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"It’s pretty well demonstrated the party establishment and the Democrats are in bed together. Might as well stop insulting our intelligence and they should declare it publicly, that their sole mission is to stop non-leftist candidates from making it to a general election, and only ringers need apply."

I just finished reading a bio of Pat Buchanan. In 1999, when he was thinking about running for president (again), he and his sister, who ran his campaigns, were invited to lunch by a congressman from Utah, representing the GOP establishment. This congressman told Buchanan we think it's great you want to run, but under no circumstances go after George W. Bush; he's going to be the nominee. The guy said the money had been lined up and they had a timetable for victory in the primaries, and he WOULD be the one.

Buchanan's sister asked where Bush stood on the issues, and the response was, "It doesn't matter." Later she remarked that it was impossible to tell people their primary votes would matter because the whole thing was fixed.