[mountainbunny]

The strongest, most unapologetic Conservative Republican in my House delegation, a freshman elected in 2006, was BEATEN this year by a liberal RINO due to rodents voting in the GOP primary (since they couldn’t elect a Dem in November). We can’t even get our own preferred nominees for general elections now. The Dems aren’t even attempting to challenge Lamar! since he’s so RINO, they don’t have to worry about him not representing THEIR interests. I’m not voting for him this year. I’m quite FED up with the RINO trash.

Would it help to tighten up the primary process so that Democrats couldn't vote in GOP primaries?

If so, isn't that a cheap, easy and dramatic change that should be made?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Closing the primaries is a start (In TN, we technically don’t have to register by party). I tend to support runoffs, which we don’t have in our state, which means the most liberal nominee has a better than average shot at winning the nomination in a field of Conservatives. May even have to reach a point where we decide in a private caucus. Of course, that doesn’t begin to address the problem of the Presidential primaries, which needs a drastic change (and the season needs to be shortened, not lengthened).