[rightwingintelligentsia]

its time for the GOP to front-load the whole freaking process into one date.

I've been saying this for a while now. It would remove the influence of obscure states from determining the nominee, not render voters in late primary states virtually irrelevant (like my state of PA), and save a boatload of money and aggravation.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

its time for the GOP to front-load the whole freaking process into one date.

Amen to that brother...

[deport]

It’s time for the nuclear option — its time for the GOP to front-load the whole freaking process into one date. Make every state vote on exactly the same day.

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We’ll we can’t know the outcome of such a senario had this been the case this time. But I submit that Guiliani may have well been the nominee if this one day senario was the process that had been used this time. It’s for damn sure those down in the 1% ranks wouldn’t have been able to compete national due to lack of funding..... I think had this been in place this time it still would have been fought out between Romney, McCain and Guiliani. Speculation is fun but we’ll never know.

The time to make this process change is at the nominating comvention this fall. That is when the process for the 2012 primary will be adopted. But I don’t see that as likely this fall.

[pepsionice]

While the establishment will disagree with me...I’d like to suggest a simple solution...where 50 governors meet a year prior to the primary season (no caucuses anymore)...and pull numbers. We start a 3-day voting affair across the nation on the first Tuesday of Feb....with ten states voting. The second day would be twenty states. And the third day...the final twenty. The 50 governors would pull numbers out of a hat and accept their position in the polling situation.

We are standing here....a week before Super-Tuesday...with only two candidates for either party still in the running...which is a pretty fair joke. The number of debates held since July of last year...the number of position changes on various topics....all time wasted in my humble opinion. The massive cash apparatus that was in full-swing....a joke. The number of idiots soaking the candidates for cash....a joke. The idea of Iowa and New Hampshire shape-shifting the entire election....a joke.

I’m probably out of the main-stream...and neither party will appreciate my comments. But I think we are no longer living in 1895 and have folks running around on trains to campaign. Its not necessary to give us twelve debates...or even six debates.

I’ll even add this to my solution...I don’t see any logical reason to wait till July or August for the party convention. I’m a bold-thinker....why not open up a stadium on the first week of May....bring folks in for three days....preferably over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday....and kinda wrap things up. I don’t need some stupid network idiot wasting five nights of my time....analyzing what this dimwit said or that dimwit said. Its like some NCAA football conference playoff season...that goes on forever...and the winner....is really a loser.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Of course by doing that you preclude any late candidate you might want.
Consider if the primary season were stretched out like it used to be. At this point a Newt Gingrich could get in and that would transform the whole race.
As it is now unless you got in early last year and have the money you can’t do anything and the whole front loaded primary season keeps others from getting in that may be better.
No better example than this year’s lackluster group to chose from.

[TheThirdRuffian]

“its time for the GOP to front-load the whole freaking process into one date.”

That would only help “national canidates” -— i.e. MSM RINO darlings, like Rudy.

The key would be to move the primaries of TX, OK, and LA to the “the day before NH.” It’s a solid southwest block that could not be ignored.