My thoughts are that it is a very bad policy. But the State can change it. I am not in favor of compelling States to change their laws through coercing them, but through the ballot box. It’s called States Right to Govern.
The question of how power should be divided between the federal government and the states is really what American politics has been all about for well over two centuries. It is a question debated by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, debated by Federalists and Anti-Federalists during the ratification period, and debated between and within our political parties ever since. Elections have been won and lost on this question, and a Civil War fought over it.
The overriding point is that the GOP has misled its members. Every Republican in Colorado is a member of the “party” yet they’ve been ignored so the leaders can control the election.
It’s wrong on every level but if the GOP didn’t want our input, they should have said so at the outset. We could have formed a 3rd party with Trump and we would have won. Instead they act like we’re one party then stab us in the back.
I still believe in states rights, even though Donald apparently does not.
If the people of Colorado want to change their system, they can do so.
However, the system they have in place now was easy enough to understand.
Ted Cruz and his staff understood it.
Donald didn’t bother.
Stop whining, Donald, you are making a fool of yourself.
“My thoughts are that it is a very bad policy. But the State can change it. I am not in favor of compelling States to change their laws through coercing them, but through the ballot box. It’s called States Right to Govern”
But where does the “private GOP organization” end and the state gov begin?
If the GOP wants to create it’s product, let it. But don’t beg for our money and input claiming it determines the product.
Can a state force a political party to choose its delegates via primary? I don’t think so.