The GOP's Primary Shakeup Plot

[brooklynite]

Source: The Daily Beast

The national Republican Party is considering a number of major changes to its presidential nominating process to avoid a repeat of the debacles of 2012, according to several party officials.

Most significantly, the party is considering holding a “Midwestern primary” featuring Great Lakes states such as Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin that would come immediately after the votes in the traditional early primary states. Also being weighed and thought likely to be approved when the Republican National Committee meets in early 2014 is a plan to shorten the primary season considerably by holding the party’s convention in July, almost as soon as the last primary ballots are cast.

The move toward a “Midwestern Super Tuesday” after the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida appears aimed in part at wresting control of the nominating process from social conservatives in the South in an effort to produce a nominee more likely to carry the election in November. Nearly all the “Rust Belt” states have fallen into Democratic hands in recent elections, and GOP officials believe that showering them with more resources throughout the primary process—and ensuring that an eventual nominee is broadly popular there—could flip the Midwest into the Republican column in November.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/republican-party-weighs-a-2016-shakeup-with-midwestern-primary.html

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This assumes that the State Governments, which generally pay for the Primary, are willing to move the dates, and that Democratic Primaries move as well. Otherwise the Tea Party Legislature would have to pay extra money for double primaries.

[alfredo]

1. I don't see the states going along with this. It would also

favor presidential candidates with the most money.

[global1]

3. Hello...... Most Money...... Yeah.....nt

[alfredo]

5. Helped Romney during the primaries.

[marble falls]

2. Too bad the dog let the tail take over. Don't want to repeat last election - put the Tea Genie......

back into the bottle. Good luck with that. A Tea third party would result.

[Dopers_Greed]

4. I suppose I should call-in to the talk radio shows

As a "concerned conservative" worrying that the RINO Republican Establishment is trying to suppress the Tea Party

[alfredo]

6. "Concerned Conservative for Religious and Racial Purity."

[calimary]

7. Oh yeah! ANYTHING that forces the teabaggers to have to spend more money

that they'd ordinarily pour into hatchet-job ads against Dems! Force 'em to squander more money that they weren't budgeting for things like this! MORE!!!

I think that we ought to take a page from what the republi-CONS are trying to do against the ACA. And voting rights. And women's rights. And more. Figure out EVERY and ANY way to put a kink in the system. Put a stick in the spokes. Pour a little sugar into the engine. ANYTHING!!! Anything that hobbles and complicates and interrupts and monkeywrenches their carefully-laid plans. ANYTHING. WHATEVER slows 'em down and trips 'em up and breaks their momentum and complicates their plans! No matter how small. THAT'S what we need to do. Keep 'em busy! Keep 'em fighting little fires breaking out all around them. Keep 'em having to fill the little holes in the levee that we keep picking open, so they can't rest. And they can't focus. And they can't move forward because there are too many problems to fix before they can. And while they're tending to those, more little fires break out, and more little holes bore through and cause leaks. And they have to troubleshoot further. And they have to reassign forces and resources that were earmarked for offense. They're too busy playing defense and shoring things up. Dissipate their energy. Demoralize their troops.

Destabilize the enemy.

[Bossy Monkey]

8. They could of course try repudiating insanity. n/t