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.”.......
I actually don’t know anything about McKinnon, but the author of this thread refers to him a lot, and I’m trying to get inside this Glenn guy’s head.
We might be looking at the gradual transfer of Ron Paul’s base to Ted.
We need a president who will do a lot more than to throw some gravel on the slippery slope.
I don’t see Jeb doing even that much.
Bush I was elected the first time because of Reagan. He then lost on the weakness of his own performance in office.
Bush II was barely elected because an extreme leftist nutcase siphoned enough votes away from a mainstream leftist nutcase. He won again because of residual anger over 9-11.
Are you saying that Bush III will win just because he will run a better campaign that the last two GOP-E losers?
No, the American people are angry, cynical, and dejected. They don’t want another Bush, and they don’t want another Obama, and they don’t want another Clinton.
They wanted change in 2008, and they got it, and they got burned. Badly.
Romney lost because he acted like he wanted to be a candidate more than he wanted to be president.
They want a change this time more than ever before.
The DemocRats won’t offer anything other than a whiter Obama, and the GOP-E won’t offer anything other than another plastic action figure candidate.
If we let the same power brokers control the process, the result will be the same.
If we mess up one more time, I don’t think we’ll get another chance.