Does that mean McAuliffe is desperate, or does it mean that he is so confident he can get away with anything so he is comfortable hiring the “best” dirty tricks expert, knowing he will win and he will never be held accountable for anything questionable or illegal.
Yes.
Both. We could lose this, but we can try to fix it through covert operations because the RINOs will collude with us in suppressing any consideration of their legitimacy, morality or legality [cf. Kitzinger, Cheney [either one of them], any Bush dead or alive, any McCain [dead or alive]].
And besides every court has held that no one has any standing to complain about anything we do in getting elected.