You tell 'em CT !
CT's post is backwards.
The Republican Party elite decides who's going to be the candidate. The Democrats to their credit let the rank and file decide. And that to their detriment will cost them 2008.
The GOP elite made us swallow Ford, Reagan they didn't get their way, read my lips Bush, Dumb Dole and W. Lucky for us W is sticking to his promises to the base.