Peter Schiff for Senate
Posted on 08/16/2009 1:49:02 PM PDT by Rodebrecht
Several outlets including NBC are reporting that WWE CEO Linda McMahon is considering running for a Senate seat. If she goes through with it, she'd run as a Republican against Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd in 2010. McMahon has already had some political success this year as she was successfully appointed to the Connecticut State Board Of Education.
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ABCD...Anybody But Chris Dodd.
Wonder if she would be a conservative or a RINO? But yes, anyone would be better than Dodd.
bttt
The WWE has annually set up house shows for our troops in Iraq and they have never missed one since the invasion. The Mcmahons have always supported our soldiers and as independent and entrepeneural as the next conservative. She gets my vote if I lived in Conn.
A wrestling promoter for Senate? She sounds more like a campaign manager than a candidate. But maybe she’s got the media savvy to win.
Well Vince has given campaign contributions to Rick Santorum.
Don't like the sound of that---smacks of beaurocratism esp. BOE which usually is Dem contolled.
Her husband has made a billion dollars by paying large-chested women to run around a wrestling ring wearing nothing much more than perfume and body glitter. Do you really think she's a conservative. Probably just a small-government, lower taxes version of a libertarian.
Which, as you point out, would still be a HUGE improvement over Dodd.
Right you are! She’s also run a very successful WWE enterprise. She should take Vince, Stephanie and her son-in-law Triple H on the campaign trail with her.
By the way, “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair is a Republican and has been getting involved with politics as well.
Exactly. She’s going to be propped up as a pseudo anti-establishment candidate to draw votes away from Peter Schiff, allowing that 100% NARAL-approved creep Simmons to win.
No RINOS
I grew up on WWE/F. Because NC is a blue state, they would still vote for The Nature Boy’ if he ever ran. Way more intelligent than that other ex=rassler’ hack from Minn. , Ventura.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
On the other hand don't ever count a McMahon out, they took on both US justice department and Ted Turner and beat both. One thing the GOP could definitely learn from the McMahons is that fighting instinct, she won't roll over and play dead for the democrats.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- Flair for Senator in North Carolina!
Isn’t North Carolina usually a red State?
Jodi Rell nominated Linda to the BOE.
There were alot of objections and votes against from almost entirely Democrats.
Her and Vince met at church and she was a trustee at Sacred Heart University (Private Catholic school).
After all of what her and Vince have had to deal with the federal government, I have a good feeling she would be an awesome score for the GOP to get someone like her from a Blue state like Connecticut.
She’s a very accomplished women for sure.
She bought her seat on the BOE and lied about her background...She and Vince met at church but he has been banging chicks for years....If people like her then like her but lets not turn her into some masterpiece
I know alot of Gore’s people still blame the WWE for Bush winning...They say the WWE slanted their vote projects toward Bush so maybe she won’t be all bad
Linda McMahon?! Now there’s a perfectly terrible idea. She and Vince have been marketing T & A to kids for years, and if she’s half the egomaniac Vince seems to be (not talking about his WWE character, but the way he acted in public for years before giving himself that persona on his shows) then she shouldn’t be anywhere near public office.
I bet a lot of people thought the same thing about Richard Petty when he ran for NC Secretary of State in 1996, but he went down in flames.
Flair has way too many skeletons in his closet. All the wrestlers, esp. back in the 80s, were doing drugs, running around on their wives, and God only knows what else.
Turner bought Crockett's dead NWA promotion in the late 80s and relegated it to the back of his Sports division where it was never taken that seriously. Had Turner taken it seriously, the WWE/WWF would've been creamed.
As for the Justice Department, if you're referring to the steroid trial(s) in the early 90s, the McMahons managed to lie their way out of that one, only because few of the wrestlers were willing to lose their jobs over being honest. Doesn't exactly say much for Linda's ability to be a principled Senator.
Doesn’t sound like a great idea to me. We don’t need a counterpart to Al Franken.
I would say that description would fit her husband better, since Vince McMahon is the one who likes to make an @$$ out of himself on TV (shown literally here) to get ratings for WWE. His wife has occasionally participated in the WWE storylines but she's actually vetoed some of his more outrageous antics.
I do agree it's probably a bad idea for Linda McMahon to run for the Senate at this time though. She's likely to split the anti-establishment GOP vote, which would help RINO Rob Simmons win in a divided field of opponents.
I hope Sam Caligiuri stays in though, in case Schiff turns out to be too liberal on other social issues like gay marriage and immigration. campaignPete was right, we should have vetted Schiff more to find out his position on other issues, even if his economic credentials are impeccable.
My support will hinge on Schiff’s take on immigration crossed with Caligiuri’s views on size of government.
An aside, I have never watched “professional wrestling”.
It seems like a poor mix of soap operas and roid rage designed to entertain those with borderline IQs.
I hope they don’t have a fan club around here that will hit me with a chair now. ;-D
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The characters are getting more wacky, the plots more bizarre and the outcomes seem predetermined.
Baron Von Rascke in 2012!
I've long contended that the Rats and the Pubbies are like pro wrestlers. They badmouth each other in front of the cameras but they are good drinking buddies after the show.
I’ve always though Steph was smokin hot!
Yes she is and so are many of the WWE Divas.
I remember a few years back when they had a “debate” over the Iraq war during Raw. The heel was anti-Iraq war and the face was pro-Iraq war.
I especially liked that the heel was ivy-league educated “Harvard Chris”
Not true. In it’s heyday Nitro was their top ratings earner. And Nitro did cream the WWf/E for a really long time, nearly drove Titan Sports into bankruptcy.
I remember seeing him on Hannity. I was really disappointed. He seemed to be saying “I’m a Republican, so vote for me”. He flat out refused to say anything uncomplimentary about Dodd and when Hannity tried to say anything, this guy just ignored it. He also didn’t seem to have any specific ideas.
At least you know that Linda McMahon would be on the attack so to speak.
And that wrestler in real-life actually went to Harvard, believe it or not.
Bischoff got the Turner folks to throw enough money at it for a while to hire a bunch of old WWE stars and start Nitro; they only made a profit for those two or three years, and after that went even deeper into the hole. The McMahons competed with Bischoff, who had their old stars using Turner's money, but Turner never gave it any attention himself or they surely would have been run out of business.
Beyond keeping their company afloat during those times and letting WCW die a natural death, none of that is any credit to Linda McMahon.
Dodd is crippled ... Caligiuri has dropped out (HOUSE) ... Foley is going to run for Gov ... and Simmons is receiving a negative reaction from much of the party, both insiders and grassroots.
So a clearing has opened for McMahon and Schiff! I am supporting Uncommitted delegates who are hostile toward Simmons. (Reminder: Simmons had a 100% NARAL voting record. He is a PlannedParenthood operative.)
DUMP DODD!!! DUMP SIMMONS!!!
Pro-lifers will have much to cheer about as both of those losers gets dismantled in the next 12 months.
We Social Conservatives in Connecticut constantly remind ourselves that it is more about who you’re against, than about who you are for.
ANYBODY BUT DODD....ANYBODY!
ANYBODY doesn’t work.
Simmons voted ‘NO’ on the partial-birth ban. One of
HE voted to fund the UNFPA coercive abortion policy (China)
http://capwiz.com/nrlc/vote.xc?votenum=266&chamber=H&congress=1091&voteid=7763976&state=US
The partial-birth abortion bill passed the House by
> vote of
> > 281-142
> > REPUBLICANS voted 218-4
> > The four:
> > Greenwood PA
> > Kolbe, AZ
> > Johnson, CT
> > Simmons, CT
> >
> > Shays, CT voted YES
> >
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2003-530
> >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial-Birth_Abortion_Ban_Act
> > Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act
> >
> > (to prevent 14 year old from being driven by the
> school nurse or
> > gym teacher from Springfield, MA to Hartford to get
> around the
> > Massachusetts parental notification law)
> > passed the HOUSE 270-157
> > REPUBLICANS voted 216-11
> > Simmons was one of the 11.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll144.xml
> > NARAL made the right choice in backing Simmons.
Careful, we NEED Dodd to be the general election nominee. If the Dems dump him in the primary, we won’t win that seat.
Delegates? To a state party convention?
yes, all offices in Conn have conventions (of some sort) to award the party endorsement. Candidates can primary to have a shot at the nomination.
A few years back, primaries were difficult to qualify for. A state judge ruled this to be unconstitutional ... and the state changed the law rather than appeal.
The battles will be: Can Simmons get 50%? without it, there is no endorsement. Can Schiff get 15%? without it, he has to collect signatures to get on the primary ballot. Lotsa signatures.
Maybe I will be a delegate. Ya never know. I’m showing up at the caucus in January where the delegate selection process begins. It’s been years since I’ve been a party regular, so I’m a total outsider.
I hope Linda McMahon doesn’t get 15%.
Linda McMahon is a much more interesting candidate than Freepers probably would give her credit for. Fact is, anyone running against Simmons ... I wish them well.
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