Time to Talk about the 2008 Election

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 11 September, 2004 | John Armor (CongressmanBillybob)

[Non-Sequitur]

There is nothing in the Constitution to support the government stepping in and mandating who the major parties may nominate and how they nominate them. Sorry, but this is a party and state issue.

I also think this would diminish the likelihood that Hillary! will be nominated by the Democrats in 2008.

This could also have greatly diminished the chance of Bush being nominated in 2000. Ever think of that?

[Servant of the 9]

I think it is most likely our votes would be meaningless as the pols would fix the ticket in the back rooms before a brokered convention opened.

To have any hope of avoiding establishment control, the conventions would have to begin within a week, at most, of the primary, preferably the next day.

I would modestly suggest that all future conventions be held in Las Vegas.

These days every convention makes hundreds of thousands of enemies for the party holding it, due to the disruption of life in their city.
Parties either pick a city in a state so solidly theirs they can afford to lose the votes, or in one they are certainly going to lose, so that a few more votes don't matter.

Las Vegas is a city devoted to conventions. The casinos already have more security than either convention this year could have dreamed of, and use it smoothly enough not to irritate the crowds.

There are enough Hotel Rooms, Entertainment and large meeting spaces to hold both conventions at once, which should be entertaining in itself.

So9