LOL
Yes, and Alice in Wonderland is simply a real life accounting of a real life event.
Cruz at best has to defeat the early primary system that since 1996 has prevented any Conservative candidate from getting the Republican nomination.
You have chosen to look at this from the Republican point of view. You presented it somewhat decently. Do you think a candidate should have rights at all?
What if Trump goes to a Republican debate and they deny him participation? Should they then be able to say, “Well, just too late. You already decided you were one of us, and we don’t want you.”
Shouldn’t he have recourse? According to your comments, it appears you don’t think so.
I disagree.
As I said earlier, I am really not sure if such laws would pass constitutional muster. I know these laws are on the books in several places, but I don’t know enough about whether and what the outcome of challenges were.
A political party is just that. It is a collection of like minded people working together towards shared goals via the electoral process. The Republican party isn’t enshrined in the constitution. If you wish to join it, the bare minimum it should require is you support it’s nominees. If you can’t do that, don’t join. Simple as that.
Trump has the resources and support right now to create yet another 3rd party and should be able to get on the ballot in most, if not all, states. Let him do that. The GOP should simply call his bluff. Openly yammering about using leverage against a party that is, like it or not, allowing you to use its infrastructure to run for office is obnoxious and I don’t see why any political party would stand for it.
Lets say the GOP was blown up and some other party rose to become the 2nd leg of our 2 party system. And lets say it started off as a group of conservatives with the intent of it being a more conservative party. How would you feel if all the non-Democrat voters, which would include all the same GOPe, RINO and “moderates” joined, became the majority of this new party yet again and started running establishment type candidates in your fresh new party? Do you feel you’d have a right to expect some level of purity in the new party? Do you feel the new conservative party should pointedly refuse to accept former RINO’s and establishment types as candidates? Do you think the new party, designed to be more conservative, should have the right to screen out those that do not stand for it’s basic beliefs?
To be honest, one of my biggest gripes is that our system is designed as a winner take all 2 party system with no opportunity for coalitions. I know we all revere the founding fathers, but personally I’d rather see multiple parties and the ability to form coalitions. Can you imagine how refreshing it would be to be able to go to the ballot box every election and vote for a party/candidate you actually believe in and LIKE - as opposed to this current system where we are basically condemned to voting for the lesser of 2 evils all the way up and down the ballot because we essentially have only 2 viable options?
Sorry about the long post. Just thinking out loud a little bit. I know we disagree about Trump, but probably don’t on 90% of the issues.