Discussion: Virginia GOP Chair Defends Primary Pledge In Heated Interview (AUDIO)

system1 · December 30, 2015, 2:40pm

Discussion for article #244185

condew · December 30, 2015, 2:43pm

Got a primary candidate you’d like to deep six? See if Debbie Wasserman Shultz is available.

ajaykalra · December 30, 2015, 2:54pm

What happens if someone signs a pledge but they are not republicans? What is the penalty?

azjude · December 30, 2015, 2:59pm

So after they “pledge”, what’s the penalty if they vote dem in the general?

You know, beside your side getting shellacked?

austin_dave · December 30, 2015, 3:04pm

I’ve voted as a Republican in IL primaries, trying to affect the outcome to the Dems advantage. (Hasn’t worked yet, btw.) GOPers do the same here in Chicago. It’s part of the game. The pledge part is silly. That would be just part of the game too. Typical GOP empty grand gesture.

jinmichigan · December 30, 2015, 3:07pm

Repugs are getting truly desperate and that is just beginning. It will only get worse.

jtx · December 30, 2015, 3:18pm

I would think they could exclude only so many people.

austin_dave · December 30, 2015, 3:27pm

jviscont1 · December 30, 2015, 3:33pm

The secret handshake test should ferret out the impostors.

littlegirlblue · December 30, 2015, 3:39pm

She’s from Florida. You suggesting a VA GOP Chair can do something about her? It’ll be up to the next president to fire her as chair of the DNC, and it’ll be part of the clean sweep of the oldies from this administration.

dnl · December 30, 2015, 3:47pm

Card carrying Republicans…

get Grover InQuistion / Rinse’n’Spin to head up the ‘signing’.

fgs · December 30, 2015, 3:48pm

Wisconsin has a long tradition of crossing over to sandbag the other party’s primary and I’d say it works about 50/50 +/- 5.

kwoodgr · December 30, 2015, 3:52pm

I am independent…neither a Republican nor a Democrat and I will vote sometimes for a person least likely to win in order to stop some of the silly candidates. I will not sign a pledge, now or ever.

lio · December 30, 2015, 3:54pm

You go the GOP mailing list and receive a shitload of campaign literature.

pshah · December 30, 2015, 4:00pm

Just another example of the GOP’s arrogance. They think their ideas and their party supersedes everyone else’s rights. Witness their reaction to Obama’s election, their single-minded devotion to destroying the ACA, their treasonous letter to Iran, the invitation of Netanyahu to speak to Congress. This is relatively small potatoes, but they just don’t value your opinion if you’re not in lockstep with their ideas.

sooner · December 30, 2015, 4:04pm

Why stop at pledging that I’m a Republican? Why not pledge that I’m also white and a 'Murcan?

I’ll bet this tool worships at Landover Baptist where the unsaved are unwelcome!

Where the Worthwhile Worship

zrx1100 · December 30, 2015, 4:05pm

The one thing scarier to Reps than a Dem winning . . . . . is a REP winning? Pathetic. You built that shit salad. Eat up.

dddinah · December 30, 2015, 4:08pm

PLEDGE my butt.

Elected people take the PLEDGE, not the voters.

The Republican Party has become anal-retentives Paranoia is the backbone of their existence. It’s no longer representative of the will of the people, it’s a party-line political machine that represents the WILL of lobbists and big business. FREEDOM of choice on ANY level is NOT permitted. Culture of FASICST pledges.

Look at their front runner Donald Trump, who is a FASCIST thru and thru.

Republicans are not FREE, their party is UN-AMERICAN.

Here’s my salute to their kind of American way.and a salute to Donald Trump…

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6176083/2/istockphoto_6176083-middle-finger-salute.jpg

misterneutron · December 30, 2015, 4:14pm

Just to make really, really sure, they should insist that every primary voter “pinky swear” that he or she is a Republican.

How old are these people, about 9?

marioth · December 30, 2015, 4:16pm

Pledges are for suckers. There is no constitutional requirement for oaths or pledges.

Courageous action instead, please.