And still going strong at age 90, Mrs. Schlafly wants to influence the GOP anew by warning against letting the party's "kingmakers" — the Wall Street elite and political consultant class — turn the 2016 presidential nomination contest into a coronation of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Mincing no words, Mrs. Schlafly makes her case in a 2015 update to her landmark book from a half-century ago titled "A Choice Not an Echo," which, in 1964, became the motto of Barry Goldwater's grass-roots movement.

In her update, Mrs. Schlafly — founder of the Eagle Forum — argues that her party too often picks losers as candidates because of a stranglehold by the political consultant-big business-Wall Street crowd, which she argues makes a bundle from championing moderates over conservatives.

She warns that may be happening again in 2016 in the persona of Jeb Bush.

She notes "closed-door events have been held for Republican megadonors to select who will get the big money that went last time to Mitt Romney" and that the mainstream media already are cheering on Mr. Bush.