FAUX Ailes attempt to seat repub president in 2012.

@shinobinoz Said

"Ailes wields sweeping influence over the Republican party. The conservative media titan has spent the past several years pumping up a slate of potential 2012 presidential nominees, such as Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, who have enjoyed lucrative salaries and priceless exposure as paid talking heads on his network."

@crazylikeafox Said

Yet it also says his supposed candidates aren't doing that well, which would mean he DOESN'T wield sweeping influence over the Republican Party. Either he has such influence or his choices aren't being considered by the Right. Which is it? Because I can't see how it can be both.

@shinobinoz Said

It states that the repubs all are vetted by him. Perhaps because he has so much influence his picks are doomed to failure?
How can it not be both?

@jonnythan Said

A Republican candidate could not do well without the backing of Fox.

@crazylikeafox Said

I think you give FOX way too much credit. Surely you know the vast majority of Republicans don't swallow everything FOX says wholesale.

@crazylikeafox Said

It lists 4 people, all of which are doing badly. If his influence is as the article implies then those 4 should be at the top of the list. Yet they aren't. It doesn't speak well of his influence if we aren't interested in giving his choices the Republican candidacy.