REFUSE? No, but there are steps that can be taken to drive unwanted candidates out of a race, or even off a ticket.
State and Local Democrats regularly find ways to get crazed followers of Lyndon LaRouche off their ballots.
And when the embarrassing pest Abe Hirschfeld managed to win the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of New York, Mario Cuomo declared war on him, and got him removed.
Now, from a purely practical standpoint, I don’t blame Cuomo at all for wanting to get rid of Abe Hirschfeld, a perennial candidate for something or other. But Cuomo proved himself (not for the first or last time time) a cold, cruel, heartless prick who’d stoop at nothing to get rid of an enemy (and it was mighty easy to get on Mario’s enemies list!).
Out of the race, yes. Many states have arcane laws governing the preparation of nominating petitions to get on the ballot, and if you put such petitions under scrutiny, many candidates can be disqualified. Eccentric or under-resourced candidates are especially likely to cut corners and submit invalid petitions.
Off the ticket, no. Once a candidate is certified for ballot access, it is virtually impossible to dislodge them. In the extreme case, LaRouche followers won nomination for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State when Illinois Democrats went to sleep in 1986. There was nothing the party could do about it, after the fact. They had to run their own alternatives as Independents.
You may remember the story of Todd Akin, who won Missouri’s Republican Senate primary and then made a comment about how women who were “legitimate victims” of rape didn’t get pregnant.
This embarrassed the national Republican leadership, including Mitch McConnell, Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn, Orrin Hatch, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and Mitt Romney, all of whom publicly called on Akin to quit the race.
We both agree that Trump won’t be nominated. I would give 10:1 on that sort of bet, if there was an easy way of doing so. I was just correcting the factual record: Trump has been getting extensive and sometimes fawning coverage in the conservative media. Limbaugh. Fox News.
Are you saying that you don’t think he will be in the top tier Fox News debate this fall? I think he will.
There has been at least one case recently where a candidate espousing Lyndon Larouche’s beliefs has won the nomination for a Democratic state-wide office. It was a case where the Republican candidate was likely to win anyway. The state Democratic committee couldn’t take this person off the ballot, but they could announce that they didn’t support the candidate themselves. (I hope that I’m remembering the details right.)
That sounds like something George “Clinton Foundation stooge” Stephanopoulos and Paul “I get my news/PR releases directly from the White House” Begala would say.
No. There are no Clinton or Sanders-supporting Democrats on the editorial shows or writing opinion pieces anywhere.** Measure for Measure** has made it clear that even acknowledging the existence of Democrats in the opinion space is a conspiracy theory about the “liberal media.” Who are we to disagree?
It wasn’t “recent”, but this happened in 1986 in Illinois, where two LaRouche supporters managed to win the Democratic nominations for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State in Illinois. (Note that, in Illinois, the Secretary of State is a very powerful office.) It led to the Democratic nominee for governor to run on a third-party ticket, where he lost (despite apparently having been favored in the race).
which combines unsubstantiated claims (candidacy propped up…) with delusional ones (has no real supporters).
I provide facts:
…and Hab has a meltdown:
Where did I deny the existence of liberal editorialists? They exist at the New Republic, Mother Jones et al after all. I just substantiated that Trump gets tons of conservative airplay.
Hab didn’t like the argument provided, so he substituted one more to his liking. Comedy Gold.
kenobi 65, I note that the link you give gives another more recent case, although the details are different. A Larouche supporter won the Democratic nomination in 2010 and 2012 for U.S. Representative and was disavowed by the state Democratic party. I probably confused the case you talked about with the one I just mentioned.
We both agree that Trump won’t be nominated. I would give 10:1 on that sort of bet, if there was an easy way of doing so. I was just correcting the factual record: Trump has been getting extensive and sometimes fawning coverage in the conservative media. Limbaugh. Fox News.