“...and I think that there were some good candidates coming up who weren’t going to be RNC favorites but were young, aware and had real plans - until an old rich guy decided that the next fun thing would be to buy himself the candidacy.”
Care to name any?
The old rich guy is obviously Trump, but we also had Walker, Fiorina, and Jindal, all people with proven economic success. Fiorina saved a company athough it meant merging and firing a lot of deadwood (which is still very resentful about it), Walker successfully opposed the civil service unions that have totally devastated our cities, and Jindal managed to clean things up in a corrupt Dem fiefdom and get a lot of black people on board with his more responsible, pro-growth approach.
But everything is so media driven nowadays that nobody cares about or even knows or wants to know what a candidate really thinks.