[GenXteacher]

Closed primaries are the way to go.

[Resettozero]

Closed primaries are the way to go.

That sounds like the easy fix but how would non-Republicans be excluded from registering as Republicans, which is what they do now?

[so_real]

Disagree ... Rather than trying to close the primaries, and discouraging participation, how about going the other way?

Why not have a single primary election for all interested candidates from all parties on the same day? Then you dip your thumb in the ink and you don't get to vote again for the rest of the day. The winner of each political party gets their name on the general election ballot.

When given the opportunity, the liberals will cast their votes for liberals. They don't play by any rules; so making more rules doesn't really help. For every primary, they have an opportunity to vote for a liberal, and so they do. It does not matter if it is "our" primary or "theres". It does not matter if it s a "closed" primary or an "open" primary. They don't care. It's an opportunity to vote for a liberal, and they will find the means to do so.

The trick, then, becomes to reduce their actions to a single choice -- waste their vote on a liberal "republican", or vote for the liberal "democrat" they want to see in the White House.

Reducing the opportunity for crime is more effective than increasing the opportunity for crime while trying to police the criminal activity expected.