Sure didn't work that way this year for the GOP.
Sure didn't work that way this year for the GOP.In recent times, each election year has seen each party's nominee selected -- or at least subject to veto -- by its most extreme wing and then forced to try to move back to the center before the general election.
No, it sure didn't. But this is certainly true:It is questionable whether any of the three candidates still viable in the Republican or Democratic Parties would have been chosen by either party if those with a long-run stake in the future of those parties had made the decision.. . . and I think that we have to find a way to make our displeasure with that process tangible which does not result in the election of one of the two Democrats on offer.All three candidates have a lot of baggage.
I'd like to see Rush make some public talk about starting a second party - not serious enough to compromise this year's election, but enough to make Republican officials understand that they can't go on indefinitely nominating Democrats. We must have a system for selecting our nominee which respects political reality but which also promotes observance of the Constitution - as the Democratic Party declines altogether and as the Republicans sometimes consider optional.