Too good to check: No-name lefty candidate may sneak in as Dems’ Indiana Senate nominee. HOP TO IT!

Hotair ^ | 02/16/10 | Allahpundit

[American Dream 246]

Remember that last-minute filing deadline that Ed talked about this morning, how Indiana Democrats would be forced to go through a caucus process because no one qualified for the ballot in time? Well, “no one” is on the verge of becoming someone.

Red State’s got the right idea. She claims she needs 500 signatures by tomorrow, especially from the 8th District, although she’d feel safer with 1,000. If you’re a conservative Hoosier and you get a knock on the door, you know what to do.

It would be something close to a nightmare scenario for Democrats: were [Tamyra] D’Ippolito to qualify for the ballot, she would be the likely nominee and the party would be left to face the GOP with a political neophyte who said she is running in part to take on a party establishment she said practices “sexism with a big S.” It’s precisely what Bayh had hoped to avoid.

By disclosing his retirement one day before the filing deadline, the idea was that no Democrat would qualify for the primary ballot and the party’s state central committee could tap their favored candidate… “This would be a complete and unmitigated disaster,” said a leading Democrat in the state. “We’d be up sh—’s creek.”…

She said she was committed to the race in part because she was sick of the male-dominated Democratic Party in the state.

“It’s very much an old boys club in Indiana and I’m out to break it,” she said.

She tells TPM that the state party is working against her, which is undoubtedly true and will be even truer now. But don’t lose hope. Remember, Harry Reid initially vowed to block Roland Burris’s appointment by Blagojevich until the race card was dutifully played by Burris’s supporters, leading to the inevitable reversal in the name of diversity.

Sounds like D’Ippolito’s already got her own identity-politics ducks in a row, so if anything underhanded is tried to disqualify her, this is going to turn into one glorious clusterfark.

Cross them fingers.

Here’s her campaign Facebook page. She says she’ll be collecting signatures tonight at someplace called Ragazzi’s.

Hop to it, Hot Air Indianans!

[Rick_Michael]

I’m wondering what the house will look like...anyone have a reasonable view on what the house numbers will look like?

[jakerobins]

Wonder if Jim Davis is busy?? He could get some good material dealing with some of the Democrats in Washington.... heck Barney Frank is already 90% a cartoon...LOL

[Paleo Conservative]

Almost not guilty. Closer to a nolo contendre to guilty.

But the photo was heavily photoshopped.

[Go Gordon]

We may have a real chance for a 51-49 senate.

And with the way Obama is going, 2012 might give the pubbies 60 seats.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I’m like a city boy in the woods here. What’s going on?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Far left has taken over Democratic Party — Sen. Bayh says
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/scott-brown-martha-coakley-massachusetts-senate.html

[CholeraJoe]

I’m 1.6 miles from the Evansville airport. You can’t get much more 8th District than that!

[ex-Texan]

Must see this before YouTube pulls the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5O9Imbpe6Q&feature=youtube_gdata

[Never on my watch]

..."From David Freddoso: Hoosiers who would like to help d’Ippolito can print out this petition document, have the entire family sign it, ..."

Kids, toddlers, infants, cats an dogs - everyone!

[Yossarian]

That video “jokes” about how slow Joe might become president, and how they think it’s too bad Lieberman’s family escaped the Holocaust.

Funny, it is not. I hope YouTube does pull it, because it does the conservative cause no good.

[homegroan]

We need a flow chart to keep track it all....I need a visual aid..seriously...like a US map w/a dead fly in each state that’s available or up for grabs.

Me-need-pictures.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Oh, I wish I were in that district. I would sign for her in a heartbeat. Would love to see the debate between her and anyone!!! She sounds like a typical Dem loon.

[Uncle Chip]

She’d better hurry up. She only has “Four days until tomorrow.”

That's hilarious--

[LayoutGuru2]

“Two days before the day after tomorrow.”

[Maelstorm]

I don’t think it matters I signed for RalphNader.

[Miss Didi]

Woke up to her chatting with the Friends this morning...nutty indeed.

[Theophilus]

The girl from D’Ippolito?

Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from D’Ippolito goes walking, And when she passes each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!"
When she walks she's like a samba that, Swings so cool and sways so gentle, That when she passes each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!"
Oh, but I watch her so sadly, How can I tell her I love her? Yes, I would give my vote gladly
But each day when she walks to the sea, She looks straight ahead not at me
Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from D’Ippolito goes walking, And when she passes
I smile, but she doesn't see, She just doesn't see, No she doesn't see

[John O]

"Tea Baggers"

She wants the homosexual/pervert vote. She needs it, it's the bedrock core of the Democrat party.

She's from Bloomington. It's the sodom of the midwest. DO NOT let your children go to IU unless they are very strong Christians. The pro-sodomite atmosphere there is astounding.

[luvie]

Just in on her Facebook:

“Tamyra For Senate: I know the political machine wants to SELECT a candidate rather than to ELECT a candidate. But didn’t we do that before with George Bush? That did not work out so well.”

Ok, Indiana...time to get serious!

[headstamp 2]

She looks like something out of an old Twilight Zone episode in that picture.