In a royal hubris shot at Huckabee and the GOP base, JEB! to pick an openly gay man as communications / "dirty tricks" director for possible 2016 presidential run

Bush-Portman 2016

The  Crown Price has vowed to try and buy the White House on his own terms, as his "own man," and expects the Republican Party apparently to acquiesce to this pretense out of homage to his family's legacy and sense of entitlement.

Towelroad and Politico report that JEB! (head of the putative JEB!-Portman 2016 GOP ticket) will pick Tim Miller, who currently serves as the executive director of the America Rising PAC targeting Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, as his top communications aide for the expected JEB! 2016 presidential run. The National Journal also adds that the 33-year old is openly gay and previously worked on John McCain's 2008 presidential bid, and John Huntsman's 2012 campaign. He has also served as a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.

This follows (then closeted) Ken Mehlman's tenure as George W. Bush's national campaign director in 2004, a campaign premised on a national anti-gay marriage platform.  Mehlman later served as GOP national chairman of a party recently rocked by the Foley and Schrock gay sex scandals, and the Jeff Gannon male prostitute White House scandal, a period which had witnessed the terms "gay" and "velvet" mafia jocularly applied to the Bush White House coterie, and GOP become a snarky acronym for "Gay Ole Party" among the left. Mehlman later came out as gay in 2010, after serving his term as chairman, and then endorsed gay marriage.

Miller could be expected to mastermind JEB!'s character assassination and dirty tricks operations (under Rove's direction most likely) as what the left would likely label a "self loathing biach-slapper." The National Journal characterizes him as "an opposition research bulldog," and according to the article:

"Miller has quickly become a formidable peddler of oppo research, both through his group and on his Twitter feed. Last June, America Rising published a 112-page e-book essentially outlining the conservative playbook against Hillary Clinton in 2016. America Rising's website is rife with clicky headlines and slick in-house graphics detailing Clinton's peccadilloes, most recently her Clinton Foundation flap. They even sell anti-Clinton merchandise, like this T-shirt that reads, "I wish I was as broke as the Clintons".

Compare that with other potential Republican candidates' attempted attacks on Clinton.                     Sen. Rand Paul's political operation created a fake Pinterest account for Clinton. Pinterest quickly removed the account, saying it violated the company's terms of use. In 2016,               Republicans are going to have to do better to troll Clinton, the presumed Democratic               frontrunner, and Miller has shown he knows just how to do that."