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Information for gullible and overexcited conservatives to people who can part them with their money. right? and if you are a person who has long been struck by and fascinated by how similar the conservative be afraid direct mail that asks for money looks to the kind of direct mail that tries to scam your grandmother out of her save remember fred thompson and the reverse mortgage thing? yeah. it is amazing to see. if you have been watching this over time is one of the amazing things about it is how persistent it is. it just doesn't go away. if you have any conservative sort of name for yourself...

The street. i mean mike huckabee, for whatever you think of him now, he came in second the last time the republicans nominated somebody for president. in the 2008 election, mike huckabee essentially came in second to john mccain. which is now the part where i tell you that the guy who came in second this year, the guy who came in second to mitt romney, where does he work now? he works at world net daily, which is admittedly hilarious, because it's a mad libs choose your own adventure. plug in muslim, guy, murder, communist and michelle and see what comes out. but in addition to being inadverte...

Freedomworks that you scam people out of their money, thinking it's for the campaign and it really just gets spent on something that you're going to profit from? should that be okay? because they're sort of randian economic anarchists, and if you can scam people out of their money, you deserve their money than they do? >> it is consistent with randian principles, i think. take a look back at ralph reed and pat robertson. it was all about generating this list, figuring out ways to sell them to others, using them to raise money on "the 700 club," trying to sell products, some of seemingly dubiou...

Appearance of being a movement. you'd have people send in a million different postcards or send in a million different faxes, and it would look like you were a lot of people before that stuff could be very regimentally automated. now that stuff really doesn't fly anymore and you need to contact people in a much more substantive way in order or the those things not to look fake, i feel that this machinery that the republicans built up worked for them to look like a movement for a long time, and now it's just sort of unraveling into just scam. >> well, you may be right. it's almost as if the add...

Maybe it's not always a scam. but this scammy looking arrangement for the period right before the presidential election is coming to light right on the heels of a high profile eyebrow-raising sudden and unexpected resignation at another conservative fundraising juggernaut, freedomworks. the dick armey resignation seemed strange from the start when mother jones first broke the story a week ago. first of all, there was dick armey's weird resignation letter that got leaked demanding that his name and likeness not be used in any freedomworks materials. subsequent to that came the news that mr. arm...