GOP strategist Boyd Marcus’s move to McAuliffe campaign seen as sign of party rift

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GOP strategist Boyd Marcus’s move to McAuliffe campaign seen as sign of party rift

by Laura Vozzella at the Washington Post


http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/gop-strategist-boyd-marcus-joins-mcauliffe-campaign/2013/09/08/156158b0-16f8-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop

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Now 61 and one of Virginia’s best-known GOP strategists, Marcus gave his own shock to political observers last month by endorsing and going to work for Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman running for governor.

The defection of the veteran GOP strategist — adviser to former governors James S. Gilmore III and George Allen, among many others over the past 30 years — left Republicans stunned and, in some cases, enraged.

Democrats and even some Republicans see Marcus’s move as emblematic of a deep rift within the party: Marcus had been aligned with pragmatic establishment figures and repelled by the resolute tea party style embraced by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, the Republican nominee.

“I’ve never known him to work for a Democrat, but it’s a different dynamic out there this year,” said state Sen. Emmett W. Hanger (R-Augusta), a social conservative and fiscal moderate who supports Cuccinelli but also pines for a more compromising GOP. “We’re in a different time for the Republican Party.”



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1. Excellent, I love seeing the GOP implode!!!

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2. Anyone else think...

This says as much about McAuliffe as it does about the state of the GOP in Virginia? (Which admittedly is a mess)