[laweeks]

I don’t know how this works, but is there any way to keep them the hell out of our primaries? Didn’t they skew the vote for McLame and other limpy candidates by crossing party affiliations. And didn’t they somehow stop us from going to screw up their primaries.

Or am I wrong?

[Artemis Webb]

If you think the crossover vote problem was bad when Obama and Hillary were slugging it out wait until Obama is running unopposed.

[Charles Martel]

Each state makes its own election laws - pressing for closed primaries in key states *should* have been an RNC priority before the mid-term elections. Instead, Michael Steele busied himself by doing a book promotion tour and sticking his foot in his mouth repeatedly on national news programs.

The only thing that will mitigate the "primary raiding" this cycle is a strong primary challenge on the Democrat side. Long shot, that.

[arrogantsob]

You are wrong. Republicans voted for McCain because they wanted him more than any other candidate.

This idea that any other forces produced his victory is a fantasy. Many of us warned what was going to happen when the Right kept running out sure-fire losers to opposed McCain and crucified the early front runner, Guiliani. The obvious choice was Rudy or John so destroying the former made the latter inevitable.