They won't tell us who they are, but they are spending tens of millions as part of 'Americans Elect' to nominate and to field an 'Independent' presidential candidate in 2012.
David Holthouse, Media Matters for America. August 30, 2011.
Jim Gilchrist is sought by GOP candidates to burnish their tough-on-immigrant credentials, and treated by the media as a legitimate authority on immigration issues.
David Edwards and Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 6, 2010.
South Carolina's Republican senators take issue over the Tea Party movement: Lindsey Graham says it's destined to "die out." Jim DeMint begs to differ.
You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women's rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights.
Palin's speech was her boilerplate of non sequiturs and cognitive disconnections, but in the interview that followed, she revealed her hand in a game for the presidency.