“Rules or not, it is fundamentally dishonest and morally bankrupt to consider this. Rules or not, it is undemocratic, and it is also something far far worse and patently obvious to anyone with a functioning brain! What is that? It is illogical. If you actually want to win the general election, you don’t nominate someone not capable of getting the votes in the primary when the only voters are (R)+(C).”
Well, things may have been different in 1860, but Lincoln won under the circumstances you listed above. Different topic if Lincoln was a good president or not.
Well, things may have been different in 1860, but Lincoln won under the circumstances you listed above. Different topic if Lincoln was a good president or not.
Wait, what? Things may have been different? There weren't even primaries yet ( that I can recall ). That means no elected delegates. They probably cast ballots amongst themselves until they picked him.
That is NOT a good comparison, in fact what they are plotting now is a return to the original smokey backroom. That would have been their 2nd convention IIRC when they picked Lincoln, and circumstances were way different.
You gotta do better than that.