Posted on 08/03/2012 4:41:19 PM PDT by Zakeet
Here in Virginia we usually have Presidential primaries that pull in a million to a million and a half people. Recalling we have open primaries that means a lot of cross over voting is possible, and it happens.
These things shouldn't be allowed, but we used to have a one party system, so primaries meant something else.
Romney's wheeler dealers (presumably with his blessing) managed to come up with a new rule 3 days before closing for delivery of the nominating petitions that raised the number of signatures you needed to submit to avoid the validation process.
Amazingly that number was just 500 less than the number of signatures Romney claimed to have, but more than what was claimed by the other candidates.
All at once instead of our having a popular primary part of the Super Tuesday line up we had two guys ~ Romney and Paul ~ and barely 300,000 people showed up to vote.
Romney didn't raise any criticism of this situation, yet, that last minute rule change was certainly tantamount to cheating.
Romney showed us how moral he is in the primary.
He ain't very!
You want to be represented by a low caliber no count cheater, go ahead. I have standards.
It's going to be a long election night for the RATs and all their MSM sycophants. I can't wait.
I agree.
Obama should be viewed as the favorite to win. Romney can still pull off a close election, but demographics make a blowout all but impossible.
It is going to take a smart, disciplined campaign to pull this off. We need more out from him than what we have seen thus far.
“Barack Obama Runs On Empty And Toward Defeat”
Wait a minute.
Pew just said Obama is ahead by 10 points.
They'll have to send out for a heap of Chick-fil-A.
It needs to be more than Obambi losing. Every running Democrat who has been within 20 feet of this clown needs to lose BIG.
Not so fast. Just who was it that went for his cotton candy?
Right there’s your real problem.
How is it possible that you could? Are you in the US being "served" by the DNC RATamatic "press"?
He just essentially called Dingy Harry a crook and liar. He told him to "put up or shut up" and in as many words.
Because RATs voted for him in "open primary" states.
To no discernible effect, however.
Really, now. If Romney won the Republican primary contest, how can it be claimed he was "our weakest candidate".
He wasn't my favorite either. But he was demonstrably a stronger candidate than Santorum, Newt, or anybody else.
Same demographics as 2010 and we know how that worked out.
Am I in that deep of a coma? So far, it seems to me that Romney hasn't been all that weak as a candidate.
A Destruction Production Incorporated. Obama is evil, and his cotery is a consolidation of this evil, and the mainstream media is business of evil.
“Obama 2012 will come nowhere close to McCain’s 2008 total.
He will get the electoral licking he deserves.”
My prediction is a little different than yours:
Romney 270
Obama 268
We’ll just have to wait and see.
“What the hell is going on here?”
What’s going on has less to do with the RNC, than it does with the reality that the electorate itself is changing.
The America that elected Ron Reagan twice (the latter time with a great landslide) will never elect his kind again. Because that nation simply doesn’t exist any more.
Thank Mr. Gramsci for that...
Because the RNC hates conservatives, but the TeaParty is going to shove one down their throat like Reagan was.
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