The only way to protect the party from another McCain type RINO being foisted upon us is to close the primaries and reconfigure the calendar for them by eliminated the over-whelming influence of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Iowa: you can’t win iowa without promising ethanol subsidies. McCain didn’t care. He wasn’t going to promise the subsidies, he gave up Iowa and still managed to win the primary. That was a pretty big risk. If romney won Iowa instead of huckabee (they were both for subsidies), his momentum going into NH would’ve been unstoppable and mccain wouldn’t get anywhere. So I give mccain a lot of respect just for that.