comMITTed to Romney!

The following comment came from the “Live Chat 24/7″ section, and I felt it was worthy of a blog post. Please read it, and comment in the comments section. Have a blessed Sunday all. Mine’s not starting out too well, I’m not feeling well and my oldest child has a high fever and is feeling bad too. Keep some happy thoughts, won’t you? Thanks. Now onto the comment:

Ann, you need to start a blog about how to change this horrific primary system. I’ll throw out some thoughts, but there are plenty of smart people on these blogs that can improve my thoughts significantly.

1) The order of the primary states in re-chosen every 4 years by random lottery one year in advance of the actual election. This will keep anomalous states from an inordinate influence of nominees. It will also prevent primary leapfrogging and compression.

2) The primaries go two weeks apart in waves of 5 states every two weeks. This might mitigate the “momentum” factor.

3) No “open” primaries. Your party gets to decide your parties’ candidate. Republicans can only vote in the republican primary, independents in the independent primary only, and democrats the same, green the same, etc. That will prohibit the other parties from gaming the system with crossover voting. If your party does not have a legitimate candidate, then maybe you need to think very hard about why that is.

4) Party voter registration is finalized 3 months in advance. No voting day registration nonsense to also game the system.

5) Delegates are divided up by the same formula in each state. Something like the Founding Fathers’ legislative concepts of a Senate and a House or Representatives. So maybe 50% (or so) of each states delegates are “winner take all,” and the remainder are strictly proportional to the actual vote.

6) Caucusing is out. This is voting by the people. Working people voting at polls, without the caucus day shenanigans (think WV).

Thoughts? Something has to be done, because what we currently have is….”broken.”

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Mitt liked to use the term “three legged stool” a lot during the campaign. Which of these three legs are the most importance to you? Do you look at them equally? Does one stick out more than the other two? For me it’s the economic side that matters the most to me. I’m less of a conservative on the “social” aspect of the stool, and while I might seem complacent here I believe that the national security part is under control right now. We as a nation and government though need to get the business side straight because otherwise we’re not going to ever get ahold of the economy. I’d like to hear what you have to say on this though.

P.S. We’ve had a few live chats since Mitt dropped from the race, would this be something that you would be interested in participating in in the future? It’s a lot of fun, and we still get to connect with one another.

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