"The political establishment does not allow non political insiders to run using this obscure law because most people don't know about it at all, and it's just unfair," Rust said.It seems rather undemocratic to prohibit candidates from running for office. If Rust is indeed a "phony", the proper way to prevent him from winning is to defeat him at the ballot box. Banning rival political parties and candidates is the kind of thing advocated by authoritarian regimes such as the Soviet Union and the Democrat Party.
BS.
He’s free to run as an independent or get a sign off from the political party leadership to represent THE POLITICAL PARTY in the PRIMARY.
This isn’t the general election - this is the POLITICAL PRIMARY and he wants to party hop to spoil the ballot.
If he’s sincere than he should have no problem getting the sign off from political leadership - but he’s not. So he’s free to run as a Democrat or just as an independent.
Yeah, I disagree. I’ve been a registered Republican since I turned 18. I have NEVER voted in a Democrat primary, nor desired to.
Rust wants to be a Richard Lugar Republican, but his past tendencies to help out his Democrat buddies is getting in the way.
Although I see your point, couldn’t he run as a third-party candidate or as an independent?
Why does he have a right to tell the GOP, DNC, or even the CPUSA for that matter, that they MUST allow him to run in their party?
The right to pick and choose who you want to represent your association should be up to the association, not just whoever wants to walk in and maybe upset the apple cart.
Telling the party they MUST accept him as a party to their party seems pretty dang “authoritarian”; kind of like telling girls they MUST accept boys in their dressing rooms and showers.