Having wandered in the land of Democratic losses throughout the early 2000’s, Weaver again joined John McCain in 2007, only to be forced out by Cindy McCain. He returned to lead John Huntsman to nowhere in 2012. In 2014, Weaver tried to help the liberal independent, Greg Orman, win Pat Roberts’ Kansas Senate seat against the GOP.

In the Huntsman campaign, he was a source of division who was accused of attacking his own candidates after their campaigns fell apart.

Now he is running Kasich’s campaign and he’s running the same playbook as before. He and Kasich will run to the left, drip with condescension over the rest of the Republican field, play “dad” to the arguing children, and win heaping spoonfuls of praise from the media. Along the way, they will sucker donors out of dollars, lose the race, and get a great TV deal.

Kasich, in the debate last night, had few memorable lines. He relied on a twenty year old congressional record, going so far as to take credit for a balanced budget he had to be forced into working on. Kasich did not believe it possible and wanted nothing to do with it until it was forced on him by conservatives. Now he uses that and an old Fox News show as his street cred with conservatives.