Posted on 02/15/2010 10:53:20 PM PST by 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!
Wow! That’s quite the rumor! At the link, there are folks speculating about who might run for Miss Mikulski’s seat. Among them, former Gov. Ehrlich.
It would be interesting to see Mr. Ehrlich get into the US Senate. He and the newly-elected Sen. Brown would form the nucleus of a new moderate, pro-abort wing of the Republican Party. Nonetheless, as a Marylander, I’d prefer the pig Ehrlich to the vermin Mikulski.
sitetest
The author is a bit clueless, we are Hoosiers, not Indianans!
Her Facebook picture is pretty. That one, not so much.
Just like the MSM and Libs picked our candidates for us in 2006 and 2008 this time we get to pick.
Let's help her out.
Upon observing the DUmp:
No mention of D’Ippolito’s campaign (which sounds like it would be right up their alley!), and...
Some support for John Mellencamp for the seat.
Folks, I’m conflicted. Good thing I live in Illinois.
(And, they haven’t yet caught on to our little FReep for “D’Ippy”)
After she gets on the ballot in Indiana, be sure to get her booked on Glenn Beck and ask her about the 9-11 truthers...
She is quoting Chomsky? We need to sign her petition cause the folks of IN need that gal. LOL! Another moonbat like the murdering professor from Alabammie aka a MA lib transplant who killed her brother.
Moonbat credentials: impeccable
At the DUmp? It will play well...they were in the bucket for Edwards since 2004.
TH54
Due: Noon 2/16/2010 - Hurry! ;-)
“But the photo was heavily photoshopped.”
Based on a picture someone posted, it was an animation of her on Facebook. ;-)
She seems to be the right gal to run for the Dems. LOL!
I don’t know what it’s like in Inddiana, but in Arizona you must be registered in the State you are signing the petition and if the candidacy is challenged, they check every single signature.
you mean “tall and fat, and dumb and fugly” kinda like my boyfriend’s ex wife!!
That is friggin hilarious.
or “short and fat, and dumb and fugly”
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