McAuliffe is nothing but naked pandering.  He is a knave.  A charlatan.  A carnival-barker.  A Reformation era Indulgence seller.  

I hope he gets beaten like a rented mule in the primaries.  I hope that people attend his rallies and jeer at him whilst lobbing exceptionally rotten tomatoes.  

Sorry, not really in the mood for such a hack representing anyone.  Ever.

Cripes, I am so tired of Terry McAuliffe already. Hey, Terry, you love the commonwealth so much? Then run for the legislature. Republicans have a majority in the House of Delegates but are hanging on by the thread of some very vulnerable members in Northern Virginia. Go unseat one of them and give Democrats a legislative majority in time for reapportionment. That's how you prove you're not a carpetbagging glory-hound Clintonite, not pretending to have a Piedmont accent. This guy is going to ruin Virginia for Democrats if he gets the nomination.

Hint to native northerners thinking of seeking public office in the South: Don't worry about adopting a local accent. Stick with "you all" instead of "y'all." Instead, work on smoothing out any distinctive non-southern regional accent you may still have, such as McAuliffe's distinctly New York "A"s. It's less important to sound more like Robert E. Lee than it is to sound less like Bugs Bunny.

A former Macker associate assures me that Terry's erstwhile Southern accent may be odd but is not