[uncitizen]

True. But now they’re telling us straight up that they will override the primaries to nominate either Jeb/Mitt/Christie. The primaries will be useless, meaningless exercise. Even if Ted Cruz won all the primaries, They will not accept him.

[JRandomFreeper]

Open primaries and allowing liberal states to have primaries first has pretty much made of joke of republican primaries for a couple of presidential election cycles, if not longer.

/johnny

[EternalVigilance]

The last two presidential primaries have been, as you say, useless, meaningless exercises.

The sum total accomplished by all of that conservative expenditure of time, energy and money was ZERO.

[EternalVigilance]

And the deck is stacked for ‘16 even more thoroughly than in ‘08 and ‘12.

The Romney Republicans crushed everyone in their path in terms of party control.

For example, here in my state of Iowa, with its first in the nation caucus, they control the party lock, stock and barrel.

And that was on top of the party rules they had already put in place which guarantee their ascendancy.

Barring a miracle, that is.