KT BARES HER DAD'S GUN PONDERS HER RUN AGAINST HILLARY

New York Post ^ | Jube 28 2006 | NY Post News Service

[Cincinna]

GOP Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland said yesterday her father threatened her with a gun "on a couple of occasions" when she was a child - and wondered whether recent revelations about her past made it impossible for her to continue to run.

McFarland said that news accounts about her upbringing, and how parental abuse may have contributed to her brother's death from AIDS in 1995, was "another form of abuse" - leaving her to wonder if she should abandon her quest to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

[Cincinna]

KT is a sure loser. She should get out of the way and allow Conservative John Spencer to run unopposed against Hillary. She shouldn't be throwing stones at Spencer in a needless primary.

In an unopposed race, Spencer, who has the GOP and the Conservative Party nominations, can look forward to getting 35-45% of the vote against Hillary in November.

Hillary cannot hope to do as well as Schumer in his last race ( he won 72% of the vote) but If she cannot do better than John Kerry did in 2004, she will look incredible weak.

[mewzilla]

KT is just another reason why NYS GOP is an acronymic oxymoron, and why Upstate needs its own state.

[theDentist]

Seems NY GOP has a pretty good record at undercutting ANYBODY who decides to run against Hillary. You gotta wonder if their upper echelon is donating $$ to Hillary's campaigns.

[jmaroneps37]

This is an absolutely idiotic person. If she is leaving this race now it must be because her puppet masters have decided she has served her purpose.

[P-40]

So suffering abuse in childhood is a reason not to run? There must be more to the story.

[libstripper]

Asked if she had been sexually abused by her father, McFarland said, "I endured things as a child that no children should have to endure."

McFarland described her current relationship with her father as "cordial."

After this article, her relationship with her father is no longer likely to be "cordial."

[Cincinna]

The story is that KT lost the GOP nomination at their convention. John Spencer won it, as well as the endorsement of the NYState Conservative Party.

She has been planning to challenge Spencer in the GOP Primary in September. Dropping out of that race might give Spencer an extra boost of 3-5 %.

No one realistically expects Hillary to lose in November, but a strong Republican/Conservative candidate can pull her numbers down so it is more apparant she is unsuitable to be a candidate for POTUS.