[cva66snipe]

When Bill & Hillary Rodham Clinton can make speeches to the right of the GOP candidates that says there is a major disconnect in the GOP. Bubba ran to the right of both Poppy and Dole. As a result he won two elections. The GOP could not even get it's act together to put up a decent challenge to Hillary in the senate race.

This is compounded by the fact or elections namely or primaries are no longer about choosing someone based on platform and record but rather superstitions like a congressman can't win POTUS. It goes from there to a beauty pageant. The only answer to end the madness with the national POTUS primaries is to make them just that. All parties contending for office of POTUS should have primary elections held the same day in all states preferably in August of election year. To the parties that don't hold primaries require that their candidate be qualified to be on state ballots by the August primary. This will stop the insane stupidity of New Years primaries and foolish antics of egomaniacs like Rush from encouraging disruption of the primary process.

I think if the primaries had been held the same day this election cycle McCain would not be in the picture even as a VP possibility.

[Gondring]

I hope you aren’t suggesting the government mandate the primary setup.

And it should be noted that even the “conservatives” running now are more just Nanny-Staters than conservatives.

[Grunthor]

“I think if the primaries had been held the same day this election cycle McCain would not be in the picture even as a VP possibility.”

We’d likely have wound up with Huckaloser. But I do agree that the primary system as it is is broken and in dire need of overhaul.