Hey, Do 'Commoners' Have Any Say In Political Party Candidates?

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     LOOK, the news is abuzz about Sarah Palin, again!  (Screeams! -- joy, -- rage...it depends on who is screaming.)  Yep, Sarah, you've set the headlines and political world abuzz.  Why?  Is it because she' a woman?  Is it due to her conservative views?  -- Maybe her religion?  Maybe because she's got a young child and maybe some controversy with one of her daughters?  It is a political gold-strike!  But,....it also brings to mind the whole political process and the choosing of candidates for all parties.       Who ever decided just WHO gets to decide who will or won't run for office, especially the highest offices?  No-one ever asked me.  Did anyone ever ask you?  Do you ever recall someone talking, perhaps in your hearing about it, saying,"You know, we need to decide who we should get to run for our party this next election."  Nope, I can't recall any conversation like that in my entire life.  Hey, this is important.  In communist countries, don't they sometimes hold elections?  Who selects their candidates?  Somebody must, right?  Do you suppose that all American candidates for every party are just random entries into the field? (Did I just hear someone laugh? -- Yeah, and you thought this computer gizmo only worked one-way, too -- LOL.)        Bush 1, Quail, Clinton, Kerry, Bush 2, McCain, Obama, Clinton 2, -- did they each decide on their own to run when they did?  Why do we only seem to have politicians doing that?  Why not get "normal" people, too? -- Oh yeah, Ron Paul, does he qualify as "normal"?  Well, you know he's a doctor, right?  And what if some political party had all good candidates throw in on an election and the others had only mediocre and bad candidates?  Wouldn't that be wasteful, like troops wasting all their ammo shooting at tin cans?  Don't they have to save some good candidates for later on?  If so, who decides?  Who tells someone,"Sorry, but you'll have to wait to run for the next election, not this one."  Good grief, America has so many wealthy people and so many politicians, why isn't it a "free-for-all" before every election?        So, ...I'm guessing there must be some sort of political hierarchy calling the shots and deciding who gets to TRY to become our next president.  If so, is that really democracy?  If not, is anyone doing anything about it or even bothered about it?  Have you ever seen a poor person run for president?  Yeah, it takes money, right?  -- What about a poor person who is really, really good at things,...you know, "stuff",...knows a lot of important, helpful stuff, ...smart, lots of good character, qualities, attributes, ...maybe not a politician.  Yeah, that's a good one, maybe someone who isn't a career politician could run our nation for a change.  Brilliant!  How about getting someone who started from nothing, is honest, has all the right values, and yet became a fantastic success in business?  Ah, c'mon, don't tell me there is no such thing.  There must be, right? ...Right?  ....Well, there might be, somewhere, huh?       Okay, well, at least how about letting us, the people, have a live, television voting audience poll of who the contenders might be?  Have we done that before?  If so, I don't remember that, either.  All I remember is that every election we keep getting a handfull of contenders, many of whom I never would have picked, personally, then we have to get all excited, fight like cats and dogs and wind up not really liking our final candidate or whomever gets elected.  Sound familiar?  So, I wanna know, who's pulling the strings, and why don't we ever get someone as a president who really knows what to do without having to have a ton of advisors pulling strings of influence and manipulation.  Is it so they have someone to blame when it all blows up in their face?  If so, aren't there just gobs of real business leaders and real experts in the fields associated with the duties of a president who can do the job like a walk in the park?  Instead, we all seem to have little or no choice but the ones conveniently crafted and orchestrated for us to have, and that hardly seems like a democratically-elected government selected by the people, for the people, now does it?