SamSpade
Well-Known Member
Which is as I see it. If my extended family nominates a member to attend a conference to represent our clan - I don't want the neighbors and strangers to have a say - it's our family. If the Boy Scouts want to have someone run for them, Greenpeace doesn't get to interfere. That is the way it is supposed to work. And I've always been cool with party leadership just outright picking the nominee, which is the way it once was. Nowadays, the conventions do not select a nominee - they more or less confirm what the primaries have already done.
And if they were all open, a lot of voters could simply nominate their favorite candidate in a small party, thus upending their whole point in the matter.