Posted on 06/17/2015 5:35:07 PM PDT by jimbo123
When he has needed a quiet place to work, Mike Murphy has pedaled his electric commuter bike onto the Paramount Studios lot, flashed his ID and rode past cavernous stages such as No. 14, where filmmakers shot “Saturday Night Fever,” “The Hunt for Red October” and “Star Trek.”
Movie and TV stars paid no heed to the balding guy in horn-rimmed glasses and rumpled East Coast khakis as he made his way toward his office, closed the door and went to work trying to elect Jeb Bush president of the United States.
When Bush officially launches his campaign Monday, Murphy will have less time to spend at the Paramount hideaway he rented to write screenplays as he moves across town to run Right to Rise USA, the super PAC supporting his old friend.
For months, Murphy has been advising Bush, who so far has been unable to set himself apart from the crowded Republican field. Now Murphy, 53, will effectively be running a parallel political operation alongside Bush’s official campaign, overseeing TV and digital ads, short videos and other messaging to try to sell America on a third Bush.
What Murphy won’t be able to do is strategize with Bush, because federal election law prohibits super PACs from directly coordinating with campaigns.
That is no small thing for a GOP strategist known over the years as “a candidate whisperer” who has been close to Bush since 1997, when he worked on his campaign for Florida governor.
“I guess the calculation is that he has spent so much time with Bush there is no need for direct communication,” said Dan Schnur, who worked with Murphy on Sen. John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign.
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Should be easy: “I know you hear differently from MSNBC, but he’s really one of you!”
Murphy, Schmidt, Wallace, Steele and the rest of the GOPe adviser vermin should be horsewhipped to the farthest Aleutian island to grow shrunken tomatoes without internet access.
One can dream.
Mike Murphy hasn’t won much, but Jebbie should make him well known again even with a certain final loss to HRC.
Like Gore’s Donna Brazile, after the dust settles he can make a good living going on TV and pretending to be an insider.
(Brazile’s black. Isn’t she? Not that there’s anything wrong with pretending. If she is. Don’t wanna be a raciss! But it’s not racissm if she’s not. Right?)
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