What Christie Did To Get A Reputation As A Political Bully Even In College

[JDPriestly]

11. Actually, the nominationg process is not very open. The rank and file get to line up behind

candidates that have been vetted and picked by some mysterious process that involves a lot of corporate money. That is the reality. And there are usually only two choices with enough money behind them to get to second base. I think that the Wolf-pac initiative to get states to pass an amendment establishing that corporations are not people for the purposes of the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights and that elections should be entirely funded with public money is a good idea. It's hard to get the wording right, but the idea is important.

We have the impression that we pick the candidates in a democratic manner, but in fact very often the news media and the gossip-mill members of the press do it for us.