Posted on 02/16/2017 4:26:22 AM PST by Kaslin
Because the state party manages the primaries to give their guy a huge advantage. By the time the election rolls around, the choices are Corker (Lamar), or an Obama.
Yes, and he will probably keep getting reelected. Sadly, that's how it works here most of the time. TN is a Republican state and some people think all Republicans are good. I hope and pray people are watching what is going on and decide to give him the boot but I don't expect it. We need a good conservative that is well known to run against him instead of a good conservative that nobody has ever heard of.
Joe Carr did pretty well against Alexander and held him (just) under 50%. If he had gotta more national conservative support (TN was largely ignored in favor of other states)......
The lack of primary runoffs really hurts, one or 2 minor candidates could ruin things even for a strong challenger by splitting the anti-incumbent vote.
Of course having a runoff hurt in Mississippi when Chris McDaniel placed first over Thad Cochran but was under 50%, although absent the minor candidate that got 1.5% , McDaniel would have won over 50% in the initial primary.
There are two options--he's a fool or a knave. Being charitable, I hope he is merely a fool.
Except in the case of MS, it was voter fraud that “carried” it for Thad, the Barnyard Cad.
What do you think of our Lt Governor? I don’t know him, but what I’ve heard from him, I’ve liked.
Great post. I’d love to see those two issues addressed.
Open primaries was how (IMO) the Republicans were planning to foist Jeb on us. They were not counting on Trump. Or maybe they were, but not in the way that it turned out. They were counting on another beatable candidate like Romney and McLame, who, if by some chance he was elected, would do the bidding of the Democrats.
I’m not sure if vote-buying is exactly “fraud”.
I can only hope McNally does half as good a job as Ron Ramsey did. He needs to hold firm against Haslam, that’s for sure.
Unfortunately, Republican leadership in the state is not in any mood to change those two serious problems at present, since it “works” for them.
By its own definition, it is. It was a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the party primary process.
I’d like it if we could clone Texas Governor Abbott.
Yes.
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