Think about this, hocndoc. Politicians DO make contracts, Remember the Contract with America? That is far more a real binding “Contract” than any agreement by a delegate to vote a certain way before he goes to a convention to vote his concience. Want to know why? Because the Contract with America involved consideration to the politician, the delegate vote at the convention does not.
The rest of your post is pretty much naivete. A slavish devotion to the “rules” made by the party insiders and the politicians (who really run the party) and the hired “counsel” of the parties, and the federal judiciary is what has taken the rule of the party away from the elected delegates. This seizure of control from the delegates is precisely what eventually enabled the completely out-of-control politicians and government to bring the nation to the crisis I bet we both agree America is now in.
For those of you who don’t believe in keeping your word, why believe anything you say?