Virginia Republicans learned an important lesson this week: You can’t have your cake and eat it, too. Not that they didn’t try to do otherwise. In an attempt to prevent Democrats from voting in their March 6 primary, the State Board of Elections gave the state GOP permission last month to require primary voters to sign an obviously unenforceable “loyalty oath” promising to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee. But such a pledge turns off voters — including a good segment of the GOP faithful who find it insulting.
