Posted on 08/28/2016 6:31:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans have chosen a primary rather than a convention for 2017 as a way to elect candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.
The State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia narrowly voted Saturday to have a primary for the first time since 2005, scoring a win for the party’s establishment wing.
John Whitbeck, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, said the primary will allow candidates to expand the party’s outreach.
“We can’t afford anymore to exclude anybody from the Republican Party,” he said.
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Ohmygosh. The reasoning of whomever wrote this article doesn’t make any sense. The problems with stolen delegates and sneaky maneuvers happened in places that didn’t have primaries. Would Trump have had a chance at the nomination if it weren’t for the primaries in NE and NY?
Are you familiar with Rob Wittman? My understanding is that conservatives are coalescing around him and they want the convention. I like Corey Stewart but he might not connect outside northern Virginia.
Would a conservative - a true conservative running in the primary against a good-old-boy Richmond establishment GOP'er stand a chance?
<< The reasoning of whomever wrote this article doesn’t make any sense. >>
WTOP hates Republicans, so you can’t really believe anything they write or say.
Apples and oranges. These are convention vs. primary discussions for next year's local Virginia positions, not for nationwide seats.
True, but sometimes you can discern a bit of truth between the words. ;-)
LOL, it kind of reminds me of the Kremlinologists and Sinologists the CIA used to employ, squeezing what truth they could get out of those country’s public statements. :-)
Whitbeck is a big unity guy. During the Primary, he kept his own candidate preference close to his chest. Once it was clear the nominee was going to be Trump, he started showing up at every district convention giving a great unity speech. I think it really helped turn the Cruz supporters to Trump.
Well that’s good to hear. Still wish they’d voted for the convention though. I’m just afraid the VA GOPe will have their grimy mitts in the local campaigns, ensuring that “their people” get all the support.
Agree, primaries are always risky since we don’t register by party in the Commonwealth.
The VAGOP has been a tool of the Cheap Labor Express.
We started breaking that hold with Dave Brat.
They did not like it one bit.
They had to have amnesty candidates for the last two Senate races, George Allen was already a loser but they insisted we had to run a loser who supported amnesty.
Ed Gillespie, who could have won if he had gone after Warner for supporting amnesty, wouldn’t because he supported it, too.
Nothing is more important to the establishment than preventing the citizens from stopping the Cheap Labor Express.
(I use "interesting" in the sense of that old [purported] Chinese phrase)
Nigel Farage talks about the corporatists-the big banks and big business forces that run the political system.
And cheap labor is big enough for them to destroy anything or anyone who looks like they are blocking it like Donald Trump.
The world is different today, because of Donald Trump. Trump has made primaries popular. His appeal to Democrats, swing and independent voters and non-voters, made him unstoppable this past year. It’s not the same kind of conservatism as in the recent past. It’s very sensitive to those who are getting the shaft in our economy and society. We need a Donald Trump Mini Me in Virginia.
Primaries need to be closed and winner take all. The gope will make sure anyone not Party approved will ever win again. The gop will be more rigged than Hillary’s primary was.
Gillespie is the choice of the Gope. A New Jersey establishment rino.
Any up-and-coming challengers in his district?
So are convention’s that can be dominated by the liberal, northern part of the state.
Closed primaries are meaningless in Virginia. State law declares that residents do NOT announce party affiliation.
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