primary

There is one thing you lose that can never be regained when selecting a Primary over a party process: FLEXIBILITY.

The candidate calls on RPV to stick with the compromise convention, and revels in their decision not to.

Followers of our favorite social media network and the blogs have a decent understanding of the primary-convention vote that happened on Saturday, but many of the other items need some further explanation.

Bryce Reeves is first out of the gate with an email to supporters calling on the Republican Party of Virginia’s State Central Committee to adhere to the 2015 compromise.

“Party Unity” is a tenuous and fragile thing. It requires men and women of character on both sides of the divide to carefully consider compromise, open to trusting that the other side will behave with the same level of decorum and integrity.

Open and Closed Primaries as well as Conventions all have their own virtues and vice. Understanding that whichever method you prefer is neither perfect nor more virtuous than the others would be a step in the right direction.

Party committee responsible for determining nomination method granted Dave Brat’s request despite counter-effort by allies of former Rep. Eric Cantor