Why can’t we get rid of caucuses and primaries and go back to state conventions and smoke-filled rooms? Believe it or not, we actually had a better class of politicians in those days, even if most of them were crooked as a dog’s hind leg…and you didn’t have to worry about the other party vote-bombing your primary.
Plus, pre-Amendment XVII, the politicians — at least, the Senators — knew who had their balls in a lockbox. “You want to be a senator, Fred? OK, well, be aware that either you’ll do what you’re told by the governor, the legislature, and the state party, or you’ll serve one term and be back on your farm plowing the north 40 so fast, your head will spin.”
And this crap of presidential candidates running all over the place and flapping their jaws regarding the hot news of the moment — can’t you all be like McKinley and go sit on your damn porch while the party runs your campaign?
So sick of all of them. Would that they had a single neck, I’d cut it through. Except maybe Cruz. That boy wants to mix it up. I say we ought to let him.
Never should have passed the 17th Amendment. It has resulted in fossils like McConnell, McCain, Lugar and the vast majority of them hanging on way past their sell-by date.