three months ago the entire campaign plan was to moderate cuccinelli, cuccinelli was going say i ll be like mcdonnell. i ll govern like him. i ll govern center right. now he has to run away from him. that s a double whammy on conduct cornerback. not just that mcdonnell is a distraction is that he loses the opportunity to have a verifier from somebody who was up until basically the last six weeks as this scandal has percolated. somebody who was fairly trusted with the middle of the electorate in virginia with, you know, centrist democrats, independents and senate republicans. boy, mark mckenna this for me at least a big loss for conservatives at least in the short term. we don t know how things are going to play out. but, what was so great about bob mcdonnell and he was rock conservative, i m talking about