So what do you think Adelson hoping for by purchasing Newtie

[Skidmore]

in this election? Bill Press just commented that the amount of money that Adelson has sunk into ads for Newtie is more than the campaign has.

[notadmblnd]

1. A cabinet position?

[rhett o rick]

2. When you have that kind of money what good is it if you dont throw it around? nm

[JI7]

3. i don't know, but i saw him on some news thing he seems to really like Newt

and think he would be a great Pres.

why do so many who end up so wealthy always come off so stupid ?

[Old and In the Way]

4. He damn well expects an ROI from his stake.

I imagine he'll want total control of reforming (read: deregulating) the gambling industry. Possibly a veto on any DOJ investigations on the subject as well.

[tularetom]

5. Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran

As I understand it Adelson is a strong supporter of the Likud party and an advocate of a strong stance on Iran.

He probably thinks Newt is the only candidate nutty enough to actually start a war with Iran.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. + 1

Yep. In a nutshell.

[gopiscrap]

6. Being made ambassador to Isreal

and outlawing immigration from Arab countries and for dessert bombing Iran.

[Turbineguy]

7. His

good name?

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Getting the feds off his ass

Adelson has an active investigation of his ass.

[leveymg]

9. Meyer Lansky advised the Mob to support the GOP beginning in 1944.

The story is, the little accountant told the gumbas that the Republicans had more powerful Judges, so they put cash in their pockets. and they expanded on the Coast and into the desert. What we got for their money was the Richard Nixon West Coast branch of the GOP.

Lansky once said about the Mob, "We're bigger than US Steel." He was right.

[Prometheus Bound]

11. A declaration of unending war on Muslims

In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.

“This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America,” a narrator intones. “A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America. ... This is the war you don’t know about.”

This is the feature-length film titled “The Third Jihad,” paid for by a nonprofit group, which was shown to more than a thousand officers as part of training in the New York Police Department.

.....The 72-minute film was financed by the Clarion Fund, a nonprofit group whose board includes a former Central Intelligence Agency official and a deputy defense secretary for President Ronald Reagan. Its previous documentary attacking Muslims’ “war on the West” attracted support from the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a major supporter of Israel who has helped reshape the Republican presidential primary by pouring millions of dollars into a so-called super PAC that backs Newt Gingrich.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/nyregion/in-police-training-a-dark-film-on-us-muslims.html?_r=4