American Thinker: Once upon a time, primaries were limited to registered members of a given party. The theory was that, in the spring, when only people obsessed with politics are paying attention, the base would get to choose the candidate most likely to win while representing their values. Then, in the fall, when all Americans are paying attention, the parties would have their chosen representatives face off against each other while articulating why their respective parties’ values were the best for America.
The open primary system changed all that. Now people from any party can vote for any candidate. The theory is that this will force candidates to play to the middle, not to the base. The reality is different. First, candidates have to be even more extreme to grab their base. Second, people from the opposite party try to game the system by voting for the worst person to represent the other party in the fall election. In other words — Operation Chaos.
This is a terrible way to choose presidential candidates. This statement is true even if the Democrats’ version of Operation Chaos was part of what elevated Trump, arguably one of America’s greatest presidents, to become the Republican candidate.
The problem with an Operation Chaos tactic, as Democrats discovered to their horror, is that the person they think will lose might actually end up winning. Just to refresh your recollection, here’s footage showing Democrats begging Trump to run and hoping that he would prevail in the primaries because they were certain that Hillary would destroy him:
The Democrats stopped laughing late in the evening on November 8, 2016. read more
…yeah, I crossed over in ’08 to vote against Hillary like Rush suggested, picking some guy with a really stupid name I’d never heard of because he was the only threat she really had at the time, and I figured there was no way a Muslim could beat an American only 7 years after 911.
…how’d that work out, anyway?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/85/c9/3185c9e3e4d41a41bbfc4624220fdd9e.jpg
…oh, yeah. Be CAREFUL with that…
Thirty years ago, I vowed to never again vote for a democrat. When I ote in the GA primary, it will be for PDT. I refuse to boost any democrat’s vote total just to stick it to another democrat.
Deceit never benefits one over truth and honesty so just be truthful and honest in all that you do.
As Jeff Cooper put it: Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth.
In the longer term, you will never regret it.
Just make sure you vote in November.
Political Carnival…anything goes, anything might happen, and then the swamp mucks it up with their games
Funny thing is, the “Parties” are not functionaries of the government.
The government has no business telling them how to operate their respective selection processes. We’re a “Two-Party System” by a connivance of two private corporations: the DNC and the RNC – who maintain the fiction that there exists some underlying “democratic” notion to the power politics of a (more or less) uniparty of which the DNC and RNC are simply different wings (sort of similar to MLB).
The idea is to so expand the franchise (eligible voters) that each vote means less and less until it actually means nothing. We allowed the same thing to happen with “Representation” – the Constitution prescribes “shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand …” but Congress passed the law that limits the number of Representatives to 435 (~1/76000) which further insulates the “Representative” from its constituency (and thus, accountability).
All of this folderol (or malarkey) is to confuse and befuddle the confused and befuddled masses into believing that “the future of mankind is determined by the counting your [their] snotty noses.”
izlamo delenda est …
Campaign managers are only trying to sway a majority of 5% to 10% of the potential voters. The other 95% will either vote straight party lines (regardless of the candidate) or for a single issue (usually stupid). For example, a lot of Hillary voters supported her only because she was female.
Keep this in mind when someone suggests participating in an “Operation Chaos.” You can cross party lines and get a ham sandwich nominated, only to find millions of people will vote for this ham sandwich because he or she is a Republican or Democrat or because a ham sandwich is delicious.
Mmmmm … ham …
1/760,000 (lost a decimal place) – sorry.
izlamo delenda est …
If you wanted true Operation: Chaos, you would organize so that a different Dem candidate won in each state, including several who have already dropped out. (Especially the ones that already dropped out!)
A contested Dem Convention sounds like such fun!
…OTOH, if Barry HADN’T won the primary in ’08, whether due to Operation Chaos or not, would we have been better off with President Hillary? OR President McCain?
…Hillary would have been a sheer, dictatorial reign of terror, with executions both secret and public to beat the Nation to her will and punish it for mocking her as First Lady. She wouldn’t give a shit about other nations, she’d be too busy consolidating her rule and wreaking her wrath on THIS one to bother. We’d be Cuba or worse, disarmed and pounded to the dust, stripped of rights and dispossed if a Hillary dictatorship had happened. Either she’d STILL rule us TODAY, or we’d have had that Civil War, and most likey still been fighting it, or even LOST it, since this was prior to the 8 years we spent arming up under threat of “obama”, so we weren’t armed and ready THEN as we are NOW.
…a McCain presidency, on the other hand, would have been a Bush 1 presidency at best, and Hillary Lite at worst. He was a willing tool of Democrats when he was told to throw the election to the Indonesian, and would have been their willing tool had he somehow won. The man had no standards, no morals, no decency, and no interest in anything but himself. Best case, he would have severely damage the Republican “brand”, making Barry and Hillary BOTH inevitable: worst case, asshole he was, would be WWIII.
…so maybe it’s for the best. God gave us Barry as the ONLY way to get to Trump.
…the Lord is a bit of a long-range planner that way, which is why we should trust in him, and we’re in a better place now BECAUSE of it…
I would never, ever vote for a Marxist. Not even as some dumbass prank.
I have to vote for Bernie for all those poor East Nashvillains on Super Tuesday who can’t make it to the polls because they were redistributed the literal whirlwind for gentrifying historically black neigborhoods.
Also, don’t tell me what to do.