He was chosen by the elites that now run the world.
They cut a deal with him after 2000, guaranteeing him the nomination in 2008 if he would wait in relative silence until they could manipulate the masses via the Enemedia and work behind the scenes to change the rules that would push him to the forefront, IMNSHO.
He became the "candidate" by:
1. Allowing the Enemedia and elites to tell us who our candidate will be.
2. Allowing the Enemedia to conduct the "debates" which turned them into demonrat propaganda circuses.
3. Allowing the Enemedia to determine who the sheeple were permitted to see/hear during said debates.
4.Front-end open primaries where "independents" and cross overs made the choice.
5. Emphatically declaring the winner before more than 50% of the country had an opportunity to vote.
6.Last minute rule changes by the republican party that no one seems to know when or how these rules were changed.
7.Winner take all primaries when garnering 36% or less of the vote nets you 100% of the delegates.
8. Beginning the primaries an ungodly early 10 months before the general election and 8 months prior to the convention.
9. Penalizing states for changing their primary dates in an effort to have some voice in the crooked and cooked primary election.
10. And the ever popular...vote fraud!
And yet there is no outrage. There is no unified plan to take on the gross usurpation of our right to determine our leaders. There is no longer a government of, by and for the people. Now go back to sleep until November 5th.
#4 is the one we definitely need to change before the 2012 election. There is absolutely no way in H*LL that a person who is not part of the party should be able to vote in a party election. There is no doubt that this is how McShame became our nominee. At no time did he win a plurality of Republican votes. Most of the Republican votes in the early primaries were split between Romney and Huckster.