Reply #1: Watching this Republican primary, including the media, it becomes more and more obvious that

[No Elephants]

primary winners are pre-ordained by their party's establishment (some would say simply by the .0001%) and all the rest is kabuki.

Remember that story about a speech Harry Reid made to Democrats saying Obama was articulate and clean cut, or whatever?

Almost everyone looked at that purely from the race standpoint.

I saw that, but I also thought, "Why was Harry Reid trying to sell Obama to high-powered Democrats before the primaries even began?"