no it is violating the sanctity of the voting citizens.
Why bother with primaries if some party sleaze will just ignore the vote.
Cruz is too stupid (arrogant) to understand he is being used and even if he wins, he will be the designated loser ala McCain, Romney, Dole.
So do you also thik the electoral college violates the sanctity of voting citizens ?
Party primaries are not organized according to any common rule, people who vote in them are not voting as citizens but rather as party members, which more than 50% of the time is essentially a fraud.
Each party, NOT the "voters", get to choose the nominee who represents them best. The idea that in New Hampshire (for example) I can change my party registration on the way in to vote, and change it back on the way out, eliminates any "sanctity" associated with the act of voting.
The party convention is not, despite appearances, a representative body. Since the practice of assigning delegate seats through some sort of process where idiots with minimal or no connection to the party vote, after being pulverized by phony "debates" and paid advertising, the results have been less than spectacular.
If the idea of political parties is going to survive (and history tells us that it won't) - but if parties are to survive, reform is necessary.
Two reforms, in particular, are vital:
1) Return to the 2/3 rule. A nominee with 49% opposition among the most committed party men is going to lose, all things being equal. Force the factions to come together at the convention and choose a nominee with broad support.
2) If primary elections are used to choose delegates, require evidence of serious and prolonged party activism to enfranchise an elector. Registration for at least five years, donations over those five years of >$1000 or > 100 hours of volunteer work over that time, for example.
If the parties die, it's fine with me. As we go increasingly fascist, it's probably inevitable,
But the idea that "the sanctity of voting citizens" is how people get nominated is just ridiculous.
he will be the designated loser ala McCain, Romney, Dole.
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BINGO!
If Cruz is doing that it sounds a lot like tyranny to me, and Levin practically copulates with him on air all night during his shoe.
I’m getting disgusted. TED is the Washington Cartel evidently.
Cruz won’t win. When push comes to shove Trump who wrote the Art of the Deal will cut a deal with Ksick for his 143 delegates. That should easily put Trump over the line. I can live with Ksick as VP.