[Hoot Gibson]

I cannot believe you just said that.

So the wealthy and more affluential person's vote should count more than mine?

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?

I think I will take a few days away from the political threads because the last thing I want to do is lose my temper and say things that I will most certainly regret in the future.

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.

Let me tell you something Hoot Gibson before I leave. I have worked and/or gone to school every day of my life since I was 11. My husband worked two or three jobs so we wouldn't need to apply for any kind of government aid, i.e. food stamps, medical card. He did that because he had too much pride to admit that we couldn't make it. Well, he was right because we DID make it. He is the son of a totally disabled veteran, but CHOSE to fight in Viet Nam because of that pride. He paid, and is still paying, a great price.

My vote counts and SHOULD count.

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.
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Lastly if my husband ever did run for President, I would have more sense than to announce at a public speech that he is an immigrant!!!

Later guys.

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.