Posted on 03/10/2007 8:03:32 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Thanks, Dan. Given all of the recent behind-closed-doors changes from the liberal bunch, I have become skeptical of most every move.
I sure hope this one doesn't bite us in the end.
I can only dream that Independents could vote in California primary elections. Most Independents I know are disgruntled conservatives who left the Republican Party for being too wish-washy, wimpy, spineless and buddy-buddy with the liberals. I figure the only way to get Republicans worth a damn and not liberals like Arnold Scwartzenegger is to let the right-leaning Independents vote int he primaries. But then, I think California is a lost cause anyway, doomed to a full-blown Socialst hell, so what do I know?
Just like me!!!
It means you support a particular platform, and have enough courage in your convictions to publicly declare it. This, in turn, entitles you a say in whom should be the standard bearer in the promotion of that platform.
It is not, as Duf would have it, a wishy washy, come one come all bandwagon to coronate a pop star, who then defines the platform afterward, or ignores it completely. But too many people have lost sight of the fact that the purpose of a political party is to serve the needs of its members, and not for the members to serve as mindless drones for the GOP leadership.
A court ruling, saying that Parties get to decide whom they allow to vote for Party candidacy, and not just any Tom, Dick or Jane who wants to play.
I used to live in Becerra's district. The Reps never even ran a candidate against him. That means, in an open primary, Becerra supporters were safe in voting in Rep primaries in ways that were contrary to Rep interests, because their guy was safe.
Well, I got that but why?
Well, I got that but why?
Because open primaries let the opposition sabotage your Party's selection of candidate. When they have an unopposed primary candidate, as Gore and Boxer were in 2000, the Dem operatives and faithful can safely ignore their own primary, and use their votes to saddle Reps with unrepresentative candidates, or to water down grass movement groundswells. People like Duf welcome that, because it skews the Party leftward, where he has been trying to drag it for years.
Because open primaries let the opposition sabotage your Party's selection of candidate. When they have an unopposed primary candidate, as Gore and Boxer were in 2000, the Dem operatives and faithful can safely ignore their own primary, and use their votes to saddle Reps with unrepresentative candidates, or to water down grass movement groundswells. People like Duf welcome that, because it skews the Party leftward, where he has been trying to drag it for years.
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