I keep hearing about all these mysterious “moderate Republicans” who are afraid of a primary challenge. Where the fuck are all these “moderate Republicans” – who seem from the polls to represent a majority of them – during the primaries? Why the holy fuck aren’t they voting? Do they not *know* how to vote in the fucking primaries? Do the “moderates” not register as Republicans or pay attention to primaries? When you go to restrictive closed primaries (as the GOP has in many states specifically in reaction to “moderates” influencing their Presidential picks too much) and you add in America’s historical shitty turnout in anything but the Big Ones (Presidential cycle general elections)  – really, it is terrible and has been since before primaries took over for closed party nominations – the base always has the ability to dominate primaries. So stupid.