I’m reading an article by Marc McKinnon - three years old - mentioned in this thread
Ted Cruz Has Just About Everything in Common With Obama but Ideology
If you can stomach giving MJ the click-thru:
Meet Ted Cruz, “The Republican Barack Obama”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/ted-cruz-texas-gop-senate
Nov ‘12
Mark McKinnon has served as principal media adviser for hundreds of campaigns for candidates, companies, and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, and Bono, and has helped to engineer five successful presidential primary and general elections. McKinnon is a cofounder of No Labels, a non-profit organization dedicated to bipartisanship, civil discourse, and problem solving in politics. And he is Texas co-chair of the Freedom to Marry Campaign. Mark McKinnon is Media Guy.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/mark-mckinnon.html
His piece on Jeb Bush:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/13/why-hillary-v-jeb-would-be-great-for-america.html
“........Interesting parallels: Gingrich burning down the house in 1996; Tea party now doing the same now. Enter a candidate like Bush, talking about the importance of a federal role in reforming education and immigration.
I chuckle when I hear “movement conservatives” talk about how it’s a different era and how Jeb Bush hasn’t run a campaign since 2002 and doesn’t understand the dynamics of the current Republican Party. You mean, the dynamics where we haven’t won the Presidency in the last two presidential elections? Oh yeah, that dynamic.
Some rabid conservatives call me a “RINO” (Republican in Name Only) or a “squish,” but it’s us “squishes” who made it possible for a Republican to be elected president the last time around. The Republican Party has indeed changed in the last decade. But most of America, the people who create majorities and elect presidents in general elections, have not.”.......