[CapitalistCrusader]

Again, ask your question in the context of Reagan. When he won the nomination and election, he got to reshape the party machinery.

Then how is it that the Bushes have so much control over the party machinery? Doesn't seem to have worked.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Then how is it that the Bushes have so much control over the party machinery? Doesn't seem to have worked.

Because Reagan left office and hasn't been President for nearly 28 years. Doesn't mean that the party establishment wasn't reshaped by him when he was in power.