The liberals who control the GOP want you to think having the nominee decided before the convention is a good thing. But that way, the reality is, the nominee is decided by manipulation of primary rules and attack ads funded by big-money interests (which are the GOP liberal establishment interests).
The result of the nominees being decided in the GOP-e way has been - Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain - and the vice-presidential nominees are a sop to conservative base.
The only chance for the conservatives is for the convention system to be made to work as designed - that is, for delegates to be elected as representatives of their districts and go to the convention with the latitude to exercise their best judgement in selecting a ticket to represent the party in the general election.
THAT is the only chance. JMHO.
——The liberals who control the GOP want you to think having the nominee decided before the convention is a good thing. But that way, the reality is, the nominee is decided by manipulation of primary rules and attack ads funded by big-money interests (which are the GOP liberal establishment interests).
The result of the nominees being decided in the GOP-e way has been - Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain - and the vice-presidential nominees are a sop to conservative base.-——
Yes! Let’s go to a brokered convention. Otherwise, it’s Romney.
To expand on your point, what’s been happening is that the “smoke-filled room” takes place five years before the election, when the moneyed interests line up behind the establishment’s choice. That’s when the election is settled. The primary elections are for show.
The Left knows this, which is why they’ve been keying on Romney for years, as in their campaign against the 1%.