The reason "that's the way it's always been" doesn't fly is that the way it's always been is that the GOPe candidate always wrapped it up after Super Tuesday, or shortly after, so that the actual delegate selection process was pro forma, it didn't really matter.
Now that we have a true electoral contest, we are seeing the flaws in the process, meaning we are seeing all the hidden back-doors that were always there but never used, that are being used now to undermine the will of the voters because the GOPe finally lost at the ballot box.
That's what has the people so angry. It's not that the rules were always there, it's that the rules are designed keep the establishment in power.
-PJ
And it is coming back to haunt the GOPe bigtime.
In one of the elections of 2008 or 12 or 04, I posted a comment about the GOP’s Superdelegates.
Someone posted back in an irate manner that the GOP didn’t have Superdelegates. Only the Dem party did. Those extra delegates were given to governors and state party faithfuls and such, but they weren’t Super.
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A non-elected delegate who can vote for any candidate they chose does sort of seem to be a Super delegate, to me.
It’s been that way since political parties were formed and deals were cut in whiskey-soaked, smokey backrooms. It’s nothing new. What’s comical is the feigned ‘outrage’ from the candidates and voters who claim they didn’t know it.
So why didn’t DT fight to change the tax loopholes before?