You need to explain this a little better for me to understand what you just meant. Maybe I'm getting your point and the parties shouldn't have a nominee process at all just a general election where as many candidates that wanted to run should be the choices. If RP believes that is the best way to go then why bother with pretending and lying to all of us that he is a republican? Deciding to seek the republican nomination, when that doesn't work out for him he changes his stripes to run as an independent. I see such a move as not making him much different than all of the other lying politicians. It certainly doesn't make him stand out from the lying crowd as a better candidate, just another one that will lie and deceive to obtain the goal he desires. I think we should expect much better. (Not that we are getting better with our other options.) Now this is all speculation, when he loses the republican nomination and decides to run as an independent will the name calling be earned. I can't believe his supporters would want him to be such a two faced loser.