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wait a minute... the GOP itself can make the rule to change their primaries to ‘closed’??????

I thought it was somethign that HAD TO BE out of their control (controlled by individual states)

You mean THEY HAVE A CHOICE AND DONT STOP THIS?????

There's even a GOP-E group that is trying to OPEN some closed primaries, so more moderates can get the primary, of course.

/johnny

Oh yes and it has been that way for some time. The GOP could just say, if you have a closed primary, you get to have 100% of your delegates. If you have an open primary, you only get 50% of your delegates.

One election/primary cycle would be all it takes to return the GOP back to conservatives. But conservatives are not in power right now at the GOP.

There was a SCOTUS decision in 1972 in a case where leftist McGovern Demonrats challenged then Mayor Daley's delegation to the Demonrat National convention. In essence, SCOTUS ruled in favor of the party to control and impose its own rules against any governmental attempt to control a party's rules UNLESS the rules were designed to racially exclude blacks (which had been disallowed by an earlier SCOTUS decision against a racially exclusive Alabama Democrat primary scheme).

That said, there SHOULD be a national party rule requiring any and all GOP primary voters to be REGISTERED as Republicans. If the government statutes do not provide for party registration, then the state party should be required to register voters as Republicans. No registration change should be allowed within the six months prior to the primary. No one who has voted in a Democrat primary or been a registered Democrat within a year immediately preceding the GOP primary should be allowed to vote in such GOP primary.

A second change that would be welcome would be a national party rule allowing only those debates that are NOT run by the Lame Stream Media. The model should be the format used by then US Senator Jim DeMint for the South Carolina primary in 2012. All panelists questioning candidates must be legitimately conservative opinion leaders of integrity and distinction such as: Victor Davis Hanson of the Hooverr Institute on foreign and military subjects, Princeton Professor of Philosophy Robert George on social issues, Professor Thomas Sowell on budget and finance. issues, etc. No "gotcha" leftist questions. No direct confrontation of the candidates who would be questioned individually outside the presence or hearing of the other candidates.

It would not lend itself to a party rule, but it would also be useful to have a debate of that sort, well before the primary season to vette the conservative candidates ONLY. This could be held in Spring or Summer of 2015. Participants agree to be guided by a substantial straw poll of conservatives and to withdraw in favor of a conservative consensus candidate if the mantle of heaven fails to drape itself around the other candidates' shoulders. Let the GOP-E do what they please but without us. Then we have one candidate and they have several when the primary votes begin.

Finally, the expenditure of unusually large sums of money (usually provided by the usual Wall Street suspects or the candidate's megafortune) should be regarded as the political equivalent of child-molesting, i.e. an attempt to corruptly BUY a nomination. If any conservative primary campaign is ever adequately funded against the candidacy of a trust fund baby, it will be a first. Make megaspending shameful to the nth degree. The candidate who depends on megaspending is the potential office holder who brings that mentality to public spending. If anyone claims to be a "fiscal conservative," make him or her prove it by campaign spending habits.