[Tall_Texan]

Actually, this is not surprising at all. His brother did the same thing in Texas. He cozied up to certain Democrats, made some converts and then sent them out to flak for him when he ran in 2000. "Democrats for Bush" was a big operation here in Texas and they even followed Al Gore around as "truth squads" when he would campaign in Texas that the state was the most polluted in the country, had the worst civil rights record, etc.

Whether you agree with the political capital squandered or not, Dubya used the Dem-crossover thing to stunning success so it's no surprise at all that Jeb would do the same thing. And Jeb probably has a bigger hurdle to winning Dem votes in Florida than Dubya had winning Dem votes in Texas. The once-dominant Democrat Party in Texas has become so marginalized that they are running a black for U.S. Senator and a Hispanic for Governor because they are now the minority party in the truest sense of the word. They can't even field a full slate of candidates in some counties around Texas.

I'm sure Rove or Hughes tipped Jeb off to this ploy a long time ago.

[summer]

"ploy"? - A candidate for statewide office in FL must win some of the voters from the other party. This is why McLAwyer was hanging around a handful of GOP voters early on -- but, that backfired, since that handful of voters turned off many Dem voters in the Dem primary, and those voters obviously turned out for Reno.