Dan said:
“Independents and Democrats in states with open primaries are principally to blame; secondarily are the RINOs on blue states. How is it fair that people that are NOT republicans get to choose the GOP candidates? Fair elections my foot!”
You have a point here, however as I understand it the Republicans are the ones who decide how they will run their primaries in each state. If we don’t like the rules, we have the opportunity to change them before the next election. However, we have to remember that if we get too selective in who vote in the primaries, we might get candidates who we conservatives believe are perfect but who aren’t appealing to the majority of the country.
So far as I can tell, one of the problems in the elections was that at the end there were three people running and no one consistently received the majority of the votes since they were split three ways. I believe those people who are not happy with the results this time need to turn their energy in a positive direction and come up with a plan to avoid splitting the conservative votes between the Christian conservatives who voted more for the Huckster and those fiscal conservatives who went more for Romney. It seems that if the Huckster had given up when it was apparent he wouldn’t win perhaps people would have felt better with a head to head match up between Romney and McCain. However, I really don’t know how you can rig things to make a difference next time. That is a good project for those who are unhappy with the results of the primaries this time.
The only problem with the election I saw was the “winner takes all” strategy. Perhaps with more time Romney could have made himself better known to the electorate. He is clearly a brilliant man but it is my understanding that his public record is as liberal if not more liberal than McCain’s. Incidentally, how can those who sat out the recent congressional election and plan to sit out this presidential election call other people RINOs? I don’t follow the logic here. Some people work their hearts out for the Republican party to push the conservative agends even when things don’t go exactly their way and some people sit out elections. How can those who don’t vote claim to be the true Republicans or the true conservatives?
