If Tulsi Gabbard is appointed to the Senate, she will be *by far* the best-looking U.S. Senator ever. She also might be less liberal than any of the other candidates (Gabbard served in the military, and her father was a Republican state senator who switched to the Dems because he was irrelevant as one of only two Republicans in the body).
Whoever is appointed would have to defend the seat in a special election held in November 2014, when the governorship will also be up (but with no presidential election, much less one with “native son” Obama on the ballot). More interesting, in my mind, than which Democrat Abercrombie will appoint (or whether his appointee will survive the Dem primary) is whether former Congressman Charles Djou will run for the Senate or governorship. Former Gov. Linda Lingle might also make a run for one of those two offices.
Darn, too bad he didn’t croak (I almost put “quack”) while Lingle was Governor setting up the ole appoint yourself trick.
Tulsi would be a SILF. Maybe as you say the first SILF in US Senate history. Come on baby, switch back to RINO.
Too bad she’s not in the first CD.
Do you think Djou could win a Senate race? He’d be preferable to Lingle but I’m thinking Jerry Moran should get his kneepads out and camp out on Lingle’s doorstep.
As with MA the Governorship is almost useless to us other than setting up a future run for Congress.
From what I understand, Gabbard is extremely left-wing and jettisoned any of those reasonable positions of her father. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it many times, I believe Hawaii should be granted independence. An island with a one-party Communist-statist government thousands of miles from the mainland should have zero business influencing our politics. Cut a deal for the bases and let them go.