Professional politics

What does this from David Freddoso at The Corner say about the state of Republican Party communications?

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: New Directors for Landrieu’s Office and Committee

…Stephanie Allen has been promoted from press secretary to communications director for [Sen. Mary] Landrieu [D, La.]…Aaron Saunders has been hired as press secretary, succeeding Allen. Saunders was communications director to then-Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.

So it’s that easy to move from being a communications director for a Republican Senator to press secretary for a Democrat?  I’m not sure that stalwarts of either party will find that exactly comforting.  Mark Steyn certainly hit the nail on the head with this follow-up:

David, I’m not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but the notion that the “communications directors” for Republican Senators are all secret Democrats would explain a lot about the last few years.

It’s not that they’re “secret Democrats” as much as it is that they’re secret Bureaucrats.  While some will shrug this off as nothing more than professionals adapting to a changing marketplace, I suspect that professionalism in this case means nothing good for representative democracy.