Ron Tamaccio: How SC Lawmakers “Debate” Registration By Party
TOO MANY GOP LEADERS AREN’T LIVING UP TO PARTY PLATFORM ON PRIMARY ELECTIONS || By RON TAMACCIYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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As long as the “Party Primaries” are publicly funded and held by public election boards they should remain open. If the “Parties” want to foot the bill and hold their very own private primaries then so be it.
Publicly funded? … LOL … That would be taxpayer funded, right?
How about if I give the state $100 a year to make the parties pay 100% for all primaries, period?
Most primaries make elections unnecessary. Most races are decided at the primary level. Used to be all the races were decided in the Democratic Primary. Turn the clock back 30 years, and you are saying a die-hard “registered” Republican would not be able to cast a meaningful ballot in this state. Now, the reverse is true.
Sorry. Don’t agree.
Until we have a valid two-party system here, we need open primaries.
Of course, it could be worse, with no primaries, but candidates chosen in convention.
Closed primaries in Kentucky resulted in many “DINOs” registering as Democrats in order to vote for the worst candidate, then pulling the R lever on General Election day.
An open primary may be the only way to get rid of a Republican unresponsive to his/her district, since so many hit the R button in the General with no thought.
That was not a bad thing in the long run. Exposure of this obvious fraud was all over the Internet … And Kentucky has taken steps to cull the lists of bono-fida voters.
Now even the rinos have a chance.
Out here in Taxifornia we no longer even have that choice: best two win the primaries, then both democrats have to slug it out = not!
“Engaged citizens are the key to success. Working alongside these
courageous legislators, their energy and enthusiasm will overcome the
obstacles they are certain to face”
“and once we are all eating ice cream & losing weight in Candyland, we’ll ride our Pegasus to the voting booths where Santa will check the rolls to make sure everyone is of the right mindset before deciding who to vote for.”
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.” – Bloody Joe Stalin, who murdered more than 40 Million of his own … because the party kept re-electing him.
As long as no one votes in BOTH primaries, I honestly don’t see what the problem is. The vast majority of offices do not have a competitive general election in this state. The primary IS the general election.
Open primaries have been the norm since at LEAST the 1970’s for both parties. The GOP went from being small enough to met in a phone booth, to being the 3rd or 4th most Republican state in the union, while completely under open primaries. What are they afraid of?
Independents have the right to participate in elections and have an impact on government. In this state one party or the other has been thoroughly dominate since at least the Civil War, with the lone exception being about a 15 year transitional period in the 1980’s-’90s.
This is all about some very Right Wing Republicans who have claimed for a number of years that “RINOS” or fuzzy “Independents” and even Democrats have skewered the nominating process and kept “real” Republicans from selecting “real” conservatives as their candidates.
The problem is the present legislators ,who would have to make this change ,are always going to be loathe to fiddle with their electoraes among whom they have been successful.
Accordingly,the chances of this being adopted are remote.
Anyway why squawk ?
After all
It’s a Great Day in SC!
or hey, heres an idea. why not allow everyone to vote in every primary, and you vote for the candidate that best represents you and your beliefs, instead of voting against the person you think can beat the other parties sweetheart
You are 100 PERCENT RIGHT..That is not common on this FITS site.
Also: I have a feeling that as the country moves right, in response to the disaster known as Obama and the Democrat Party…Elected Republicans will be FORCED back to the GOP Platform…
There will be NO NEED for a 3rd Party..and the GOP will win over and over again…if it would stick to the Platform, and not seep over to the Democrat (Failed) way of thinking…
Closed primaries are a GOOD idea.Liberals – as you see w/ FITS – will promote the weakest Republican…because they can manipulate them toward bad leftwing ideas…
Republicans are not really a fan of voting in general. The fewer the number of people who can vote the better as far as they are concerned. This is the case whether we are talking about the primary or the general election. Anything they can do to suppress voter turn out in the demographics that don’t benefit them, is fair game. Especially if it keeps blacks and Hispanics from voting.
What this wing nut is saying that the current crop of Libertarians and other malcontents masquerading as Republicans can’t win on their own, so there must be something wrong with the system. What they refuse to accept is that they are a small minority and no one really cares what they, or Ron Paul think.