Posted on 01/16/2017 5:01:04 AM PST by NYer
Winning the primary isn’t hijacking it. You’re saying on one hand the Constitution doesn’t mention political parties and on the other hand you’re saying Sanders not being a Democrat is a problem. The author is pointing out the hypocrisy of the Democrats.
. . . If anything, the rigging of the Democratic primary shows why an open nomination system may not even be a good thing. Bernie Sanders isn't even a registered Democrat ... so why would anyone expect the Democrat Party leadership NOT to do whatever is necessary to keep him from hijacking their nomination process to get on the Democrat Party ballot line in a presidential election?
You’re right. And by the same logic, Trump should not have been on the Republican primary ballot.But see my #19 to see the real problem.
>> her nomination was ... not illegal.
There is a big difference between illegal and illegitimate. Elections under communist regimes are wholly legal, and everyone, who knows what’s good for them, votes for the approved communist candidate. Is that legitimate?
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I agree with you on that.
Political parties have no more of a right to nominate a candidate than your local country club.
They can do it by any means even if it means putting all their candidates on a spinning wheel and spinnnin it and supporting the one whose name comes up.
There is nothing sacred about political parties and their candidates, or how they are nominated. -Tom
I could tell you about AdBlocker, but I'm sure you've heard it a hundred times.
It's time to install it, or shut up and quit complaining.
It turns out that, far more sinister than the alleged Russian hacking of the election, is the far-left media’s intervention into the election. The mainstream media, aka: the democratic party “owned” media, is what got Hillary as far as she did, and without that media, Hillary would never have even been nominated and perhaps not even been allowed to run in the primaries.
That same far-left/liberal media, is what also got the empty-suit, America-hating communist into the White House.
Comparing what the Russians might have done with what the biased left-wing media has done, the Russians come out as angels, since, if they did leak any info to Americans, that info has turned out to be very truthful, and what the left-wing media has done is totally false and damaging to democracy. A media that is controlled by liberals is far more damaging than foreigners that can only leak the truth and does not control the voters.
That's like telling me I should bring a set of binoculars to a movie theater if all of the seats are 200 yards away from the screen. No, Mr. Movie Theater Owner -- you need to build a better movie theater if you want me to patronize it.
For me it’s a matter of principle too.
I shouldn’t have to listen to a bunch of people kvetching to us when they should be sending their complaints to Briet Bart.
There’s a solution, and most of us enacted it against Briet Bart and endless other sites too.
You don’t like the solution?
Not my problem and I don’t want to hear endless whining.
You don’t have to hear endless whining. I didn’t complain to you. I don’t know why you’d care what I post to someone else.
Gee, this is becoming endless.
Yes, I know you were posting to someone else, but it’s an open board so everyone, including me, sees it.
I get irritated when people won’t help themselves, but have to make a big fuss over something that everyone else figured out.
You will have the last word if you think a response is necessary.
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