Kathleen Matthews (Mrs. Hardball) LOSES! Jamie Raskin wins!

[TheDormouse]

Democratic Primary for Maryland's 8th Congressional District

CANDIDATES VOTE PCT.

Jamie Raskin 38,902 33.7%

David Trone 31,529 27.3%

Kathleen Matthews 27,401 23.8%

115,354 votes, 100% of precincts reporting
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/maryland


Buh-Bye ........



The Empire does NOT always win!!



Matthews and Trone were Establishment favorites in what turned out to be the most expensive congressional primary election in US history--over $15 million spent.

Jamie Raskin, a state senator and constitutional law professor, was preferred by the voters, despite being vastly outspent by his opponents.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. A dem and an atheist and he beat Matthews?

I have a HUGE smile on my face right now

[merrily]

2. At least karma works sometimes!

Maybe the ethics deficient blowhard will retire now?

[SCantiGOP]

6. What's the karma

for one of the most mean-spirited posts I've ever seen? Hands clapping and everything.
OP might want to watch out for karma.

[merrily]

15. Why are you posting to me about the OP? I'm not the OP.

[TheDormouse]

18. OP doesn't believe in magic

[thereismore]

3. YES!!!!!! Bye bye corporate democrats. nt

[KamaAina]

4. Constitutional law professor?

Oh, come on. Con law professors never work out as elected officials, silly.

[KamaAina]

5. Reminds me of how LePew got over in Maine. Twice.

Here, the two establishment candidates split the vote, allowing the good guy to prevail.

[840high]

7. Makes me very happy.

[Land of Enchantment]

8. Hmmmm..

[kwassa]

9. Trone spent almost 13 million and lost. I like that.

Political offices should not be up for sale to the richest individual.

[AngryAmish]

10. A blow against the scum!

[GulfCoast66]

12. Wow! Scum??

Is that now how we are describing members of our own party who do not align with us in all areas? And you expect to be able to build a nation wide majority?

Just for kicks and grins...how do you describe the republicans?

[Kingofalldems]

11. Trone was incredibly annoying.

[UTUSN]

13. I don't know Kathleen, just that Tweety is a misogynist & a flunky. Allow me to explain.

Yeah, Tweety was (and *thought* he was) one of ours. But he made it plain that he fell in love with RAYGUN. It's about Tweety being a D.C. *FLUNKY*. A D.C. flunky gets all his "power" from his Boss. If the Boss is a WINNER and powerful, then everybody (all the other flunkies, plus media) follow him around, too, and ask him what he thinks and stuff.

But if the Boss LOSES, the whole pack of them all run over to the new one.

So starting with when Other Flunkie G.E.RUSSERT tutored Tweety into becoming a media yakker, I monitored Tweety, back to the FAKE impeachment days, then saw him kiss Mc5planes' ass, and Shrub's ass. Anyway, fast forward. I saw Tweety treat Kathleen dismissively and demeaningly when he deigned to let her on his show, along with his fellow Catholic school a-hole plaigiarist BARNICLE - how they giggled like Catholic school schoolboys while Kathleen was talking.

So, my point is (and I do have one), what happened to Tweety's vaunted armchair quarterbacking about political know-how, how come he couldn't pilot Kathleen to Victory?!1

[TheDormouse]

14. Really? I've only seen her on his show once & he was very gracious to her

then. And he always speaks reverentially of her when he mentions her (eg, "my queen&quot .

(I don't watch MSNBC anymore, but I used to until a few months ago.)

[CobaltBlue]

16. Very satisfying

The only person Kathleen Matthews would have deserved defeating was Chris Matthews.

[ladyVet]

17. Guess it goes to show that all that slurping and drooling over HRC didn't help.

Maybe he'll want his support of her back?