Let me get this straight. The Republicans formed open primaries to drive excitement levels on the candidates. Except now, they don’t 
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It was either this loyalty pledge, or an oath of fealty.
I’ve done the same here in NH. In fact, I am very likely the only resident of Cheshire County who voted for Michelle Bachmann in the primary. If Louis Gohmert had been on the ballot it would have been a tough choice.
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Republicans always talk about Freedom, freedom of this freedom on that. Then why force voters to sign a pledge, that’s not freedom. The Republican Party is a fraud, they only want the freedom they can pick and choose from, otherwise you do what they say. The GOP is crashing, and will no longer be relevant after 2015.
They spell it “freedim.”
If you sign the Pubbie Pledge there is still nothing the Pubbie Party can do if you vote Democratic. The good thing thing is that if you sign the Pubbie Pledge you will be on the Pubbie mailing list for all kinds of amusing Pubbie propaganda.
This makes no sense. Virginia law already states that citizens are required to vote in the primary of the party they “in good faith” intend vote for in the general…
Doesn’t this moron know the GOP has required this in VA for literally decades???
I don’t understand how they think they can enforce it. Aren’t ballots secret anymore?
Though the Virginia GOP was ham-fisted about it, I have some sympathy, I hate it when Republicans cross over to screw around in Democratic primaries, and I disapprove of us doing because there is an implication that we’re voting for the candidate we intend to support in the general. To intend otherwise is dishonest and it’s why I vote in the Democratic primary even when we don’t have anything contested but the Republicans do. That crossing over happens so easily is why I dislike open primaries. If you don’t support a party enough to just register with it, why should you get anything to say about picking their candidates?
What is the point of a 140 character limit on Twitter if people are just going to do a bunch of serial posts?
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If he loses the primaries, that wont matter to him.
That and cull out all the independent voters who – mistakenly --think Trump is a winner.
Republican for a day?
Unless you confess prior to that day that you intend to vote for someone else in the general, you can just claim disenchantment on the basis of the GOP’s next action you find disgusting. Shouldn’t be much of a challenge.
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Because the candidates they pick have a chance of governing the country. You could argue by voting whichever way leads to the least possibility of a bad outcome – for the lesser of evils or for the greater of evils because that person is least likely to be elected – is your duty as a citizen.
And here’s hoping both Trump, and his followers, go ahead and ignore that pledge later, and go on to create the biggest, classiest, most world-class, gold-plated independent spoiler campaign in American history!
[Disclosure: The Professor is heavily invested in popcorn futures.]
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