For all the optimism, church insiders privately acknowledge the decline of what are often already tiny rural churches means something will have to change.
The moderate conservative, frequently tipped by Republican insiders as vice-presidential material, made his ambitions for the top job clear with trips to the early primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina on Saturday, followed by an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.
Insiders say SBS is letting experienced staff go and hiring younger, cheaper ones to replace them.
Ratner had told the crowd of Hollywood insiders that he owed the Australian businessman his career freedom.
Government insiders insisted the reshuffle was tantamount to window-dressing, aimed at placating the bodies that had blamed Varoufakis for the lack of headway.
In a world where the views of your colleagues about your merits matter so much to your chance of promotion, it is not at all surprising a great deal of effort goes into media work no one but political insiders ever see.
It is the 21st-century equivalent of the pre-1832 "rotten boroughs" with their handfuls of voters, a political elite of Westminster insiders saddled with outdated ideas.
Tory insiders acknowledge that they have recently introduced eye-catching measures in areas with high immigrant populations – including adverts telling illegal immigrants to go home – as they try to hold on to white working-class and lower middle-class voters who are moving to Ukip.
Ex-Ukip insiders have also raised concerns that the party favoured wealthy MEP candidates before this month's European elections.
ABC insiders tell us that far from being concerned the story was a beat-up, rural management was full of praise internally because it was the "most hit" story of the week.
His political writings often pushed to the limits of the permissible: he was an eloquent representative of those party insiders who were critical both of the influence of the military-industrial complex and of Russian nationalist currents within the party.
