How to avoid another RINO nominee? Eliminate primaries.

info please ^ | 2008 | Republican Party

[Brookhaven]

Iowa

Rebublican Caucus Results: Mike Huckabee 34.3%, Mitt Romney 25.3%, Fred Thompson 13.4%, John McCain 13.1%, Ron Paul 10.0%, Rudy Giuliani 3.5%, Duncan Hunter 0.4%

New Hampshire

Rebublican Primary Results: John McCain 37.2%, Mitt Romney 31.6%, Mike Huckabee 11.2%, Rudy Giuliani 8.6%, Ron Paul 7.6%, Fred Thompson 1.2%, Duncan Hunter 0.5%

Michigan

Rebublican Primary Results: Mitt Romney 38.9%, John McCain 29.7%, Mike Huckabee 16.1%, Ron Paul 6.3%, Fred Thompson 3.7%, Rudy Giuliani 2.8%, Duncan Hunter 0.3%

South Carolina

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 33.2%, Mike Huckabee 29.9%, Fred Thompson 15.7%, Mitt Romney 15.1%, Ron Paul 3.7%, Rudy Giuliani 2.1%, Duncan Hunter 0.2%. South Carolina broke Republican National Committee rules by holding an early primary, and the RNC plans to strip the state of half of itss delegates to the national convention.

Nevada

Rebublican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 51.1%, Ron Paul 13.7%, John McCain 12.7%, Mike Huckabee 8.2%, Fred Thompson 7.9%, Rudy Giuliani 4.3%, Duncan Hunter 2.0%

Florida

Rebublican Primary Results: John McCain 36%, Mitt Romney 31.1%, Rudy Giuliani 14.6%, Mike Huckabee 13.5%, Ron Paul 3.2%, Fred Thompson 1.2%, Duncan Hunter 0.1%

Maine

Rebublican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 52%, John McCain 21%, Ron Paul 19%, Mike Huckabee 6%

Alabama

Rebublican Primary Results: Mike Huckabee 41%, John McCain 37%, Mitt Romney 18%, Ron Paul 3%

Alaska

Republican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 44%, Mike Huckabee 22%, Ron Paul 17%, John McCain 16%

Arizona

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 47%, Mitt Romney 34%, Mike Huckabee 9%, Ron Paul 4%

Arkansas

Republican Primary Results: Mike Huckabee 60%, John McCain 20%, Mitt Romney 13%, Ron Paul 5%

California

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 42%, Mitt Romney 34%, Mike Huckabee 12%, Ron Paul 4%

Colorado

Republican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 59%, John McCain 19%, Mike Huckabee 13%, Ron Paul 8%

Connecticut

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 52%, Mitt Romney 33%, Mike Huckabee 7%, Ron Paul 4%

Delaware

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 45%, Mitt Romney 33%, Mike Huckabee 15%, Ron Paul 2%

Georgia

Republican Primary Results: Mike Huckabee 34%, John McCain 32%, Mitt Romney 30%, Ron Paul 3%

Illinois

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 47%, Mitt Romney 29%, Mike Huckabee 17%, Ron Paul 5%

Massachusetts

Republican Primary Results: Mitt Romney 51%, John McCain 41%, Mike Huckabee 4%, Ron Paul 3%

Minnesota

Republican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 42%, John McCain 22%, Mike Huckabee 20%, Ron Paul 16%

Missouri

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 33%, Mike Huckabee 32%, Mitt Romney 29%, Ron Paul 4%

Montana

Republican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 38%, Ron Paul 25%, John McCain 22%, Mike Huckabee 15%

New Jersey

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 55%, Mitt Romney 28%, Mike Huckabee 8%, Ron Paul 5%

New York

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 51%, Mitt Romney 28%, Mike Huckabee 11%, Ron Paul 6%

North Dakota

Republican Caucus Results: Mitt Romney 36%, John McCain 23%, Ron Paul 21%, Mike Huckabee 20%

Oklahoma

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 37%, Mike Huckabee 33%, Mitt Romney 25%, Ron Paul 3%

Tennessee

Republican Primary Results: Mike Huckabee 34%, John McCain 32%, Mitt Romney 24%, Ron Paul 6%

Utah

Republican Primary Results: Mitt Romney 90%, John McCain 5%, Ron Paul 3%, Mike Huckabee 1%

West Virginia

Republican Convention Results: Mike Huckabee 52%, Mitt Romney 47%, John McCain 1%, Ron Paul 0%

Kansas

Republican Caucus Results: Mike Huckabee 60%, John McCain 24%, Ron Paul 11%, Mitt Romney 3%

Louisiana

Republican Caucus Results: Mike Huckabee 43%, John McCain 42%, Mitt Romney 6%, Ron Paul 5%, Rudy Giuliani 1%

Washington

Republican Caucus Results: John McCain 26%, Mike Huckabee 24%, Ron Paul 21%, Mitt Romney 17%

District of Columbia

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 68%, Mike Huckabee 17%, Ron Paul 8%

Maryland

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 55%, Mike Huckabee 29%, Ron Paul 6%

Virginia

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 50%, Mike Huckabee 41%, Ron Paul 5%

Washington

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 49%, Mike Huckabee 22%, Ron Paul 7%

Wisconsin

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 55%, Mike Huckabee 37%, Ron Paul 5%

Ohio

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 60%, Mike Huckabee 31%, Ron Paul5%

Rhode Island

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 65%, Mike Huckabee 22%, Ron Paul 7%

Texas

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 51%, Mike Huckabee 38%, Ron Paul 5%

Vermont

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 72%, Mike Huckabee 14%, Ron Paul 7%

Mississippi

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 78.9%, Mike Huckabee 12.5%, Ron Paul3.9%

Pennsylvania

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 72.7%, Ron Paul 15.9%, Mike Huckabee 11.3%

Indiana

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 77.6%, Mike Huckabee 10%, Ron Paul 7.7%

North Carolina

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 73.5%, Mike Huckabee 12.1%, Ron Paul 7.8%

West Virginia

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 76%, Mike Huckabee 10.3%

Kentucky

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 72.3%, Mike Huckabee 8.2%

Oregon

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 85.1%, Ron Paul 14.9%

Puerto Rico

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 90.8%, Mike Huckabee 4.8%

New Mexico

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 85.9%, Ron Paul 14.1%

South Dakota

Republican Primary Results: John McCain 70.1%, Ron Paul 16.6%

[ansel12]

“Part of the problem is the Boomer generation, once control of the GOP is wrested away from their cold dead fingers.”

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Boomer Palin is wresting power from silent generation McCain.

[Steve Van Doorn]

That will not work. There are some RINO republicans that you we don't talk with much here.

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

[mysterio]

1. If you refuse to vote for RINOs, the RNC will stop producing them.

2. National primary day or rotating regional primaries. (the order changes each election cycle, blocks of states that are super Tuesday size.)

[calcowgirl]

Wyoming, Idaho and Nebraska are feeling very left out. ;-)

[gnarledmaw]

"Might have even been able to beat Hitlery in the general."

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.

[Ingtar]

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.

[Dixie Yooper]

Senator Stevens(R) needs to resign his seat so that Sarah can run for the Senate.

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.

[van_erwin]

Absolutely true.

A two-term governor is a much better Presidential candidate than a Senator.

Governor Palin will be an amazing candidate in 2012.

[stillonaroll]

...one of the keys to moving the Republican party back to the right is eliminating primaries and going to a complete caucus system for nominating candidates.

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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.

[bray]

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

[andy58-in-nh]

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.

[B Knotts]

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.

[ohiogrammy]

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.

[chemicalman]

Let's keep the MSM out of the primaries.

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".

[edge10]

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!

[TADSLOS]

Better yet, have ALL primary elections conducted on the same day, instead of tap dancing and cherry picking “key” states on “key” dates.

[MeanWestTexan]

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.

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[urtax$@work]

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!!