Why would they throw money at Pat? To act as a lobbyist?
Outside of political junkies like me, his influence is not all that grand these days. Sort of like George Will or Maureen Dowd. Or maybe Buchanan still does have some pull.
They have plenty of dough and use it on all fronts. They even use it on trolls on internet pages that are smaller than FR.
It reminds me of the predicament of the government of El Salvador in the 1980s. The FMLN guerrillas had more information offices around the world than the Salvadoran government had embassies and consulates. On campuses all over the world, in the media, and among all sorts of squish groups like Amnesty International El Salvador was the symbol of evil while the largely foreign-born communist terrorists of the FMLN were regarded as freedom fighters.
I think he still has pull with the RNC and all the other one world RINO’s.