Oh also, the author didn't live up to his Manchurian candidate headline. Who is the man or woman or evil organization behind the curtain pulling the Bush sockpuppet strings? The theme of the headline is totally absent from the ensuing text.
That's a good point, and I would say that they probably have in mind the Eastern establishment country-club Republicans that opposed Reagan. They don't outright say so, obviously, but I'm extrapolating from the overall premise that Bush is wrecking the Reagan revolution. Of course, I may just be reading my own preconceptions into the text.
The hint is to be found in calling Rove the eminence grise.
Implication is that Bush is the "Manchurian candidate" of mainstream, read multinational big business, rather then as he portrays himself, a Conservative in the Reagan mold.