Posted on 08/15/2010 3:27:43 AM PDT by Scanian
Of this season’s crazy, contentious, wide-open Senate races — in Ohio, Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada — none is as wild as what’s going on in Connecticut. In one corner: Democrat Richard Blumenthal, 64, state attorney general since 1991 and favored to win, up by over 40 points in the polls until this spring, when he was caught lying about having served in Vietnam. In the opposing corner: Republican Linda McMahon, 61, until last fall the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), billionaire and political neophyte.
Since spending $22 million of her fortune, McMahon beat out GOP contenders Peter Schiff (campaign slogan: “Schiff Happens” — seriously) and former congressman and decorated Vietnam vet Rob Simmons, who’d been drafted by the party to run. Ultimately, he lost the party’s backing — to McMahon — for the primary. Simmons suspended his cash-poor campaign in May, then re-entered a few weeks ago, showing up at Connecticut commuter hubs and passing out potholders, a sadly literal example that, for him, there was no issue “too hot to handle.”
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This could be as big as California.
McMahon donated to Rahm Emanuel. Connecticut is among the most liberal of states. It’s good that she can spend only her own money.
Oh, okay. So I should vote for the POS Blumenthal?
I could see her and Carly in their own caucus—there are some real similarities.
Linda’s got him in a sleeper hold.
At least Linda is not Rahm. But Bluementhal is a hybrid cross between Ketchep (I was in Vietnam) Boy and Andrew (Bubba says their Mafia) Cuomo.
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