I need to stock up a hell of a lot more wine.

Sigh~

...have been closed here. Need to stock up.

If we had a legitimate media, rather than moron stenographer pools, this one could be easily knocked down once and for all, in five minutes flat.

Journalist: Primary process rigged? How? By whom?

The BS BS answer: The DNC has prevented BS voters from voting for me!

Journalist: States control the voting process, from accepting and logging registration forms to where and how people vote. What does the DNC have to do with that?

The BS BS goalpost-moving answer: By not registering my supporters to vote as Democrats! By not sending in their registrations!

Retort: WTF? Anyone and everyone can register without having anything at all to do with the DNC. They can register at the DMV or pick up a form at, oh, the library, fill it out and mail it in, without ever seeing hide nor hair of someone in the DNC. They don't even have to know the DNC exists to register to vote. Since most people are registered without the DNC's involvement, how does that rig the primary process?

The BS BS goalpost-moving answer: They rig it with the people that the party does sign up!

Retort: The DNC hardly ever has a direct hand in registering voters. Candidate campaigns, state parties and local groups are far more active with that, because they know the local registration process better, and it's in their interests to make sure that all registration forms get filled out and turned in properly. Once they turn it in, their involvement ends, then and there. So where is the rigging?

The BS BS goalpost-moving answer: They tell people how to vote, rather than letting them make up their own minds!

Retort: How? By staying out of it when your opponent runs ads and expresses where he stands on the issues?

The BS BS goalpost moving answer: By telling them who to vote for to keep me from winning!

Retort: You still haven't said how they accomplish it. Besides, even if they did send out marching orders to vote a certain way, since when does any voter have to obey? How would the DNC even know how someone will vote? They won't be going in the booth with you to force you to vote a certain way or filling out your ballot for you behind your back--Republicans do that. So again, how does the DNC rig the primary process against you, when they have almost no control over the registration process, no control over the election process, no mind-reading powers to know how anyone will vote, and no ability to fill out ballots for any voter, never mind millions of them? Or is the real problem that the process isn't rigged, but it makes you feel better to lie that it is, rather than facing the fact that the voters are choosing someone else as their candidate?

QEfuckingD.

It is a shame, but there it is. As they say, past performance is the best predictor of future behavior. Doubly so with an old man who prides himself on his 'consistency', and views compromise as anathema.

"You will not rise to the occasion. You will default to your level of training."