I had assumed the worst, but shifting to a straight primary without a convention is probably a good thing, right?
I hope you’re having a good laugh at my expense!
You only quoted the concerns of ‘some’.
Only if the conservatives can win it but the GOPe sees a primary as an opportunity to marshal their forces to win the contests.
Flood the primary contests with big bank and big business money for starters and probably some new tactics like bringing Democrats into the GOP with voter registrations drives or old ones like creating primary rules like they did for POTUS back in 2012.
The GOPe required so large a number of signatures it ended up being Ron Paul versus Mitt Romney with other candidates shut out in the 2012 POTUS primary.
This year’s decision to go proportional delegates in VA on the POTUS primary was also part of a strategy to dilute any conservative support and hopefully spread a majority out among the RINO’s and fake conservatives.
The convention of committed conservatives format in VA has given the GOP candidates who are conservative over the years like Ollie North for US Senate or Mike Farris for Lt. Governor and so on.
We won against Cantor in a primary.
I’d say we have a better chance this way.