Post NY Primary Musings

I don't think there is a perfect way to construct a primary electorate.  Both Frank Bruni and Bernie Sanders think independent voters should be allowed to pick a party on election day and vote in a primary.  A radical thought within me in response to that is why not allow everyone to vote in both primaries?  If done honestly and with thought, it might help move the parties toward the middle and govern with compromises to the other side with the goal of clean efficient government.  But with our current state of partisanship it could also lead to mischief voting which might well not be useful.

I have never had a problem with the parties saying only registered voters can vote in a primary.  That made sense to me.  If people want to vote in a primary, they register as members of the party by a deadline.  They have to anticipate that and comply with the deadline.  And the deadline has to be early enough for voter lists to be transmitted to each polling location.

Meanwhile Ted Cruz said Sarah Palin like comments after losing in NY.  I would never say they had similar IQ's, so it must be something in the bitterness that passes for conservatism today.

"You may have been knocked down, but America has always been best when she is lying down with her back on the mat, and the crowd has given the final count ... It is time as us for a nation to shake it off and be who we were destined to be.”

NY is the 3rd largest populated state in the U.S.  If you have been rejected by a state's voters, you would think you would contemplate what motivated those people to vote for the other guy rather than dismiss the whole state for rejecting you and vowing to continue on your path to force the state to comply with your view.  But that is why NY rejected Ted Cruz.  I am not sure why the NY GOP rejected John Kasich, although he did win somewhere in NYC and maybe Albany.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is flying in a plane he owns which had its registration expire in January.  Thus, he is flying a plane that is illegal to fly.  Similar behavior to an undocumented worker crossing the border to work in the U.S. because he wants and needs to be somewhere to achieve what he wants to achieve. You would think Trump would be more sympathetic to such behavior since he exhibits such behavior.

And last but not certainly not the least.  Newsmax.com, an extremely right wing website that I click on occasionally through Yahoo, is flat out for Trump now, saying if a contested convention steals it from Trump, it will show the evils of the party elders, who in their mind are the Bush neoconservative wing of the party who in their words, led us into the disaster of Iraq and all its fallout.  Unfortunately, their prescription (Trump's positions) of securing the borders, tossing all the undocumented over the wall and tearing up trade treaties will only generate a massive recession with higher inflation.