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Not a conventional presidential race
 If you're in the same boat I'm in, you need to pay a visit to your local Registrar of Voters office by Feb. 22 to register as a Republican, assuming you desire to participate in the March 24 Republican presidential primary in Louisiana.
That's the price we conservative independent voters must pay if we want to have a say in which Republican presidential candidate gets a leg up in securing the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention scheduled for later this year.
Thanks to the convoluted process that the state Republican party ginned up to award delegates to a presidential candidate, the winner of the GOP primary in March won't walk away with every Louisiana delegate in his pocket. No, the primary winner gets 20 delegates while the remainder of the delegates are either controlled by the party hierarchy or divvied up at the state convention in June or are awarded by the party's executive committee.
Don't ask me how the state party came up with the formula it employs in awarding delegates. You can rest assured it was contrived to firmly control which candidate receives the party's delegates, or to put it more bluntly, to keep the lunatic fringe of the party at bay.
From a birds-eye view, it appears Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is in the driver seat to capture the GOP nomination. In Louisiana, well-heeled Republicans are backing Romney while the grass-roots activists are fractured. Some of them support former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Some of them are backing former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Then there's the faction that believes in U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.For the full story, subscribe to the The Concordia Sentinel's NEW E-Edition! |
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