The Sway of A Party

A fellow Austenite had a very interesting take on the impending primaries of the much anticipated 2008 election. Austin based lawyer Bill Crocker has presented a plan that would allow states to begin the rotation in presidential primaries throughout the nation. The interesting take on this new proposal is the main source and his history. Crocker is not new to the political merry-go-round. He is one of the three Texans currently holding court on the Republican National Committee. His plan goes as follows. States would be divided into four regions. These four regions then lead off the presidential nominating for the next four years and starting in 2020, Texas and ten other states would have their time in the caucus spotlight. This is an interesting a probably needed modification to the current system. Unfortunately once again I am leery of the reason behind the changes. Interestingly enough the woman in charge, Kathy Haigler, of these plans belongs to yet another Republican run committee. Her reasoning for the change is to allow more majorly conservative voting states around the nation to have a better chance of having their voice heard. While I do believe this is a matter of freedom of speech and everyone’s right to vote, I feel that once again the conservative majority have found a way to make themselves believe they are the voting minority and with the turnouts of the previous two presidential elections, haven’t we found that the word of right is alive and well among these fifty states and should things be swung to a party that has had their chance or possibly to favor any party at all?