Isn't there a reason for party primaries?
they want the primary process short circuited - by "litmus testing" away these candidates.
hey, maybe a Brownback/Katherine Harris ticket could win, don't you think?
Yes, it's to con the rank-and-file into believing that the candidate of their party is the one most of the rank-and-file wanted as their candidate.
In reality, the hidden powers that give us Bushes and Doles and more Bushes and more Doles can buy up the best advisors, the best consultants and the biggest advertising, access to the GOP fundraising and GOP mailing/phone lists in order to turn the process into one year-long coronation.
The grassroots *can* halt the coronation but only at the risk of a divided party that will probably lose in November.
Remember Bret Schundler in New Jersey? He got the GOP nomination for New Jersey governor in 2001 - about as true a conservative as you'll find in New Jersey. He upset the Rove -anointed RINO and the Bushies promptly took their ball and went home rather than help the candidate the grassroots chose. Schundler, of course, lost with no national support.
They then did the same thing when their handpicked RINO didn't win the primary in California a year later. And you saw how they savaged Katherine Harris from the beginning of her senate bid.
From these ranks come the people who might run for president. See how this works? Or doesn't work?
There are lots of reasons. One of them is to give liberals in open-primary states an opportunity to vote for Republicans like McCain in order to weaken conservative turn-out in the election. This is exactly what they tried to do the last time McCain threw his hat into the presidential primaries. There is a reason the media fawns on McCain.
Yes.
BTTT
Yes. Its the MSM's plot to destroy Caucuses and the party Grass Roots. Only Big Money and Big Media then rules...and guess who has that...