McCain Strategist Becomes A Democrat

John Weaver, "the well-known strategist" for Sen. John McCain's 2000 run against George W. Bush, has become a Democrat and "2004 presidential aspirants have been in touch," according to the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire. Weaver says the GOP now "is the party of 'the corporate skybox elite,' recast in the century-old image of 'Mark Hanna and his money-men.' That recalls the GOP king-maker behind President McKinley, a historical favorite of Bush strategist -- and Weaver rival -- Karl Rove." Ohio State University and Vassar College have hisotrical backgrounders on the Hanna and McKinley partnership.