Steering the McCain Campaign, a Lot of Old Bush Hands - washingtonpost.com

BUSH WARMED OVER
The clutch of Bush veterans helping to coach Palin reflects a larger reality about McCain's campaign: Far from being a group of outsiders to the Republican Party power structure, it is run by skilled operatives who learned their crafts in successive Bush campaigns and various jobs across the Bush government. This has caused distress for some Republicans, who had hoped for a new brand of Republicanism. "It's insane to me that at the same time that it's running saying it's not going to be the Bush administration, this campaign looks like the Bush campaign on steroids," said one Republican strategist.
(WASHINGTON POST, suggested by AlterNet)