Pure, no. Just free of left-wingers and people who seek power for its own sake. And I would cite the nomination of Romney as evidence the process is quite corrupt. Don’t you find it odd that a man who governed in a way that would make most Democrats proud wound up as the Republican nominee for president?
He won the primaries against a field of candidates. We had a lousy field and did not unite behind any one notRomney candidate. You could see it coming long ago, and many did. We had to either get a better candidate or unite behind someone else. Didn't happen.
Blaming some nefarious 'elite' has no foundation in truth.