Conservative business leaders are now finally talking about bombarding the reality-TV mogul with negative ads, and GOP strategists are reportedly trying to scheme up a way to thwart his coronation at the national convention this summer.
Privately and publicly, they accuse the Tea Party Express of being an "astroturf" outfit, a scheme for Republican strategists and candidates to take advantage of a movement that was chugging along fine without them.
"A bit like a pyramid scheme," says one British party strategist, only half-joking.
He is campaign strategist for "Climate Cops SoS", the npower scheme in which schools compete to produce the best environmental project (www.npower.com/climatecops).
Edwards – a high profile City strategist renowned as a market doomsayer – said the scheme was artificially propping up the market and preventing prices correcting to affordable levels.
The RAC motoring strategist, Adrian Tink, said: "The introduction of any car-scrappage scheme needs to be contingent on balancing the economic benefits with a concern for the environment.
It arose as a compromise between Mr Prescott, who did not want to extend the scheme to housing association tenants, and Labour's election strategist, Alan Milburn, who wanted it to be part of the party's election manifesto.
As Gus Christensen, a strategist for No IDC NY, told me, "Cuomo waited one too many election cycles to push his sham reunification scheme.
Yet given the structure of the narrative, Jack is doomed to play second fiddle to Joey, trying to read his quicksilver mind and stop the deadly schemes this brilliant strategist has set in motion.
We should remember Nixon - the master strategist consumed by his own schemes, the leader who began to understand only in his lonely exile how he had allowed the presidency to overwhelm him, even as he believed he was taming it and turning it into a weapon for his own use.
