[neverdem]

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
K. T. McFarland at home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Those Republican critics are now coalescing around a late entry: Kathleen Troia McFarland, 54, a protégée of Henry A. Kissinger who has not been in public service since working as a Pentagon spokeswoman under President Ronald Reagan. Yet Ms. McFarland, known as K. T., is pretty green: She has been a stay-at-home mother since 1985, and was drawn to the Senate race only because she already believed she was going to lose her bid for a Congressional seat on...

Sounds like a winner to me.

[John Lenin]

. But with a caustic manner and a history of marital infidelity, Mr. Spencer may foil the party's drive for female voters and match up badly against Mrs. Clinton,

Nonsense, the witch does not want to bring up marital infidelity with Blozo in the background.

[martin_fierro]

But with a caustic manner and a history of marital infidelity, Mr. Spencer may foil the party's drive for female voters and match up badly against Mrs. Clinton

Are they kidding?

With those traits, he is Mrs. Clinton!

[Will_Zurmacht]

I gotta think that two words would revolutionize this race...
Ru-Dy

Imagine if Rudy would come to the aid of his party and run against Hillary!
I suspect he would trounce her.

But he doesn't want to be a senator...he really wants to be Prez.

It seems to me that if he did take out Hillary!, he would actually increase his chances in 2008. (I'm no Rudy guy, just thinking this outloud)

He would be a sitting senator, and the Hero of NYC/9-11.
He would also earn some street cred from the party faithful for slaying a dragon on their behalf.
Even some of the "social conservatives" might be inclined to give him reserved support for his services...maybe.

then again, maybe the world is a better with Hillary the dingbat representing the Democrats on tv every night...

[Bon mots]

I'm doing my part to trash Hillaroo...

[zbigreddogz]

He'll lose horribly, but he'll do better then Pirro would have, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him get more votes then her.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Spencer for Senate ! Accept no liberal substitutes.

[GianniV]

I love how this woman has a chance in the eyes of the NY Times because she believes in "abortion rights" and will attract women. This, of course, implied the majority of women are for "abortion rights."

I do not believe that to be the case. How can you vote for anyone who supports vacuuming a babies' brains out?

[jmaroneps37]

Ok lets take off the gloves and talk some hard truths here.
The reason why John Spencer is having a hard time nailing down the New York State GOP nomination is because George E. Pataki doesn't want him to get it.
Pataki has this stupid notion that HE GEORGE E. PATAKI the failed rino governor of a state that is about to become mexifornia East, can be ( drum roll and please sit down ) President of the United States! Yes the head of New York's rino heard actually really no B.S. thinks he can win a series of GOP primaries and get the top spot, or at least enough to get some dope to name him VP.
To do this Pataki needs money. There is just so much GOP money in New York, and no more. Consequently, if Pataki can engineer a senate race in which the Republicans run a dead body like this fraud McFarland, no one will contribute to her and they will give their money to Pataki. If he had his way and thought he could get away with it, Pataki would see to it the Hillary Clinton ran unopposed. Since he can't do that he is doing the only thing he can and that is hold back John Spencer. He is afraid of the name Clinton. The rest of the feckless NYS GOP is afraid of the name Clinton.
John Spencer will give her the fight of her life. The "experts" are completely overlooking this race. They have no understanding of John Spencer. Yes, I am a strong supporter of John's, but the fact is that when you have a Clinton running now and maybe later on one side and a warrior that is not afraid of Clinton or her name, how can this not be the most exciting race in the country?
John will have the money to fight this fight. He has the same fund raiser that generated 40 million dollars for Rick Lazio in just 5 1/2 months. That was when people only THOUGHT they knew how dangerous a Hillary Clinton presidency would be. She only got 55%. If you think that was big, you are not watching carefully enough.
The left thinks they now have the right candidate to run against. They think they can run two campaigns with opposite aims at the same time. I don't. I don't think it took more that a sharp college kid to get Hillary Clinton elected in a state like New York in 2000, with NO real press conferences. Howie Wolfson is no political genius. Neither is she. Will John win? We'll see.
He will get at least the same 46% that John Fasso did. Fasso was the last unflinching Republican to run statewide.
Fasso had about 6.00 in his treasury and ran against a well funded well known Democrat. How can this not be the top race this year?