A possible smackdown in the Senate - Wapo

[spanone]

no bias there...that's the headline on their webpage..



HARWINTON, CONN. -- Melissa Russell, a Republican voter in a silk American-flag scarf, interrupted her chat with U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon at the Fairview Farms Golf Club here earlier this month to bring up an old acqu aintance.

"On a side note," said Russell, 41, "when I was in high school, I met Sergeant Slaughter. He came out of a camouflage limo!"

McMahon dipped her head back and laughed. Sgt. Slaughter, the '80s-era professional wrestling character, was known for dressing in fatigues and applying the "cobra clutch" hold on his Iranian archenemy, the Iron Sheik. He also wrestled for McMahon, whose entire business experience -- her sole qualification for public office -- has been built on the broad backs of muscle-men and -women in spandex.

A co-founder with her husband of the wildly successful World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), McMahon is willing to spend up to $50 million to fill the Senate seat opened by Chris Dodd's retirement. First she has to get by former congressman Rob Simmons in the Republican primary, then the heavily favored Democratic state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal.

"I am an outsider," McMahon, 61, said in an interview. "What I hear over and over and over again is, 'We want somebody with real-life business experience.' "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/21/AR2010022103981_pf.html

[Kingofalldems]

1. We are doomed if that woman gets to be a Senator

[joeybee12]

2. I don't know, not many voters want a steroid dealer in the Senate...

...that's all you were Linda, you worthless so-and-so.

[madinmaryland]

9. Considering massachussetts elected a male stripper...

:hide:

[joeybee12]

11. Oh, he wasn't a stripper...he was a ho...wanna bet he got money

for it a few times in his earlier "career"?????

[madinmaryland]

12. Thanks, joey! You just proved my point!

:D

[gratuitous]

3. So tell us, Linda

What does your "real-life business experience" tell you to do when an employee gets killed being dropped on a ring post? Or when another employee, driven mad by steroid ingestion, kills his entire family and himself? What do you do, other than pretend that the business you're raking in millions from had nothing to do with any of it?

[spanone]

4. seems like in america, success trumps all.

[Kingofalldems]

5. I read this morning the WWE does not offer health insurance

She claimed wrestlers were independent contractors. The perfect GOP company.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Sounds to me like pretty good training

to be a Republican Senator. It transfers directly into ducking responsibility for wars, torture, people dying for lack of health insurance, and the like.

[spanone]

6. funny, her wikipedia page says she's 66

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McMahon

[RKP5637]

7. Pretty much all you need is your money anymore in USA, Inc. to get into office. The hell

with qualifications and interests in the betterment of the country for ALL of the citizenry.

[Alexander]

10. Since Blumenthal has replaced Dodd, no Republican has a chance.

I drive by her campaign HQ on my way to work all the time. It's almost completely empty.

[sharp_stick]

13. That bitch is an outsider my ass

She yammers this shit from the fucking fairview farms golf club? What a skank, I bet I couldn't even get past the gate of that fucking place because my car isn't new enough.

Linda McMahon is wasting a shitload of cash on a race she doesn't have a hope in hell of even coming close to winning. She may buy the puke nomination but unless they find Blumenthal in a carnal act with a dead woman this race is already over.