who's the genius what thought open primaries was a good idea in the first place? it's lunacy writ largeWell,well,well...wonder if anything will come of this?
Oh course they should close primaries. Voters in the primaries are your base and they should be the ones selecting candidates.
This sounds like a little conservative-pandering from Mr. Priebus.
About damn time, but who controls that, the RNC or the states?
who's the genius what thought open primaries was a good idea in the first place? it's lunacy writ largeThat’s nice Mr. Priebus. After the friggin primaries are over and all.
That being said, should Reince actively work TO close the primaries, and get it done, he would be a true saint to the GOP and conservatives.
Getting rid of open primaries is a good start, but the best way to eliminate liberal corruption is to abolish the federalist and Wilsonian 17th Amendment.
More GOPe bait and switch B.S. to sucker comservatives back to the Nov polls.
Talk is cheap, Reince.
About time, a two year old could figure out an open primary is a STUPID idea! I stayed a Democrat from 1993 until 1999 and voted for the worst person in the Democrat Primary. Then in Nov, I would vote straight GOP.
Such a reform is long overdue.
“Angry Republican Leaders Ready To Shut Door On Open Primaries Changes sought after Mississippi Democrats help Thad Cochran beat Chris McDaniel”
That is really rich, considering it was the GOPe that orchestrated the whole damned scam to begin with. It wasn’t the open primary that was the problem, it was repubs allowing dems to vote in the runoff
The Republican Party could Guarantee closed "private" primaries by simply paying for them.
The instant a party accepts public financing, the primary is "open." The dirty big secret here is that when one's campaign entity accepts public funding, one (the candidate, with appropriate kickbacks) gets to keep any unspent campaign funds by means fair or fairly foul.
The RNC thus gets to save its own money, while adding to oddly dispersed funds supplied by taxpayer funding. This issue of "leftover campaign funds" is murky indeed.
The Pat Buchanan family fortune is based entirely upon unspent federal matching finds. John Kerry creamed some $15 million in unspent funds, and down the line it goes. If a Congressman can last three terms, he (and his family) are multi-millionaires. Case in point, Dirty Harry Reid: comes to town with zilch, now worth hundreds of millions. Joe Biden? Orin Hatch? Mitch McConnell? John Boehner? Nancy P., whose husband almost managed to steal the Presidio? Feinstein and Boxer, who are in the Bbillionaire category? Check'em out.
In almost every case, that first couple of million? Unspent campaign funds. The rest? Well, on Wall Street the SEC might very well call it, "Insider Trading."
Thanks to democrats.
Call Them Republicans if you want. But don’t call them leaders.
“I am dead set against open primaries...until another tea party candidate threatens one of my gopE friends” said Reince Priebus.
Fixed.
Reince, rinse, repeat.
Do something about it, Reince!