Giuliani campaign overflows with Bush/Cheney alumni.

It's no secret that many of this year's GOP Presidential campaigns are sprinkled with Bush-Cheney 2004 alumni. No campaign is heavier with these experienced folks than the Giuliani campaign. McCain's campaign during the Terry Nelson era was probably close but since that shakeout and his departure Giuliani's campaign has, by far, the most.

Are these folks somehow better than staff from other campaigns? Certainly not, but their is a familiarity and camaraderie there that has value. We all know campaigns are tumultuous and chaotic. Savvy and experience are welcome commodities but sometimes teamwork will be that extra component that will push a group over the top.

In Florida we will see how their team does...

“A lot of us on this campaign have learned a lot of politics and get out the vote strategies from the Bush-Cheney-Mehlman-Rove machine, and we’re replicating all those things,”he said. “They work great, we’ve seen them work great in Florida in the past.”
“I think we have probably the only, or certainly the largest, most capable early voting and absentee chase program in the state,”he said. “I think structurally, in grass roots, kind of ground game politics, I think we’re way ahead of the other campaigns because of our early investment, our early commitment in Florida.”

Read the rest of the NYT Caucus blog story here .