Common Sense

State Senator Abel Maldanado commented that the Republican's refusal to allow independent voters to vote in the GOP primary was "suicidal." The senator said "I believe our party is at a defining moment in our history and your decision to exclude 20 percent of voters from our primary will send us down a dangerous path from which there might be no return or recovery,'' Maldonado told Nehring in his letter released today. "The path of irrelevance.'' He's right.

Some of the leading "conservatives" in the state like Jon Fleischman want purity in their primary. They'll get that too but Maldanado is still right.