Posted on 11/08/2010 8:26:59 PM PST by Qbert
He also never kicked a man in the groin for entertainment...
Well, hell, that’s my guy !!!
Never could understand why Coulter wouldn’t endorse Schiff.
And Linda McMahon, wasn't even a tea party candidate, this made nooooo sense.
You are not a better candidate if you can’t win the primary.
“You are not a better candidate if you can’t win the primary.”
Don’t tell that to Karl Rove...
Yeah it did. She could self finance. As a rule The big boys at the GOP love candidates that can sink millions of their own into a race. The only exception I can think of right now just became Govenor of Florida. In his case he had a contagion though. The Tea Party backed him. They’d have loved him if not for that.
I don’t mind Linda’s past. Elites take exception to it but I see no shame in the wrestling business. I just find it amazing the GOP because of their unquenchable thrist for filthy rich self financing candidates would overlook they were running a white women connected to a blue collar sport/entertainment in a northeast state. If the Tea Parties had rallied to her banner she’s have been splashed all over SNL and denounced by the establishment as an embarrassment. yet silence from the same establishment that wants to focus on O’Donnell. No word at all about their brilliant choices.
All candidates who have a lot of baggage from their previous life are going to get drawn off message and have to spend way more time playing defense and talking about that crap than they would like. Some manage to win despite this handicap but we’ve seen others who could not.
Primaries are for the little people, you know, the voters. Honestly, how could anyone have won in CT? They voted for a guy who out and out lied about serving in Vietnam and was an absolute dud in every debate. Bottom line, if Blumenthal had died in the middle of the campaign, he still would have won.
CT is populated with old money lib elitists, entertainment types who work in NYC and Wall Street bailout babys.
The demographics of the state make it hard for a Repub to win no matter what the circumstances.
Says it all, right there.
If Simmons or Schiff were better candidates, one would've won the primary.
If Castle were a better candidate, he'd have won the primary. Same goes for Norton, Lowden, Tarkanian, et al
You can even go one step further: If Romney or Huckabee were better candidates, they'd have beaten McCain in the primary. And, since they couldn't defeat the weakest candidate the GOP has offered since Alf Landon, they've got no business mucking up the field in 2012.
“The demographics of the state make it hard for a Repub to win no matter what the circumstances.”
Yep- although Malloy only won the governor’s race by 6,000 votes.
Schiff would have been one of the best in the Senate. He’s the kind of person we need in any office right now.
The GOP should stay away from celebutainment candidates... like Donald Trump
Yes, one constant with all the loser Senate candidates - COD, McMahon, Fiorina - they never held elective office... and Ken Buck held only a minor office.
The winners - Toomey, Rubio, Kirk, Portman,etc. - all held office before.
Given that, we were more likely to win with Simmons in CT, Mike Castle in DE, and ... Chuck Devore in CA. (!)
Interesting point- definitely is a strong correlation there. (Although Angle held office before and lost).
Anyone can toss their hat into the ring in 2012 and probably will. Reagan lost to Ford in 1976. He took another shot in 1980.
Rand Paul is an exception.
They are both useless for statewide office in Connecticut.
Simmons = NARAL
Schiff = comedy hour
“in a hierarchy, everyone tends to rise to their level of incompetence”.
She simply wasn't a good candidate, and well before she ever even hinted at running for office, I honestly didn't think she was that smart.
She was a bad choice, I knew it then, but your right, if she had been a tea party person, she would have gotten the same bad wrap as O'Donnell.
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