All three of those mentioned are bought and paid for no doubt, just look at how all them responded to the birther issue, is was NEVER covered in any meaningful manner.
I lost some respect for all three of them after that.
Hacks, all of them. It’s usually easy to tell who has been bought. First sign is the book deal. It’s the most popular form of lower rung bribery. A couple hundred pages of ghostwritten tripe, bought by think tnks and party insiders by the pallet and dumped into the local landfill. They’ll lather, rinse and repeat every couple years if you’re still on board. But go outside the bounds set for them to run as the loyal opposition on a given issue, well, you end up with very public legal problems with your prescription drug abuse.