Candidate Bagman

As Terry McAuliffe’s lamprey-like campaign for Virginia Governor begins to — pinch me, I’m dreaming — detach from the host as actual politician Creigh Deeds pulls ahead, let the record show what a walking talking dirty $1 bill thinks high office is:

As governor, I don’t want my fair share. I want more than my fair share!

Rawls wept. Ladies and gentlemen, stop this man.

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