Published for The Arena on Politico.com, August 30th, 2010:

While the general approach should be to let the voters decide, there are clearly cases where parties will try to keep out inappropriate candidates such as Nazis who could harm the party and the country. The problem is that people will differ on the definition of “inappropriate.” It sounds like Gov. Barbour would have parties intervene in only the rarest of cases, and he is probably wise to take that approach.

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