Posted on 10/08/2010 2:38:00 AM PDT by Scanian
The Post today endorses Republican Linda McMahon for the US Senate in Connecticut.
If she wins -- and polls suggest she is closing in fast on her Democratic opponent -- this would be a major pick-up for the GOP, which hasn't won a Senate race in the Nutmeg State since 1982.
By all rights, McMahon would seem to be the ideal political neophyte seeking office: Well-spoken, intelligent and CEO of one of the state's largest and most successful businesses, which has brought 600 jobs to Connecticut.
The problem is that her business is professional wrestling -- immensely popular, to be sure, but an enterprise that strikes many as in dubious taste, at best.
Still, it's not as if McMahon plans on hiring Hulk Hogan as her top aide.
She is running on a ticket of fiscal conservatism, combined with socially moderate positions. While not a Tea Party candidate per se, she clearly has tapped into the voter anger and frustration that has fueled the movement.
Her opponent, Richard Blumenthal, is a career politician and conventional liberal Democrat who's spent 20-plus years as state attorney general.
He's also a proven liar -- having been caught repeatedly claiming to have served in Vietnam, when the closest he ever got to the war is New Haven.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You and many others surely feel that way but it bugs me that the GOP is counting on a “businesswoman” whose stock-in-trade consisted of “matches” with pre-arranged outcomes, crude sexuality, and the widespread abuse of PED’s.
Ever see what became of Superstar Billy Graham? Not a pretty picture. Of course, Blumenthal is a danger to the whole country, not just his “stable.”
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