@SpaceCowboy:
Can someone explain me something.
In Europe, as everyone knows, the political scenario isn´t like the US, where apparently only two parties are relevant.
Independently of the different variations of presidentialist, semi-presidentialist and Parliamentary systems around, usually the head of the executive branch must go to elections either in one of the existing parties or run as an independent.
Running in one of the existing parties requires pretty much a life time in the party internal system, going up "ranks", probably get elected in some local elections before going to the "nationals", admission by the party central committee if there is one and all that stuff.
So a guy that came out of nowhere would have no chance to run for whatever position we´re talking about in one of the existing parties unless he has some work to show beforehand, even if he is a militant of the party. While he can show himself and announce his intention of running, the party´s internal organization would never allow it, even if the person is well known to the general public.
My question is: How can guys like Ben Carson, Donald Trump and, I guess, Carly Fiorina, with little to no political background, manage to get up there with political experienced candidates for popular elections? Doesn´t the party have some sort of internal organization that would block that intention from candidates if they consider them unfit? Every Republican keeps criticizing DT about his positions about a long list of subjects, but doesn´t the fact that he is even allowed to run toe-to-toe with others means that he is part of everything the party stands for?
Basically, isn´t there anything that forces the candidates to run independently, if the party considers them unfit according to their political ideology?
There's a lot of internal ranking, yeah, and I'm sure that some candidates are more groomed than others to become president, but so long as you think you have a chance at the presidency (candidates will often make an exploratory committee to gauge that, although I'd imagine some of them are particularly optimistic), you can throw your hat into the race so long as you fit the legal requirements for becoming a president.
For the most part, purported political outsiders don't really have too much of an effect on the race because of things like lack of experience or crazy views and generally don't actually join in, but because of the large fractures within the republican party as of recently, not only are there a smorgasbord of candidates running who think they have a chance of winning or an upset, there's also the issue that the base that they have been appealing to is becoming more anti-establishment, with a consequence of that being that outsiders end up having a greater level of influence than they normally would.
 
