WTF! GOP Goes WWF! But Even $25 Million Can't Buy a Lot of Love

[babylonsister]

WTF! GOP Goes WWF! But Even $25 Million Can't Buy a Lot of Love
John Nichols
August 11, 2010


Most of them, it turns out, would have preferred not to nominate World Wrestling Federation executive Linda McMahon. She could not muster even half the GOP primary vote Tuesday, despite spending more than $25 million on one of the most expensive Senate primary runs in history.

With over half the vote counted, McMahon had 49 percent to 29 percent for former Congressman Rob Simmons and 22 percent for Ron Paul-ist businessman Peter Schiff.

Considering the fact that Simmons quit the race and then struggled with whether to get back in until the last minute—when it was still unclear whether he was fully committed to the run—McMahon's finish counts as a technical win. And an ugly one at that, since many leading Republicans and conservatives commentators expressed open dismay with her candidacy in the late stages of a primary that tended to be more focused on revelations regarding the WWF than the task of defeating Democrat Richard Blumenthal.

Blumenthal's well ahead in the polls and the Democratic National Committee was celebrating the McMahon "win" with a press release that declared: “Today the party of Bob Dole, Jack Kemp and Dick Lugar nominated a candidate who kicks men in the crotch, thinks of scenes of necrophilia as ‘entertainment,’ and runs an operation where women are forced to bark like dogs. This is what has become of the once grand old party.”

Ouch!

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[annabanana]

1. Ya gotta love the footage of her kicking some guy in the crotch!

(Keith showed it last night)

[Jefferson23]

2. And McMahon had run early ads awhile back referring to Blumenthal

as Dick. I am not aware that he or anyone refers to him as Dick, only Richard. The ad repeats the name Dick over and over to stress of
course that he is suppose to be one.

She is pathetic, and will likely lose.

[thelordofhell]

3. It's World Wrestling Entertainment or WWE now

The World Wildlife Fund had to sue to get them to change.

I hate to say it, but since I always get crap for impersonating Randy "Macho Man" Savage in posts about any WWF studies that predict dire straits for a species (i.e. WWF spokesman Randy "Macho Man" Savage says, "You Polar Bears are a goin' down Sunday at Summer Slam, Ohhhhhh Yeeeaaahhhh!"), I figure I should point this out.

:shrug:

[dtotire]

4. She is calling for reducing spending

In a deep recession that we are experiencing, this would only prolong it, result in higher unemployment,
and result in higher deficits. She is totally ignorant of, and probably unable to understand macroeconomics. Totally unfit to be a Senator, or any other higher office.