If parties were able to exercise some discretion in who qualifies for their nomination we wouldn't have Trump. If the cost of filtering out the raving reactionaries is that there's a bias toward the status quo, I'm not sure that's too steep a price.
And she wasn't kidding, either, 'cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock I'd ever seen come down the pike. He was covered with mussels.
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