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.
“Sure didn’t work that way this year for the GOP.”
Oh, I don’t know. I’d say the the most extreme wing of the GOP is its left wing. Its right wing barely goes as far right as the center.