Or maybe her son-in-law with this sledgehammer
Posted on 08/15/2010 3:37:15 AM PDT by Zakeet
Of this season’s crazy, contentious, wide-open Senate races — in Ohio, Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada — none is as wild as what’s going on in Connecticut. In one corner: Democrat Richard Blumenthal, 64, state attorney general since 1991 and favored to win, up by over 40 points in the polls until this spring, when he was caught lying about having served in Vietnam. In the opposing corner: Republican Linda McMahon, 61, until last fall the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), billionaire and political neophyte.
Since spending $22 million of her fortune, McMahon beat out GOP contenders Peter Schiff (campaign slogan: “Schiff Happens” — seriously) and former congressman and decorated Vietnam vet Rob Simmons, who’d been drafted by the party to run. Ultimately, he lost the party’s backing — to McMahon — for the primary. Simmons suspended his cash-poor campaign in May, then re-entered a few weeks ago, showing up at Connecticut commuter hubs and passing out potholders, a sadly literal example that, for him, there was no issue “too hot to handle.”
McMahon won Tuesday’s primary with 49% of the vote and has since shrunk Blumenthal’s formerly capacious lead to 7 points. She spent three hours on Wednesday morning, beginning at 6 a.m., sitting in front of a camera, doing interviews via satellite with outlets nationwide. She has suddenly become a political supernova, one to watch, and she has done it by positioning herself as the quintessential outsider, sick of politics as usual, quid-pro-quos, the ever-expanding reach of the federal government.
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What’s the key difference between her and Blumenthal? “He’s clearly liberal big-government,” she says. “I’m clearly conservative small-government. It’s a real clear choice in that regard.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Did I mention running for PUBLIC OFFICE? :)
The difference between “MLB” and “Major League Baseball” is what, exactly?
I’m the wrong person to ask. I don’t follow any sport.
Very interesting chart. Thanks.
I know Schiff’s brother, his name is “Fulla”....
I have one question for the both of them. Where do you stand on the Mosque at ground zero?
That’s it for me....
The point is that it seems that only the rich can get a voice in Government. I understand she is putting up her own cash to do it,but I question her motives. Chalk it up to a big distrust people these days. The most honest of people enter Dc with the purest of motives and in a few years they have become so crooked that they become just another person living off our taxes. But by then, that person becomes so entrenched that they will keep their seat by doing anything it takes.
She has every right to spend her cash, there are no laws against it. The left does it more than the right. But it seems wrong for some reason.
Yes, and with her own money. AFAIK, that money was legally made in the private sector. Would you rather that she get it from government unions? What is your problem with her?
"“Blame it on the voters if a senate seat can be bought.”"
In response you show at length that he is right while saying that he is wrong. This does not make any sense.
Nor does the following:
"I talk to my sixty-five year old sister who is a savvy, intelligent voter. She’s watching the commercials and she believes Rick Scott is what he says he is and, because of the advertising blitz, "
No offense, but you call someone who "believes" what commercials say "a savvy, intelligent voter?"
For advertising budgets to matter, commercials must work. If they do, you can blame the moronic, indifferent, self-sentered voters who are unwilling to spend a few minutes a day on learning the facts, analyzing a situation, and arriving on a well-considered choice among the candidates.
Believe it or not, but your sister has made a considered choice according to her preferences. Some people like the candidate's platform and others like good looks, or the ability to "relate" to the American people. Your sister, like so many others, prefers the loudest candidate. Don't blame the system: that is her Preference.
Thats a good one.That and abortion and gun control.
Sports Viewers Largely Republican
Democrats have two lines of attack:
McMahon has MONEY...she is buying a Senate seat.
McMahon made her MONEY on a disgusting sport which degrades women and tolerates steroid use.
We hear that over and over in Connecticut. Simmons showed what a RINO he was by using it himself (as I mentioned above, his ACU rating was just above 50% in 2006...he helped the GOP lose the House that year)
Blumenthal lying repeatedly about serving in Nam, Blumenthal putting taxpayers on the hook for $18 million after a woman he tried to destroy sued back and won....crickets chirping...
Good grief. You seem to have a serious case of class envy. I thought most of the posters here had immunity.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Mosque @ ground zero-nope
Abortion on demand anytime-nope
Gun control-nope
Inheritance tax-nope
Extend Bush tax cuts-yep
Lower corporate and personal taxes-yep
Reduce the size of federal gov’t-yep
Secure our borders now-yep
Energy independence by increasing drilling here-yep
Full support for Israel-yep
Against Sharia law-yep
Where do you stand?
No class envy here. I am just saying. She and her family worked hard putting out trash and filth that morons consume in boxcar lots. She and her family are the new PT Barnums. They took a old format, re-worked it and made a mint. Its the American way.
If you are only interested in the “R” after someones name, you are no better than union goons and ACORN goofs that vote for thieves with a “D” at then end of thier names.
Me, I would rather vote for people that have at least a Moral Compass.
Her TV ads are great. She speaks directly to the viewers about her positions on issues. So far I have been in agreement with every one of them.
Amen! Dick Rictuspuss has a binary view of the world: Either tax it or ban it. I know the term gets thrown around almost to the point of being meaningless, but nevertheless Blumenthal is a certifiable nazi. Rule # 1: Never, ever give Barney Fife power or Eric Cartmann authoritah.
People lie. They pretend they are one thing and when they get into office; they are another thing entirely.
And too many people want to always vote for the one that allegedly can win without ever considering the consequences.
Oh, and they all get the money from the private sector be it our tax money or their backers.
Our Founding Fathers were, for the most part, the wealthy also.
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