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Could Undisclosed Campaign Contributions Impact 2012 Republican Primaries?

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Politics.
Nov 12th, 2010

One of the biggest political stories of 2010 is the role of mega-bucks undisclosed campaign contributions pouring into races to help defeat candidates that otherwise might have had a better fighting chance. In most cases those candidates were Democrats. But now Walter Shapiro writes in Politics Dailyy that GOPers might be pleased now in how this new political world operated but could find that there will be complications in 2012.

According to Shapiro, the political landscape is now ripe for undisclosed big bucks contributions to potentially have all kinds of impacts — including on the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries:

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And, indeed, you can already see some possible areas where this money could come into play. Several news stories now have indicated that GOP establishment bigwigs want to find a way to short-circuit Sarah Palin. Will some of this money that was so helpful to Tea Party and Palin backed candidates in 2012 be put to use against her since [s]he is perceived by Republican estabslishment figures as someone who would be a disaster in a general election? Or will there be big bucks in undisclosed campaign contributions trying to defeat those GOP etablishment candidates that Palin & Co are trying to get off the political stage?

Oftentimes when things happen and there is a predicted consequence there are also subsidiary consequences. In this instance, 2010 may have been the debut on the political stage of something that will be seen in different acts, with different actors in… different roles..

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I agree with Joe that 2012 primaries will be interesting... but I dont think his conclusion is accurate.

I think Palin has good support from the Oil/Ga/Chem industry.   And, that is precisely what the moderates need to worry about. Another big inexperienced excuse maker whiner getting powered by big oil.