This decision is absurd. Who is "the party" if not the group of citizens who have associated themselves for the common enterprise of advocating a certain platform? And since Republican voters are indeed "the party," why can't they decide for themselves whether a particular candidate should be the party's nominee? I trust the voters a lot more than a few party bigwigs when it comes to determining who is or isn't a Republican.
I think Alabamians should be worried that the state GOP will try to limit their choices in future statewide or congressional races by deciding that so-and-so is not a Republican because he or she didn't kiss the party chairman's ass or didn't support Candidate X's campaign. But if the AL GOP tries to keep Judge Roy Moore off the GOP gubernatorial ballot, all it would do is cause hundreds of thousands of Alabamians to leave the GOP and support an independent candidacy by Moore, which would probably result in the Democrat winning. The correct course of action is clear: Let the Republican primary voters decide.
Because we're trying to remove the Democratic Party from existence. If we continue the progress we've been making for the last 10 years, then it is reasonabily feasible that Alabama could be back under the one party system by 2020. Moore kind of threatens that.
The officers duly elected or appointed.Allowing the "people" to run the party would result in chaos,"the confusion of a multitude".
You don't do that by telling voters that they are not allowed to vote for the candidates they like.
They're not telling ANYONE that they can't vote for whomever they please.It's just that the party gets to pick it's standard bearer.Let McGinley run on another ticket.
We have the same problem in California,where the GOP threw it's weight behind Schwarzenegger,figuring he stood a better chance than McClintock.So now my money goes to individual candidates,I will not send money to a party.
Just let the GOP primary voters nominate their favorite candidate
The primary voters vote for candidates who have already been nominated,by the party.