Diluting the candidate pool for the Bush and Clinton show

(Chicago Tribune) - ...With so many candidates in the Republican field, big government bullies like Christie and Trump, big government dynastic heirs like Jeb!, conservatives like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and the libertarian Sen. Rand Paul, here's what could happen. The one with the money and the organization benefits. That's Jeb Bush. It's no accident, because politics is no accident. ...The establishment pretends it creates jobs when it doesn't, and pretends it values individual liberty when it doesn't. But there's one thing they don't have to pretend...The Republican establishment does not want voters to see contrast between Bush and [a real anti neo-con like] Paul. They will not allow this. Since Bush's brother and the neo-cons led Americans into that ill-fated war in Iraq, the Republican Party has been in serious need of a real debate about its future, a debate between big government GOP types who back the Bush Restoration and the conservative-libertarian wing that does not. But that would threaten the establishment's control. And they won't take that chance. It's all about arithmetic...Elections are won in the primaries. The bosses dilute the opposition, throw in extra candidates, knowing the numbers. They've already done the math. It's all about control. Read more.