New Republicans: Same old whore just a new dress

This new ad will begin running on Fox but who are the are the new Republicans? New Republican.org has a YouTube account with the above and one other video which I will comment on later but candor is not its long suit. A WHOIS look up finds that its domain registration is private and an Open Secrets search reveals nothing. It claims to be a PAC but a Federal Election Commission search is futile. Excuse my skepticism but I am reluctant to join or contribute to a group that does not wish to tell me who runs it.
The second video tells us more.



This video was uploaded November 18 of last year so this project has been in the works for some months now. The speaker on Meet the Press is Alex Castellanos and one must assume that this entire segment was set up to allow Castellanos to make the introduction. Yes, NBC and David Gregory are in on the plot. A look at Castellanos' Wikipedia entry yields;

Alejandro "Alex" Castellanos (born 1954) is a Cuban American political consultant. He has worked on electoral campaigns for Republican candidates including Bob Dole, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. In 2008, Castellanos, a partner at National Media Inc., co-founded Purple Strategies, a bipartisan communications firm. Castellanos is also a regular guest commentator on Meet the Press and a contributor for CNN.

It also reveals Castellanos signed a court amicus brief in support of gay marriage and while that may qualify him as a CEO of Firefox the omission of this fact from an organization that is in pollster Doug Schoen's words "is a explicit push back against the Tea Party brand of Republicanism that is not inclusive, that has, frankly, divided the Republican Party and it may well be a harbinger of something else, the beginning of Jeb Bush's presidential campaign."
So the New Republicans are a stealth Jeb Bush campaign? Probably or at least someone like him. Someone who can unite Republicans around the ideals of Common Core, gay marriage, and the the concept that illegal immigration is "an act of love". No thank you. It should come as no surprise that one of Purple Strategies' clients is the Chamber of Commerce. New Republican. org is not new. It's the same old whore in a new dress.