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Stop the calls for Candidates to drop out. Let the Primaries Proceed.

By: chieftain (Diary)  |  March 15th, 2012 at 11:10 AM  | 

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Why ask for a pre-mature end to the primaries by having Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich drop out? Or any candidate?

Doesn’t the half of the country that has yet to hold its primary have a say in the candidate process?  If they don’t, then the primary process should be radically changed.  If they truly do then end the calls for candidates to drop out.

Who does a long process benefit?  I argue that it benefits the American people and this year the Republican party.  Although agreeing to multiple debates in front of hostile narrative directing media was unwise, the lengthy process has allowed the Republicans to dominant news coverage and created uncertainty for the Democrats over who their target will be.  Each of the flawed Republican candidates did bring their own ideas to the front for debate and consideration and that is healthy for a country.  Frankly I find the calls for candidates to drop out to be akin to the totalitarian mindset of Democrats.  The convention is to select the candidate and the primaries and caucus events are part of the process.   Let it work.  Rest assured in the fall, your favorite candidate may not be elected, but President Obama will be fired.  If you don’t liek the process then work to change it, but don’t try to game it by in effect saying that millions of Republican primary voters do not deserve a opportunity to have their say.

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  • Xasteius

    no text

    • avagreen

      Been wondering why the elites have been doing this during this race, and what clairvoyant skills they had that I didn’t.

  • cheetah2

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    • APA Guy

      It’s going to happen…all indications here in the Hoosier State are that it will.

  • Dave_A

    By drawing out the inevitable (we now know that Ron Paul and Newt will NOT be the nominee – and that if both stay in, Mitt Romney will be), all we do is give Obama a free pass.

    The sooner we have a settled nominee, the sooner the entire party apparatus can stop wasting campaign money fighting itself, and turn it’s guns on Obama….

    The sooner we have a settled nominee, the longer period of time there will be to force Obama to defend his record & his policies.

    If we go to August with an inter-party fight, that means only 2 1/2 short months will be spent making the case for why our nominee should be President. Obama would love for the campaign season to be that short.

    We need to end this, ASAP.

    And we need to fix the system for next election, so that it’s over by the end of April.

    • demsaresatanic

      After all, we have already had quite a few primaries, Republicans in the remaining states should be happy to be spared the trouble, and we will be spared this terrible suspense. And it might even be too late by the end of April, maybe we should cancel the remaining primaries, those slowpoke states are ruining everything.

      • Dave_A

        There was immense dissatisfaction as to how the 08 primaries wrapped up, and the RNC ‘fix’ for this was to back-load the degates & write rules that ensured a long drawn out primary process in 2012….

        Rather than write rules to encourage primary consolidation (the proper way to fix the ‘We got McCain before I got to vote’ complaint from 08), they encouraged an even more drawn out process, that weakens the final candidate as a result.

        It’s the RNC’s fault, not the states.

        • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

          Well, yes, I guess we can blame the RNC.

          But who elects the RNC committeemen and women?

          It’s the Republican Party precinct committeemen.

          Want to change the RNC? Make it “more conservative,” “more principled?”

          The ONLY way to do that is to get more conservatives into the precinct committeeman ranks.

          Half of the PC positions in every state are, on average, vacant. One third of the precincts in America have not even one Republican precinct committeeman.

          If we conservatives would flock into our local Party committees and learn how to become a PC, and then become one, we could change the Party leadership. It’s estimated that about there’s about 400,000 PC slots in the Republican Party and that only about 200,000 are filled. The fact that Michael Steele, and then his able lieutenant Reince Priebus, were elected to the RNC Chair position tells us that the 200,000 thousand filled slots were on the moderate side. Do the math. Fill up all the 200,000 vacant slots with conservatives and that 50-50 ideological split goes to 75-25 in favor of conservatives.

          No more “debates” with MSNBC pukes.

          No more moderation in the Party’s message by its chairman.

          We can then try, at the state levels, to close our presidential preference primaries to only registered Republicans.

          Etc.

          I wonder how many RS contributors are PCs?

          Thank you.

          CW

        • demsaresatanic

          The idea that having a presumed nominee is any significant advantage is speculative. There may well be evidence supporting the concept; throughout most of our history the non-incumbent party waited to find out who the nominee would be until the convention, so there is historical data to look to. However you haven’t demonstrated much proof that the current race “weakens the final candidate as a result.”
          I am aware, however, of evidence which demonstrates that the voting public doesn’t make up its mind until shortly before the election; I previously posted about Reagan being 30 points behind Carter several months prior to the 80 election.

  • Dave_A

    I mean something like having 10 states vote every 2 weeks, starting the 2nd Tuesday in January, for a 10-week race….

    And having it rotate every year, so that no one state gets to stay ‘first’….

    Also, get rid of caucuses – make everyone hold a binding primary.

    • http://www.unifiedpatriots.com/ pilgrim

      The important thing is to stop being the Democrat Lite party with so many unbound super delegates and proportioned out delegates. More states need to go back to winner-take-all and all delegates pledged to a candidate.

      • SoFiMil

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  • lastgopinillinois

    I agree 100% cheiftain. Let it roll! Let it roll!
    And thank you very much and God bless you sir.

  • Viet71

    The nominee will be battle-hardened.