Posted on 11/05/2008 11:44:10 AM PST by Brookhaven
“Part of the problem is the Boomer generation, once control of the GOP is wrested away from their cold dead fingers.”
Boomer Palin is wresting power from silent generation McCain.
What happened in the Case with McCain is he was the primary RINO and the RINO republicans liked him but we as true conservatives split our vote.
We lost using the same mentality as the third party vote and got stuck with McCain
Wyoming, Idaho and Nebraska are feeling very left out. ;-)
There is no reason other than McVains refusal to run that we lost to BO. The fact that Mc was almost totally absent or off message and still managed to win any states is shocking.
LOL - since a RINO won the majority of the caucii, I don’t see much difference. Closed primaries with rules about 6 months in the party as used to exist seems a better option to me.
She needs to stay right where she is until 2012. If she became a Senator, within a year she would become an unelectable Katherine Harris. There is no future for Republican Senators right now. After we clean house, maybe, but not now.
Absolutely true.
A two-term governor is a much better Presidential candidate than a Senator.
Governor Palin will be an amazing candidate in 2012.
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A nationwide caucus system is very unlikely to ever be implemented. Much easier would be a closed primary, where only registered Republicans would be eligible to vote in the Republican primary.
This would eliminate non-conservative crossover voters, and would also have the immediate benefit of preventing most 0bama supporters from voting in the Republican primaries. 0 will run unopposed in the DemonRat primaries, thus leaving the Rats free to vote for a RINO or other weak R in the R primaries.
Move the TX primary to the first or second week. That will eliminate Boston North from picking our candidate.
Pray for W, Gov Palin and Our Troops
I would prefer a system of five or six regional primaries, beginning no earlier than January of an election year, and ending in May or June. And *no* debates until the nominations are sewn up and conventions held. That way, the candidates can save travel time and expenses by avoiding multiple cross-country trips, and as used to be the case before the current mess, people would have a chance to get to know the candidates in a more meaningful way over a period of months, rather than in a few weeks of frenzied primaries, moronic media coverage, and stultifyingly stupid 12-party debates.
Agreed. The first step should be to not award any delegates for open primaries; in state which have them, they should be replaced entirely with caucuses.
Then, do the same for all primaries.
I AGREE, we voted for Mitt even though we had been told McCain was our candidate. Why even bother when the dates are all over the map. Same day would give us all an equal chance to pick our candidate.
Let the people decide who would be best for the party's cause by providing candidates experiences and views.
The party has our registration cards, so they can mail the info.
Don't let the MSM "parade" any candidate they want as being the "one".
How about have the order of Primaries be set by highest percentage Republican votes in the general to the lowest.
There is now way in heck Iowa and New Hampshire should be setting the Republican agenda!
Better yet, have ALL primary elections conducted on the same day, instead of tap dancing and cherry picking “key” states on “key” dates.
No, a one-shot primary gives too much power to the national media -— the MSM picked Rudy, if you recall.
The grueling primary season does two things: (1) vets the candidates and (2) defuses the MSM power.
The system is fine — the power to the pathetic liberal states must be stopped.
We win when we pick a conservative.
If anything we need to front load with conservative “fly over states”.
If NH wants to be first then allow them to start ONE SECOND before all the other states.
In Missouri we can walk in and delcare
a ballot for either party. We are always fighting
a democrat incursion every primary election.
Forgive my ignorance,
Who is the person in charge of Republican Party ?
I only hear that H Dean is/was party chair for Dems.,
but never hear the Republican counterpart.
How & when is the primary process changed??
I think this is an excellant thread!!
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