[LS]

It is. But look at history. What happened to the second Democrat Party in the 1850s when they no longer represented what their voters wanted? They're called the Whigs, and they're gone.

But, hey, I am optimistic. It might take one more cycle, but the damage the elites have done to themselves is obvious in the campaigns of Fiorina, Cruz, Carson, and Trump. It's no secret why two or three of those four are at the top of every poll and why Jeb is struggling to get into the top four anywhere.

[Lazamataz]

It's no secret why two or three of those four are at the top of every poll and why Jeb is struggling to get into the top four anywhere.

Right, but the party machinery made sure stuff like that doesn't matter. The GOP convention around the time of Romney made a lot of rules changes intended to thwart any challengers to the Elites. The primary process is so Byzantine that it produced McCain -- MCCAIN???!? -- and Romney. I predict that Jeb will, in fact, get the Republican nomination.