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We choose the nominee
Squawk Box ^ | 3-16-2016 | Matthew J. Belvedere

Posted on 03/16/2016 10:32:56 AM PDT by scooby321

Political parties, not voters, choose their presidential nominees, a Republican convention rules member told CNBC, a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump rolled up more big primary victories.

"The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That's the conflict here," Curly Haugland, an unbound GOP delegate from North Dakota, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday. He even questioned why primaries and caucuses are held.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop4obama; gop4themselves; gopvsamerica; gopvsvoters; voters
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To: SpinnerWebb
Ok, what is eyebrow threading?

My visual is of them embroidering eyebrows on people.

41 posted on 03/16/2016 3:21:52 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: dynoman

From Wikipedia:
Some grammarians believe that the use of the noun “Democrat” as an adjective is ungrammatical.[40] Jean Yates suggests that the use of a noun as a modifier of another noun is not grammatically incorrect in modern English in the formation of a compound noun, e.g., “shoe store,” “school bus,” “peace movement,” etc.[41] However, these tend to be cases in which there is no way to make the noun into an appropriate adjective (ie: “schooly” is not a word) or where the adjective simply doesn’t work (a “shoed store” implies that the store itself has been shoed, and while it may be peaceful, the peace movement is about promoting peace, not about its promotors simply being peaceful.) This is not the case with Democrat. Democratic, as the adjective form of Democrat, is appropriate and conveys the proper meaning when used as applied to the party itself, the voters, etcetera. The use of nouns as adjectives is part of a broader linguistic trend, according to language expert Ruth Walker, who claims, “We’re losing our inflections—the special endings we use to distinguish between adjectives and nouns, for instance. There’s a tendency to modify a noun with another noun rather than an adjective. Some may speak of “the Ukraine election” rather than ‘the Ukrainian election’ or ‘the election in Ukraine,’ for instance. It’s ‘the Iraq war’ rather than ‘the Iraqi war,’ to give another example.”[42]

In American history, many parties were named by their opponents (Federalists, Loco-Focos, Know Nothings, Populists, Dixiecrats), including the Democrats themselves, as the Federalists in the 1790s used “Democratic Party” as a term of ridicule.[43]


42 posted on 03/16/2016 3:28:01 PM PDT by Rustybucket
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Eyebrow Threading.
43 posted on 03/17/2016 6:56:03 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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