By receiving more votes than your opponents - unless, that is, win the most votes for Lt. Governor, then, when "the party" says, shanks but no thanks - we want another - this is a subversion and a perversion of the democratic primary structures entrenched in our Republic.
Think, oh, I don't know ... Joe Leiberman ... ok, lose the democratic primary fair and square, and then say, "This is not acceptable" and run independent.
And have the entire democratic party good ole' boyz (and girlz) club - the incumbents club, let you keep the chairmanship of your committees.
That kind of shit gets real stinky, and real old, real soon.
Who needs the democratic party?
The Tea Partiers don't really need the republican party in all its present manifestations either.
That's exactly WHY the Tea Party got formed - to elect officials who would be responsive to their will.
And the entrenched incumbents ... well, they all ought to be sh*tting bricks now.
Yo, incumbents ... you ain't so safe as you once might have thought you was. And you might not ever get elected again.
Not to feel sorry for them - they can always go and become lobbyists, making WAY more money than they ever did as a congress critter (think Tom Daschle).
Or, have the supreme court appoint you 5-4.
Wasn't life simpler in the golden olden days when it was possible to buy into political office?
But then again, as long as the New York Yankees can't buy a world series every year, then my American dream that I can grow out to be president can be kept alive. President, that is, of bug house square.
President of ME.
That's an imposing enough gig right there.
