Consensus of Freeper Opinion = Consensus of Center-to-Right Opinion in America at Large
There are millions of Americans out there who have no problem at all with a Romney or Huckabee.
If such a candidate wins the nomination (helped by the front-loaded GOP primary system with crossover voting in purple states)
... all of FR will be looking at itself a la Pauline Kael's apocryphal 1972 comment about Nixon...."How could Romney have won the nomination? Nobody I knew voted for him!!"
first of all who is MD???
now about the primary system.
it looks like it needs a major overhaul.
I had no choice of people like Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson when the primary season hit NY State...they were gone by that time...even NYs own RINO Rudy was not available by the time we got our primary....
first off we need all primaries on the same day...like the general election. next...eliminate those archaeic Caucuses (cauci?) and last as you put so well, the whole purple state thing where anyone can vote in a primary even if you are not registered with the party being voted on.
the problem with changing any of these things is the states rights issues....so I do not see these changing any time soon.