Why are people trying to keep the Republican nomination a two person race?

The Republican Party has never been a bottom-up party, it's always been top-down. It's always been run by a tight circle of party and industry leaders. Its never believed in allowing voters to pick their candidate.

In a way I can see it. In other countries, to belong to a political party you have to pay dues, attend meetings, etc. You have to have a certain amount of committment. It's like belong to a club or a church. In the US, you can belong to the Republican Party by simply stating that you are a Republican when you register, and then you get to vote in the primaries.

The Republican leadership doesn't believe it should work this way. THEY should pick the candidate, or at least give their voters a choice between two or three (at most) candidates they approve of. The way to do this is to (1) raise the price of admission so you can't even announce your candidacy unless you've got $50 million in the bank, and (2) elimate most of the candidates before the primary season even begins.

In 2000 the leaders picked GW Bush long before the election season even began. They lined up all the money behind him and when he entered the race the firstest with the mostest the news media crowned him as the presumptive candidate. When John McCain won the first big primary, in New Hampshire, the party itself torpedoed him with a vicious slimy smear campaign in the next big primary state, South Carolina.

The GOP is all about a particular agenda. When you vote Republican, you aren't voting for one guy, his ideas, his proposals and agenda, you are voting for the Party Agenda. This was really obvious in 2008 where all the candidates had all the same opinions and positions on all the same issues. Perry and Romney seem different now, but it doesn't really matter which of them gets the nomination. The rhetoric is different, the campaigning style, but their presidencies would be no different from Bush's. More deregulation, more tax cuts for gazillionaires, more War on Terror.

My answer is similar to darth's.

Long ago, there was no Republican Primary in my state, because there were so few that would run as a republican. My father, being an intelligent man, registered as a democrat and voted in the primary for the most idiotic democrat running. If he got nominated, then the GOP candidate was a shoe in to win.

Main Scam news coverage of the GOP Primary process is done in a similar fashion.

There is no money in Newspaper, but there are freaking bidding wars to own them. THe rich wants to control what we think and so they want to control who we vote for. The news focus on certain candidates either to make the party fail or a particular candidate to succeed. SOme times it's not intentional, but since most in the media are liberals, tehir idea of who is a legitimate candidate is different from us.

Most media types have abandoned journalism and instead like to create stories on their own. Rather than report the news, they are trying to make the news.

They need someone who will lose to Obama. And they are scared to death of Ron Paul.

That is why it is So important to do your own researxh on each candidate.

RICK PERRY AND MITT ROMNEY ARE COMMIE ULTRA FAR LEFT LIBERALS. WE NEED A TRUE RIGHT WING CANDIDATE HERO!

It is easier to choose that way.