A last thing to mention--remember McCain, his finances were horrible and only the moderates support, but he was able to win the nomination.
Money is not everything. Principles and willingness to speak your mind are better indicators of success for GOP candidates.
Since when? The GOP has nominated opportunists who tell stupid people what they want to hear and then they do what the 1% want.
McCain won because all the other candidates were unacceptable.
Fred Thompson was a dud.
Rudy Guliani was unacceptable to the Religious right. (He did himself no favors thinking he could skip Iowa and NH).
The Evangelicals assholes wouldn't support Romney because he was a liberal and a Mormon. (They got over it by 2012, but that was only because there was a Negro in the White House. Romney could have worshiped C'Thulhu and those racist fucks would have supported him.)
Huckabee wasn't acceptable to the 1%. He had some funny idea that the central message of Christianity wasn't "Tax Cuts for Rich People". He checked the Bible, Jesus didn't say that once.
so that just left McCain, and it wasn't like the Republican was going to win in 2008 anyway, given how badly Bush fucked up everything.
Now, yeah, the fact that Jeb Bush is a Bush SHOULD be a deal killer. But that would require Republicans to do thing like ask 'Why is everything we support such a fucking disaster for 99% of Americans?"
The 1% are counting on people like you forgetting what a disaster Dubya and Poppy were.