re: #154 MarineMomSue

I agree, C/P. (see my #56) You can’t throw somebody out of a political party. Can’t you just see the rush to the courthouse steps with lawsuits in hand, if some party tried?

Actually, I don’t think that would be a problem. Political parties are given enormous leeway (McCain/Feingold notwithstanding), and can largely do whatever they please internally. The hard part is that neither party has the mechanism to perform such an exorcism. It would strengthen the third-party types enormously, which would be an awful drawback—parliaments are susceptible to runaways in a way that our system is not.