Posted on 12/26/2014 7:20:12 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
We need Instant Runoff ballots so that if no candidate gets a majority, second choices have a better chance of winning.
Except that the same ads and messages are repeated over and over again, and the public really learns little of use about the candidates, just what focus groups indicate will sway opinion.
And a foolish public still rewards this stuff that is presented at the level of “Tastes great! Less filling!”
Part of this is popular stupidity and the old adage goes that you can lead a horse to water but never make him drink.
it has been said that if there was a box ‘none of the above’ at the bottom on the list of candidates on a ballot ... ‘none of the above’ would average fifty percent.
The above is ostensibly true, but it isn't the real reason, in my opinion.
They get the nomination due to votes coming their way because of money, organization, support in the trenches.
Without getting in the old elector debate applied to a political party, we are stuck with this system that we have.
In order to win, Cruz or Lee or whomever, must be funded early, they must have able workers, and they must have grass roots support.
Without the money they are toast and we all know it.
Cruz will be buried by money painting him as everything from a neophyte, to a shyster, to a non-citizen if he doesn't have the finances to overcome the attacks.
Republicans love to attack conservatives.
If conservatives think that the 2016 GOP presidential nominee is too liberal, I hope many of those conservatives will vote for the Constitution Party candidate, if those conservatives know that the race won’t be close, in their state. If they live in WY, UT, ID, AL, or MS, those conservatives know that the Republican will win their state. If they live in NY, MA, CA, DE, or VT, those voters know that the Democrat will win their state. In all of states, 5%-10% could vote for a conservative presidential candidate, without changing who will win their state’s electoral votes. I hope that will cause more republican candidates to be more conservative in the 2017 and ‘18 elections.
There is no other party
The writer is pretending and advocates conservatives to pretend to vote.
The article is drivel, balderdash, hogwash
Well, not directly. I agree wholeheartedly with your rant about getting involved with local politics, primaries etc. But the Establishment does control huge amounts of campaign money and can "starve out" candidates who don't kowtow to their demands.
Right now, for instance, Jeb Bush is hastily sopping up early Establishment campaign cash through his family's vast network of funding sources, and some think that will make it difficult for others to compete. Our opponents understand this very well. The acronym EMILY in EMILY's List means: Early Money Is Like Yeast. We need to open our wallets wider for our candidates when possible.
On that note, this article explains these dynamics quite well:
America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
As to how long the people will sit still, I think we've been close to the spark
for a long while; something big like another Boston-like martial law, or another Bundy ranch showdown certainly could do it, but it's equally possible that it will be a [comparatively] small thing that snowballs. (I wonder if proof came out that the US was arming terrorists if that would do it; the revelation of the NSA's domestic espionage operations seemed to come very close.)
don’t know OneWing ... where the spark is but no doubt the powder supply is growing. It may well come from the useful (useless) idiots but I, like you, believe the useless idiots are useless. Something has changed .... NY’s finest are saying much without saying anything today.
Do show up but the candidate has already been determined by other states earlier primaries without you ever getting a chance to vote? Hold your nose and vote R again? Who died and made Iowa king? I'm sick of it and that has taken decades to reach this point. Don't know what I'll do if Jeb gets the nod but I still hate having voted for McCain.
I debated the 2012 CP nominee at great length (a total of 9 hours over three separate sessions) as we competed for the CA AIP ballot line.
Sadly, he supports the centerpiece programs of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
Took me quite a while to finally get him to admit that those programs were unconstitutional to begin with.
But even then he continued to express support for those unconstitutional programs, just like you would expect of a former Democrat congressman.
To be quite frank about it, I was the only actual conservative running in 2012. Which the delegates recognized when they voted unanimously to give me the ballot line.
In my particular post, or in-general?
Because if it's due to my miscommunication I'd love to learn how to clean it up to make it more conducive to accurately expressing my thoughts.
After Obama was elected, the Tea Party formed pretty quickly. The crowd in the first DC protest march was huge. Now, we can't seem to get anything together. I think the party was hijacked, but with the right leadership, it could come back.
He pretended to care and called out the National Guard, then stopped them. All for show. I won't vote for this guy either.
I heard on Fox today Peter Doocy refer to Terri Schiavo as brain dead. This is how they think they can sweep this under a rug. She was never brain dead at least not till Florida starved and dehydrated her to death.
“West lost his House seat. You can say he was gerrymandered, but whatever.”
Wasn’t the GOP still in charge of Florida when he was gerrymandered out of his seat. I didn’t watch the Republican convention, but I don’t believe Romney allowed him to speak at the convention. The Republicans turned their back on West first. If he had been allowed to make a speech at the convention, he may have won the new district he had to run in.
I thoroughly enjoy listening to Col. West. He’s a great speaker. He didn’t always vote the way I liked (Pigsford, for instance), but he is genuine.
“Right now, for instance, Jeb Bush is hastily sopping up early Establishment campaign cash through his family’s vast network of funding sources, and some think that will make it difficult for others to compete. “
That’s how they locked up the nomination for Dubya in 2000. It seemed like a done deal before the primaries even began.
More in general than, at this time, you. For all I know, it might be me in some unguarded moment. This place is buzzing thick with devils today. Let’s every one of us be careful not to get coaxed down the wrong garden path, or if we are to recover as soon as possible.
This is not our grandfather’s GOP and expectations have been lowered. But this is also not our grandfathers’ Democrats. They have God-booed themselves into an unholy odor; the GOP is merely worldly. Good sense says head for the best door you can see, even if you’d never put up a door like that yourself if you had a choice..
If that's an argument for the lesser of two evils
I'd recommend using a window… we need not compromise good with evil, for such always are to evil's advantage.
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