Queen Chrissy was AG for a time, and if that career path worked for her, why not McKenna??
The State has enormous problems, and I will be very interested to hear what he plans to do about them.
AG = Almost Governor
McKenna isn't the most exciting politician (in recent years, he has bravely taken a stand against ID theft, prescription drug abuse, and meth addiction); but he's not a Democrat and he joined the lawsuit against Obamacare. That's good enough for me in this left-wing hellhole called Washington State.
Queen Chrissy had political bosses in King Co. mysteriously "find" whatever number of ballots she needed to outvote the rest of the state. McKenna doesn't have that luxury but his RAT opponent certainly will. Until we can pass reforms like mandatory photo ID I don't see the situation changing. RATs know how to manufacture whatever number of votes they need. King Co. gets whoever they want as Governor, regardless of how the other counties vote.
We have the same problem here in Illinois. Occasionally the GOP may pull an upset in political races outside of Crook County, but the Chicago goons and their combine buddies can run whoever they went (no matter how corrupt and awful), and that candidate will get 135% of the votes in Crook County. If this last election cycle, you could make a case that Dan Rutherford is a decent conservative and was elected State Treasurer (and I believe he's a non-combiner, despite what a handful of freepers claim he is obviously being a thorn in the side of Quinn & Madigan), but 2010 was a big GOP year and the combine focused all their efforts on manufacturing phony Quinn votes, accidentally letting Rutherford slip in under the radar against his invisible RAT opponent. They won't make that mistake if he runs for Governor (and he is almost certain to be the GOP nominee in 2014 now that he is lone statewide official). Witness what Blago and the Chicago machine did to Flannigan in '96 after he pulled up an upset victory against Rostencowski in '94.
The zillions of zombie votes will remain regardless of who the GOP runs.