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Why the Open Primary is Worse Than Bad
politicalvanguard.com ^ | 2/24/09 | Tom Del Beccaro

Posted on 02/24/2009 9:13:03 AM PST by usflagwaver

It is said, philosophically, that there are no new thoughts, no unexplored concepts – just new ways of expressing what has been previously thought. That is the historical equivalent of saying that History repeats itself only in different detail.

You see, for nearly as long as there has been representative government, people have gravitated toward factions or parties. We know England once had Whigs and Tories and is now dominated by a Labour Party and a Conservative Party. For the pre-Renaissance Florentines, there were the Guelfs and the Ghibellines. In time, the Ghibellines were driven out and the city was dominated by the Guelfs who, unable to live with success, internally feuded and brought partisanship to a new height with the formation of White Guelfs and their sworn adversaries: the Black Guelfs - so stark can be the differences of partisanship.

In the United States, George Washington eschewed party affiliation but soon Federalists did battle with the Democrat-Republican Party (yes a single party of that name). Later, National Republicans did battle with Andrew Jackson’s Democrat Party, before the National Republicans gave way to the Whigs and, in time, the Whigs would give way to the Republican Party we know today. No different were those natural tendencies of people to associate in adversarial ways than is the manner of Yankee and Red Sox fans today.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: open; primary

1 posted on 02/24/2009 9:13:04 AM PST by usflagwaver
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To: usflagwaver

2 words. John McCain.


2 posted on 02/24/2009 9:15:29 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: usflagwaver

You had me at John McCain


3 posted on 02/24/2009 9:18:18 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: pgkdan

I was just gonna post a picture of Comrade Juan McNuts, but you beat me to the punch line.


4 posted on 02/24/2009 9:20:08 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about Zimbabwe money.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Some goofball will be around here any second lecturing us on how we would have been better off with McCain and shouldn't diss him.

What they don't see is he was a doomed candidate, a loser from the beginning, and the second coming of Bob Dole.

5 posted on 02/24/2009 9:24:19 AM PST by Luke21
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To: pgkdan

There was no republican who was going to beat Obama and his billion dollar war chest with the media in his pocket and the economy tanking.

McCain was our best candidate against Obama and he did remarkably well.

The proof is that McCain ran well ahead of most congressional republicans.

Oh in case you did not notice, the republicans got slaughtered at every level, including state and local elections.

McCain was the best we had.


6 posted on 02/24/2009 9:26:47 AM PST by staytrue (YES WE CAN, (everyone should get in the practice of saying it, it will soon be mandatory))
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To: usflagwaver
This is about the movement in California to move to an open primary, which will result in two Democrats running in all races.

-PJ

7 posted on 02/24/2009 9:27:54 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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To: staytrue
McCain was the best we had.

You have GOT to be kidding!

8 posted on 02/24/2009 9:33:25 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: staytrue
McCain was our best candidate against Obama and he did remarkably well.

Palin did well, saving McCain from suffering the landslide defeat he deserved.

9 posted on 02/24/2009 9:53:10 AM PST by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: staytrue

Bull sh*t. Duncan Hunter was twice as principled and a hell of a lot more articulate than McIdiot. He would have wiped the floor with Zero in the debates instead of trying to find common ground with him and point out similarities like McQueeg did.


10 posted on 02/24/2009 10:40:17 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant)
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