Sen. Bob Bennett makes a point while talking to delegates prior to the start of the GOP State Convention at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.
August Miller, Deseret News archives
I have read so much in this paper of hand-wringing over the state GOP caucus system that eliminated Bob Bennett and Olene Walker or thinking that convention delegates were manipulated by political thieves.
The problem for the liberal end of the GOP is that unprincipled governance has finally motivated and got the people involved. Delegates selected by the neighborhood meetings are far more informed than the general populace.
RINO's were happy with the caucus system when they had control. Now that they are losing control, they would prefer a primary election where the well meaning and less informed voters can be easily controlled by the high priced campaigning and media support of the GOP checkered pants good-old-boys that gave us our past governors and Legislature.
Bruce B. Allen
Salt Lake City
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You think conservatives aren't guilty of "unprincipled governance"? Wake up, buddy. And heaven forbid that the voters should decide who will lead them. Yours is a position of heavy-handedness and imposition of the views of the insiders More..
Your use of the term RINO in your letter merely confirms, as ironically, you attempt to defend the caucus system, why in Utah it no longer reflects the values of the community.
RINO suggests some purity test, and if that test is not More..
With all due respect to the author who I have no doubt is sincere in his posting but this is one of the funniest letters to the editor I have seen in a long time. The terms "liberal end of the GOP" haven't been put together in I can't More..