For months, Republican Party insiders have speculated who Sheldon Adelson, the pro-Israel billionaire, will back in the GOP presidential primary.<br />Insiders say that money forced eventual candidate Mitt Romney to spend dollars fending off Gingrich - expenditures that helped cripple Romney's efforts against incumbent Barack Obama in the general election.<br />A number of factors - the growth of social media, surging grassroots resentment of the establishment and Trump's ability to command free media attention for every outrageous utterance - have conspired to render fundraising far less useful in the primaries.<br />The Adelsons may be able to spend against Trump, while avoiding favoring another candidate, by giving to a SuperPAC, political action committees that allow unlimited spending against a candidate.<br />One contender could be Club for Growth Action, the SuperPAC affiliated with the famed anti-tax group, which already has targeted Trump for his calls to tax the super-rich.
