Clinton Challenger Pulled From Reagan-Era Hat

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It was supposed to be a marquee Republican campaign of the 2006 elections — a fusillade-style effort to defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, which, even if it did not succeed, would excite donors nationally, raise millions for the party and perhaps weaken Mrs. Clinton before the 2008 presidential race.

Instead, to the chagrin of Republicans in New York and Washington, the party has not recovered from the December implosion of Jeanine F. Pirro's campaign against Mrs. Clinton. Republicans have been desperate for a credible challenger, while party leaders in Washington have tried to fill the vacuum by attacking Mrs. Clinton as "angry" and "brittle" — criticism they wish was coming from the campaign trail in New York. To put it nicely, the Republican game plan is nowhere after a year of strategizing and overtures to at least six potential challengers. One of those challengers even calls the selection process "a Keystone Kops operation," and the only Republican now running, John Spencer, denounces "party elitists" who are against him.

Just weeks ago, Mr. Spencer looked poised to be the challenger, with a record of accomplishment as a former mayor of Yonkers. But with a caustic manner and a history of marital infidelity, Mr. Spencer may foil the party's drive for female voters and match up badly against Mrs. Clinton, some Republicans say.

Those Republican critics are now coalescing around a late entry: Kathleen Troia McFarland, 54, a protégée of Henry A. Kissinger who has not been in public service since working as a Pentagon spokeswoman under President Ronald Reagan. Yet Ms. McFarland, known as K. T., is pretty green: She has been a stay-at-home mother since 1985, and was drawn to the Senate race only because she already believed she was going to lose her bid for a Congressional seat on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/nyregion/03challenger.html?hp&ex=1141362000&en=d9d08b2fc837f7ee&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Hahahaha .... a probable loser going on to losing even bigger. How quaint.

Everywhere you look these days it seems the Repubs are becoming the gang that couldn't shoot straight ....... with, of course, the notable exception of Deadeye Dick.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. What a headline

Here I was thinking that there was some hat with big Repubs from the Reagan era on it somewhere, and someone took Bob Dole off of it :crazy:

[C_U_L8R]

3. Maybe the repukes' heart just isn't in it anymore

(beside the fact that they have no hearts)
all that evil-doin' is hard work y'know
it's hard work i tell ya

[MrBenchley]

4. Amazing that the GOP actually found someone WORSE than Pirro

Spencer reached new depths in GOP idiocy....

[AtomicKitten]

5. Bring her on.

Like I said here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2490364, I hope Ms. McFarland is poised for a righteous ass-kicking.