Terry McAuliffe traveling to support Hillary: And the big deal is?

The Washington Post has a story about Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his travel schedule related to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

The story quotes a Virginia Republican operative making hay about McAulliffe’s work on behalf of Clinton, the former Secretary of State, U.S. senator and First Lady.

McAuliffe, of course, has a well-chronicled history with Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, the former president, having served as their uber fundraiser.

So the big deal is?

“Anyone who thinks that Terry McAuliffe isn’t going to do whatever he has to do to ensure his BFF is elected president is living on another planet,” the aforementioned GOP operative, Chris LaCivita, said.

LaCivita, the story notes, is a paid advisor for the presidential campaign of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, whose Republican candidacy is thisclose to going down in flames.

The Post story turns on a comment that McAuliffe made in advance of his inauguration last year in which he told a Richmond TV station that his focus as governor would be on governing.

His predecessor, Bob McDonnell, now on his way to prison after being convicted of influence peddling, spent a good bit of his time in 2012 as a chief surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, when he wasn’t serving as chair of the Republican Governors Association.

(And, according to a jury of his peers, selling the Office of the Governor of Virginia to the highest bidder.)

Another predecessor, Tim Kaine, served as chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2009.

This McDonnell-shilling-for-Clinton nonsense is some level of adieu about nothing, basically.

– Column by Chris Graham