John Weaver now advises Huntsman to to run for President on the GOP ticket in 2008 by joining the Obama administration - and personally attacks conservatives.
I guess John Weaver is Byron York's kind of Republican... the losing kind! My guess is it makes Byron's liberal buddies at his beltway cocktail parties so much more friendly than when Republicans win.
THE GOP NEEDS TO DUMP WEAVER...NO CANDIDATE SHOULD HIRE OR TAKE ADVISE FROM HIM AGAIN!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8624.html
This is not the first time Weaver finds himself in the middle of an uproar. A brooding, volatile, longtime top strategist who serves as a favorite inside source for political reporters, Weaver had a high-profile falling-out with Karl Rove in the late 1980s and a well-publicized reunion with him a decade and a half later. In 2002, Weaver left the Republican Party, worked for Democratic candidates, and then returned to McCain’s side shortly afterward.
Even after quitting the McCain campaign last summer in a staff shake-up, Weaver still maintains close ties to remaining staffers, he told Politico on Thursday, though his role remains minor.
Weaver vigorously maintains that he is loyal to McCain. “Not one day has gone by that I have not talked to campaign leadership, … that I haven’t tried to help him become president,” he said.
A former executive director of the Texas Republican Party, Weaver first gained national prominence when he served as political director to McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign. When McCain suffered demoralizing losses in that race, which was marked by ugly intraparty conflicts in places like South Carolina, Weaver became disillusioned with the Republican Party.
In early 2002, Weaver left the GOP and registered as a Democrat in Manhattan. By May, he was consulting for the House Democrats’ campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, plotting strategies to defeat Republicans. The DCCC’s then-executive director was Howard Wolfson, now chief spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Soon after, though, Weaver was back with McCain, orchestrating a public reconciliation with President Bush after the acrimony of the 2000 campaign. Putting together that meeting required that he make peace with his old nemesis Rove. Yet during the same campaign, Weaver was reported to be informally advising John F. Kerry and discussing with him the prospect of a Kerry-McCain ticket.