Upstate SC GOP officials openly talking about ratf***ing the SC primary

[scheming daemons]

Link to tweet

They are practically shouting from the rooftops who they want to face Trump.

[George II]

1. That's the problem with OPEN primaries. I don't want republicans choosing our candidate.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Yep and he won't do a thing to stop that from happening either.

[TheRealNorth]

8. What is Bernie supposed to do?

He doesn't run the SC Primaries. I am getting sick of the supporters of a certain candidate trying to blame Bernie and progressive democrats for shit the that the media and Republicans do.

From what I have seen the past few weeks, the Bernie Bros ain't the problem when it comes to creating divisions in the party. If the moderates just coalesced around a single candidate, Bernie wouldn't even be an issue.

[tishaLA]

3. Well, the junior senator from VT did tell Ari Melber

"of course we knew" Russians were supporting his campaign during the Democratic primaries in 2016 and his campaign said and did nothing.

[Tiggeroshii]

4. That's not quite what ratfucking is

Ratfucking is using an untested app, with deficient training, and having an ill apportioned amount of resources to account for easily anticipated and normal activities like calling in results. It isn't an intentional ratfucking, but it certainly ratfucked the hell out of us.

What is being described in the OP is simply the use of democracy to achieve a goal. If you don't like it, get more people to vote for somebody else or convince those Republicans to vote for somebody else. That's what democracy is.

[TwilightZone]

6. Unless the problems with the app were intentional, the term doesn't apply.

An intentional act is inherent in the concept.

[Zolorp]

7. Get over it.

It was human error on a laughable scale, not some nefarious conspiracy theory nonsense.

[Tiggeroshii]

9. Nobody mentioned conspiracy theories

But to say that nobody would anticipate this is a gross level of incompetence of enormous proportions.

[Autumn]

13. Especially when the IDP was warned about the app in mid Jan and still went with it.

[BlueIdaho]

5. Once every four years

Republicans shout about crossing the line and voting in the Democratic primaries. But history and statistics prove they never show up in the numbers necessary to have an impact. Of course the best solution is - closed primaries - but that’s a matter for state legislatures. They decide.

[Tiggeroshii]

10. At the end of the day, if people vote cross party in open primaries, it is usually because they

Felt strongly about a candidate. Not always, but it is a considerable enough effort to deter from actual ratfuckery.

[BlueIdaho]

11. ?

Did a typo sneak in there? bnb?

[Tiggeroshii]

12. Yes. And I thought the subject line was longer...

My autocorrect on my phone adds weird things to my sentences at times.

[BlueIdaho]

14. No worries!

[Cha]

15. Of course they are.