted into supporting Huckabee, Santorum, Carson, Paul, Cruz and others.
We the People haven’t been able to do any better - Dole, Bush 1 & 2, McCain, Romney - Globalists, Big Govt., non-conservative by most accounts. It’s how the Primaries in each state work. When the Dems can vote either ticket in the Primary, then it gets really messy - maybe not in 2016 if there is a real horse race for the Dem nomination.
At this point....What difference does it make? Karl Rove and the Bushes have a stranglehold on what is now the moderate wing of the DNC.
Yep, that’s the ticket. It’s worked so well the last few elections, hasn’t it?
There WERE way too many “debates.” And how about someone choosing the so-called moderators instead of the far-left media hacks who only want to make the Republicans look bad.
The question is who decides these and other questions. If you do not want the leadership of the Republican party to make the decisions then who?
“When the Dems can vote either ticket in the Primary”
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And don’t forget the independents.
Between Dem crossovers and independents, we invariably end up with Socialism Lite.
The GOPe’s gave us McCain and Romney.
How did that work out?
Eventually Reagan democrats and conservatives will form
a new coalition and slay all the RINO’s.
Fight them in every state, in every locality, at every turn.
This GOP is more like the unGOP.
This is simply ridiculous. The general electorate picks from two candidates based on their campaign to the general electorate.
Thank you, and sorry for the redundancy.
The entire delegate allocation process needs to be overhauled even more so than the calendar which gives outsized influence to pissant states like New Hampshire and Iowa.
Basically, a state should be guaranteed no more delegates than they have electoral votes and this should be no more than about 20% or 25% of the total delegates.
After that, at least 50% to 60% of the delegates should be based on the actual performance of the states in delivering electoral votes to the GOP candidate over the last 5 or 6 election cycles. If this means North Dakota or Wyoming gets three times as many delegates as Vermont, then so be it.
The remaining 15% to 30% of delegates can be awarded based on GOP senators or representatives in congress, as governors, state legislatures, willingness to schedule their primary and caucus dates later and the like.
The specifics can be debated. But the reality is actual ability to deliver electoral votes in November should be worth at least 2 to 3 times what those potential electoral votes are.
Yeah, it will hurt some big money donor's feelings. But it will make way more sense.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee wants to take more control over how the party picks a White House nominee.
Yeah, because you did such a great job the last two times.....
Nothing to be sorry for. Just linking another thread if anyone was interesting in
reading the comments thereon. Same thread subject at differing times of the day
draw varying responses, imo.
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