Posted on 09/10/2011 11:02:48 PM PDT by neverdem
In the last election cycle, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon spent $50 million of her own fortune in an unsuccessful quest to fill Connecticut's vacant U.S. Senate seat, losing badly to her Democratic opponent, Richard Blumenthal. With the lessons of being a novice candidate behind her, McMahon is back for Round 2, poised to enter the 2012 race to succeed retiring four-term Sen. Joe Lieberman.
A source close to McMahon’s future campaign confirmed to RealClearPolitics that the Republican hopeful will make her candidacy official in the next two weeks. (News of her plans was first reported by The New York Times.)
Last year’s battle between McMahon and Blumenthal attracted national attention as Republicans tried to capture a seat long held by Democrat Christopher Dodd, who was retiring; the GOP was fueled by hopes of reversing the balance of power in the Senate. In the primary, McMahon rose quickly from a political unknown to a viable candidate, defeating former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons and businessman Peter Schiff. To compete with McMahon’s self-funding and rise in the polls, national Democrats were forced to direct more resources to a state that is typically safe for the party and which President Obama won in 2008 with 60 percent of the vote.
McMahon positioned herself as a newcomer and businesswoman who would shake things up in Washington, and she painted Blumenthal, then the state’s attorney general, as a career politician -- a narrative that played well with the angry electorate in other congressional races. But despite this and the size of her campaign coffers, McMahon wasn’t able to secure a victory for Republicans in an election that was historically successful for the GOP.
Since her loss, McMahon has been busy gauging the political climate and building support for another try at the Senate...
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My all time despised back yarder Rino was Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky. Thankfully she didn’t last long.
I just found out she is Chelsea Clinton’s mother in law. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
In 2010, Linda McMahon had every advantage. She had mountains of money, an open seat race with a flawed opponent, and the best Republican year since 1994. She didn’t even come close to winning. Is there any reason she would do better now?
None at all, I hate both these choices.
CT needs and option C.
I was wrong. In 1992, Mezvinsky took over PA-13, a seat which had been GOP since 1916. She was a Rat who ran as a conservative, but when she voted for Clinton’s budget in 1993, her true colors were shown and she was booted out in 1994.
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