“I always read things like this, but they’re hooey. There is no secret cabal who picks the GOP nominee.”
Don’t argue like a liberal. No one suggested that there is any “secret cabal.”
It is no secret at all that there are movers and shakers who have power in the GOP, and that it is this elite has great influence over who has a chance at the nomination.
“The primary voters, the rank and file, select the nominee with votes.”
Road apples. The ones who vote choose from among those they are offered, on the basis of the information they are fed. The liberal media have more influence over the choice of candidate than “the primary voters.”
As Oswald Spengler wrote, “What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. A forlorn little drop may settle somewhere and collect grounds on which to determine “The Truth”-but what it obtains is just its truth. The other, the public truth of the moment, which alone matters for effects and successes in the fact-world, is today a product of the press. What the press wills, is true. Its commanders evoke, transform, interchange truths. Three weeks of press work, and the truth is acknowledged by everybody....A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now, he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels is HIS liberty.”
“The problem is the Republican Party is not conservative enough. That’s what needs to change.”
That is one problem, yes. Another is that it is run by people who want it to become even less conservative. If you want it to become more conservative, it must be wrested from their blood-stained fingers. If that can’t be done, the party must die.
That sounds alot like a liberal argument to me.
We get the nominee the party voters vote for. Last go round, the list available included Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, Rudy Guiliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney and others.
The GOP voters voted for McCain. But I guess they don't have to take any personal responsibility in your world view. The media made them do it, following the direction of the "GOP elite", whoever the hell they are.
For your edification - McCain was the nominee because the GOP rank and file voted for him. They will also choose our next nominee.