If the Establishment is unsatisfied with their candidates, does that mean we can nominate Ron Paul?

In 2000 the leaders picked GW Bush to be their nominee. They picked him before the primary season even started, the primaries were no more than a rubber stamp. Bush made the perfect candidate for them because he was relatively young and unknown through most of the country. He had no real history in politics, and no real political thinking of his own. He could be counted on to just read what they put in front of him. So the party leaders picked Bush and lined up all the money behind him, and when he declared his candidacy first, with the biggest war chest, the media fell in line and declared him the presumptive nominee. From the very start they treated Bush like the winner, and all the others as non-serious also-rans.//