Josh Putnam of Frontloading HQ has this post about a bill introduced in Kansas to abolish the presidential primary. The bill, HB 2126, was introduced at the request of the Secretary of State, in order to save money. Kansas has only actually held presidential primaries twice, in 1980 and 1992. Since then, generally the legislature passes a bill before each presidential election year, suspending the presidential primary for the upcoming election only. But the new bill seems to do away with the presidential primary completely.
I’m confused… what will they do then? Caucuses?
Yes, caucuses.
The party hacks LOVE those party hack caucuses — bribes, threats, the whole works.
Back to the EVIL past — before official ballots.
So Demo Rep, what would you propose? You don’t like primaries, and you are against caucuses. What is your solution, pray tell?… and PLEASE no cryptic abbreviations in your response. Thank you.
Poor Dorothy and her friends: If the State of Kansas eliminates primary elections, that will be a real attack on democracy and progress. I wonder if they hold primary elections, these days, in the Emerald City of Oz. I sure hope so.
# 4
Equal nominating petitions.
P.R. legislative
App.V. executive/judicial
NO party hack robot MORON caucuses, primaries and conventions — which have become TOTAL EVIL at work — especially left Donkeys and right Elephants.
#6: Hey fool, nobody here knows wtf you’re babbling about. You are just a waste of space.
# 7 Thanks for the fine endorsement.
How many juveniles and Stone Age party hack MORONS are on this list ???
Caucuses are wonderful. People who put forth the energy to participate in caucuses are much better informed, than those who simply show up at the polls and pull the lever for the name that sounds best, or was on the most signs and so sticks in their memory. We should have caucuses everywhere and eliminate primaries entirely. Caucuses strike the appropriate balance between conventions and primaries.
#9 A super-human Prez candidate is going to go to EVERY caucus in the U.S.A. ???
Circa 130 Million voters in 2012 in a zillion caucuses ???
It is quite EVIL bad enough for the party hacks going to NH and IA in the dead of winter and acting as if they care about the voters — when they ONLY want POWER — to benefit the party hack gang involved.
P.R. and App.V.
Doremus Jessup: You might as well save your breath. Personally, I have stopped trying to reason with “Demo Rep” until that person decides to use his (my guess is that the writer is male) real name and submits messages that are more logical and rational.
Most of the juvenile postings on this list (and many other internet lists) do not have any reasoning in them.
REAL Democracy NOW in all nations —
Front line at the moment – Egypt with its circa 6,000 years of tyrants – monarchs/oligarchs — with or without Stone Age gerrymanders, caucuses, primaries and conventions.
P.R. and App.V.
How many folks in 1776-1865 in the U.S.A. wrote —
Abolish Slavery NOW ???
Any pre-school questions from the many juveniles on this list ???
Is there anything less productive or useful than calling someone a ‘moron’ or ‘party hack’ on an internet message board? Calling everything ‘evil’ or comparing relatively minor instances to Hitler and Stalin?
What genius nouns and adjectives can magically be used regarding the EVIL robot party hack leftwing/rightwing MORONS in the Fed and State regimes ???
How EVIL powermad are the top Donkey/Elephants in the gerrymander Congress ??? Now playing with about 30 percent of the ENTIRE U.S.A. economy – directly and indirectly.
What were the genius nouns and adjectives in 1775 and 1861 ???
Just how many *politically correct* New Age M-O-R-O-N-S are on various election reform websites ???
P.R. and App.V. — pending advanced head to head math.
13.Tom Says:
January 31st, 2011 at 9:30 am
Is there anything less productive or useful than calling someone a ‘moron’ or ‘party hack’ on an internet message board? Calling everything ‘evil’ or comparing relatively minor instances to Hitler and Stalin?
Like I said (in #11, above):
11.Phil Sawyer Says:
January 30th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Doremus Jessup: You might as well save your breath. Personally, I have stopped trying to reason with “Demo Rep” until that person decides to use his (my guess is that the writer is male) real name and submits messages that are more logical and rational.
Let me just add this: As long as a website allows people to use fantasy names instead of their real names, there are going to be a lot of “Demo Rep” type postings. It is just the way that it is and my suggestion is that people just not respond to this person util he (again, my guess is that the writer is male) decides to try to be reasonable and logical. At the present time, he is not even trying.
What I meant to write (above) was “until,” not “util.”
How many genius folks ever read the unsigned stuff in the American colonies in 1761-1776 regarding the EVIL Brit regime — king george III and his EVIL gang of oligarchs ???
Back then such folks controlled a very large fraction of the gerrymander districts in the House of Commons.
Are the New Age powermad top robot party hacks in gerrymander legislative bodies more or less EVIL than the Brit gang in 1761-1776 ??? Speakers, majority leaders, party hack whips, etc. ???
Democracy NOW — P.R. and App.V.