Civics Lessons

So, you have to be registered as a member of a political party in order to vote in one of their primaries in most states, that I get. However that registration doesn't compel you to vote for their nominee in the general election, which is clearly untenable when you have a bunch of totally unelectable candidates who might actually end up the nominee. And it doesn't apply in Virginia. So, if you're the Virginia Republican Party, where anybody can vote in any primary regardless of party affiliation and you think that's just untenable, you go ahead and make people SIGN AN OATH that they will vote for the nominee, whomever it may be, before you'll let them vote in the Republican primary. Unenforceable? Of course. Still not so much in keeping with the American Way? I'd say so.

Also, I bet you didn't know how committed to the truth honorable Virginians are (unlike Brett, the most dishonorable Virginian I know) -- the Roanoke Times awesomely points out that

Honorable Virginians do not give their word lightly and will not lie, even under these obtuse circumstances. We hope, too, that they put candidates' ideas, character and experience ahead of party affiliation.

I love the word obtuse.