Posted on 03/15/2014 4:45:24 PM PDT by re_tail20
Edited on 03/15/2014 4:46:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Planned changes to the Republican Party's presidential selection process are part of a rebuilding process that will strengthen the GOP brand and hopefully make its presidential nominee more competitive in 2016, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told California Republicans on Friday, calling the GOP's current primary process "a complete disaster."
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Because you have one job. Vote GOP as you are told by the party and their hundreds of little ass kissers that run around internet forums screaming “LESSER EVIL! and NO MATTER WHAT!
Then you are to sit down, shut up and await your next call to assist (with vote and public vocal praise) their next warp 9 lurch leftward.
Seems pretty clear to me. I mean they have bees screaming exactly that for years now.
Oh...forgot projection. They also project the need for purity, unless it is the wrong kind in their opinion. Then you get pics of Yosmitie Sam on a Dragon and told purity is the root of Dem victory cuZ they know better.
Hey, don’t look at me. This is their strategy to hold the base, not mine ;)
I agree but any state with an open primary should be eliminated from the process until late in the game. NH is MAss-lite and the Iowa “caucus” is just as useless IMO. They are too easily manipulated.
Texas should decide the nominee, because we are the biggest state that consistently votes GOP.
So, convince various States to stop permitting open primaries where the Dems cross over and vote for the weakest GOP candidate, knowing they will lose at election time to a Dem.
Priebus is a total goofus who continues to allow the Dems to steal elections.
I want a pic of Sarah on a dragon!
“Priebus is a total goofus who continues to =allow= ...”
You misspelled “Intentionally Help”.
If only... ;)
Peta would be on MSNBS with a campaign targeting Palin with “Abuse of imaginary creatures”
...because it’s the seriousness of the charge...
That seems correct.
Allowing a few small states to “go first” gives an opportunity for less well-funded candidates to be heard. Do we really want a system where a candidate needs $20 million dollars before the first primary vote is cast? Talk about a GOP-E wet dream!
Iowa is allowed to have early caucuses precisely because they are not binding.
I assume every state has caucuses. How else do precincts select chairs and start building platform planks? Can’t do that with a primary.
Caucus costs are paid for by political parties. Primaries put taxpayers on the hook
Mitch has already provided the country club forecast....
With the full support of Rand lest we forget.
Screw the media....
Having same party debates is stupid, especially with liberal moderators.... just provides fodder for the liberal media to attack all Republicans.
“Allowing a few small states to “go first” gives an opportunity for less well-funded candidates to be heard. Do we really want a system where a candidate needs $20 million dollars before the first primary vote is cast? Talk about a GOP-E wet dream!”
Good point, and I can agree to that as long as the “go first” states are rotated, particularly to ones that are more conservative.
“Iowa is allowed to have early caucuses precisely because they are not binding.”
That may well be; I was not aware of it.
“I assume every state has caucuses. How else do precincts select chairs and start building platform planks? Can’t do that with a primary.”
If that is true it’s news to me. I thought that the caucus states were in the distinct minority.
“Caucus costs are paid for by political parties. Primaries put taxpayers on the hook”
Good point.
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
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First, the GOP needs to determine what they actually stand for.
Parroting the old hackneyed cliches — lower taxes, smaller government, cut government spending — fall short, because the GOP has lost credibility on those.
Second, trying to become the Dem-lite party is not going to work. Why vote for the look-alike; if one wants what they offer, one votes for the real Democratic party, not the immitation.
Third, hire a new bunch of consultants — with winning histories, not losing histories.
Your explanation of his comments sounds about right to me....
A rotating early straw poll is a good idea. Non-binding, but instructive and fun.
Limiting it to the state with the highest percentage of Republican votes means going to Utah instead of Iowa every four years, inviting the same complaints.
Well, they have a track record that backs it up to the letter. Hopefully this time around people will not cave to pressure and fear once the cries of “The Dem is worse” become deafening.
The Dem ain’t worse. We have a house and senate filled with Republicans doing everything they can to avoid holding anyone to account, funding Obamacare FULLY and the rest.
The Dem ain’t worse. The Dem is the same thing.
Well back during the GOP convention they voted to change I believe rule 12, 15, and 16 with the help of Romney’s campaign manager and Boener goes out on the floor for the voice vote that was evenly split or even slightly negative to passing the changes (and according to the rules then has to go to actual vote count if its to close to call) and then deems it passed. I believe those changes allow them to do this mid cycle in response to the tea party presence nipping at the establishment’s heels. Corruption everywhere. The GOP showing no interest in repealing ObamaCare, we are being played for the fools between the powers that have a strangle hold over DC.
Priebus is part of the club, that’s why he wasn’t fired for doing a much worse job than Steele, who at least presided over the Tea Party victory in 2010.
I prefer to call him Rancid Priapus. He is the epitome of the spineless, soulless corporate weasels who run the GOP. Everything he does and says is so transparently phony. Priapus and his ilk think the GOP just needs better marketing and they are ready to make politically connected consultants very rich with in an effort to get it.
Coming from the RNC this suggests they think they have found a way to eliminate conservatives from contention.
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