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McDonnell tossed his Conservative bonafides into the trash when he 1)became Romney's front man early on in Virginia, and 2) supported and then signed into law the biggest tax increase in the Commonwealth's history over the spring.

His pet poodle is Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who apparently thought that he was a shoe-in to become McDonnell's successor, but got his applecart upset by Conservatives at the state GOP convention, who chose Cuccinelli as the Republican candidate for governor. Since then, Bolling has been working against Republicans by affiliating himself with Terry McAuliffe and implying that he's going to make an independent run for governor (to split the vote and help his new buddy).