Wasn't it interesting?

[creationist]

Fred Thompson had to have known he was giving his final campaign speech when he optimistically told us all to "Stand Strong". But we all knew something was wrong when the FredFile was silent. I think he delayed in announcing a decision because he wanted the Fred Fervor/"Fredmentum" to die down a little. The Fred Thompson method is not the media method. The media wants immediate satisfaction: are you quitting or aren't you? His spokespeople said he was going to announce in his own time.

This is really interesting to me. I know he wouldn't have quit completely after SC with a sick mother if he had won the state. He would've just shared his attention. In fact, I remember reading (after Fred quit) the account one of his top campaign people gave. The person wanted Fred to imply in his video message that the campaign needed more money (presumably to get through Florida). And, if you can remember the messages by the red pickup at the top of Fred08, the new fundraising message of "Get us into Florida!" was dropped before SC voted. Fred didn't want to get people's hopes up more than they already were and rejected his friend's proposal.

This is what is really exasperating: Who devised the primary system? Why would a win in SC symbolize being the most conservative for your campaign strategy & candidate's image? (Cross-voting is not taken into account!) It'd be better if the GOP kept every state's results confidential until every state had voted! Then the media couldn't use the "momentum" ploy. That's the way to deal with that problem!

[gammy]

I don't know why the Primary is so important in one state over another. I like the idea of holding all vote counts until every state has voted. Have you seen this website:
www.nass.org/ and looked at the regional primary proposal?

[sbenn]

Thanks, Gammy for posting the link. I think we definitely need to change the primary process but I do not like the plan NASS recommends for two main reasons:

Iowa and New Hampshire still get to go first. Neither state represents true conservative views.


By doing regional and rotating the regions every four years NASS thinks if will be fair. Not so! Most regions such as East and South are heavily one way or the other. That gives a candidate an unfair number of delegates in the beginning.

I think they should divide it into 4 primaries but each primary should have a cross section of states-Red, Blue and Purple. That way each of the 4 primaries would have an equality to them. These should be rotated every 4 years as they suggest, giving every state a chance to be in the in the glory. And NH and Iowa should get no preference!

What do you think?

[creationist]

The sizes of the states, and the groupings for voting, are but trivial matters if the media can't use the results to put forth propaganda. The system also needs to be simplified regarding the voting, precincts, delegates, etc.

[strat]

How about not giving any delegates to states that vote before Super Tuesday, and/or have open primaries/ caucases.

[sbenn]

If it is a Republican primary then voters should have to be a registered Republican to participate or at least have to vote Republican in the election. Same for Democrats. This crossover voting is not right. It is truly what messed Fred up. And the Independents would also have to choose their side and stick to it. At least Rush is giving it back to them this time with Operation Chaos!

Also there should be: [glow=red,2,300]NO winner take all states.[/glow] McCain barely got over 1/3 of the votes in some states (thanks to crossover voting) but got all the delegates. That is just not right. That means the majority was against him but yet McCain won.

[creationist]

I think that voting machines were rigged, also. I really do.

[creationist]

I normally keep anything pertaining to Dr. John Coleman in the Tin Foil Hat thread, but this is something anyone would find interesting:

Coleman wrote that he met up with Fred Thompson in Florida to discuss the Watergate experience. Fred was disappointed that Sen. Sam Ervin, head of the investigations, had so severely restricted Fred in what evidence could be released. Ervin, a Scottish Freemason (pagan), also pushed very hard for the improper interpretation of "separation of church and state".

(Ervin knew Watergate was a hoax.)

How interesting that Coleman met Fred years back!