[RunItUpTheGut]

People who do more for their party deserve more consideration than people who do less. A political party is no different than any other private club or other organization. If you invest time and money in the party, then you are more likely to rise and win elections within the organization. Do you believe that there is something inherently wrong with rewarding investment and hard work?

Nothing I said should be controversial or have any effect on your temper. We have a right to vote in general elections, regardless of how much or how little we have done for private political parties. We have no right to vote in party primary elections unless the party decides to allow us to do so.

Your vote in general election counts as much as mine and our votes count as much as Bill Gates' vote. Party nominations are different. We can start our own political party and make our own rules, but if we want to have a voice in the rules of a party with millions of members, then we cannot expect that everything will be to our liking.

Ask yourself what gives you or anybody else the right to help select a private political party's nominee, any more than you have a right to help select the president of a local private country club. The principle is exactly the same. Private organizations make their own rules - that is what separates them from public organizations.

Honestly, I don't know where the idea that people are entitled to participate in the selection of any political party's nominee. There is no such entitlement, there never has been, and there should never be such an entitlement. We are allowed to participate because some parties allow us to do so. The alternative is to have state-sponsored political parties and have the government make all the rules. That process usually ends in countries having a single political party, in which the candidate they select wins more than 90 percent of the vote.[/QUOTE]

With that attitude we will eventually get what we want...the end of political parties. This election more than ever has shown people they do not need to be tied to a political party and over the next decade you will finally start seeing the end to caring about who gets nominations and every candidate will run as 3rd party whether they win or not.