The RNC allows Democrats to participate in it’s nomination process.
Now that doesn’t mean that the RNC has total control of this, but it doesn’t lift a finger to object.
It doesn’t support Conservatives. It does support moderates/liberals. Guys like Rove and others come out and carp at sound Conservatives, and support folks like Mitt. The RNC just smiles and acts like it’s an innocent bystander.
It’s my take that the RNC is every bit as much our enemy as the Democrat party is.
I’m for closed primaries also. This year they went to proportional delegates which I think was an improvement to allow more to participate before it was over - but it still didn’t last to my state.
I’d really like to see the schedule of primaries changed.
As for what the RNC does or doesn’t support, it’s important to remember how a member of the RNC is chosen. It is not an inherited peerage; if you don’t like who is on it, you change it.
And Rove is not on the RNC. He has power because he controls a great deal of money spent in campaigns. He got that control because of his success in campaigning, he will lose it when he loses campaigns. Campaign strategists, even the most successful, survive in the coldest of meritocracies.