Michael Dell?
Hollywood cash?
Potential. The Dells of the world tend to donate for the access they get to the government table. My hunch is there's a great ROI when one considers the number of Dell computers purchased by the government.
Part of the Coors family used to be very good to the conservative movement...funding everything from the Conservative Club in DC (now defunct) to the Heritage Foundation (alive and kicking).
The big problem is that our educational institutions have brainwashed today's capitalist successes. I deal with multimillionaire entrepreneurs on a daily basis. The vast majority voted for Obama because it was the cool thing to do. The evils of socialism and communism have never directly affected their lives. Most know little about the Cold War because they were born in the 1980s. When Obama proposes a national citizens security service, they think of a worthy public good cause...not Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.
I suspect it will take 4/8 years of being mugged by socialists for them to truly understand the difference between big government and limited government. By then, it will probably be too late.
Thank the hippies who took over the education system in this country. Took them 40 years but they've created an Idiocracy.