Linda McMahon Gets GOP Endorsement

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CT-SEN: Linda McMahon Gets GOP Endorsement
by brooklynbadboy
Sat May 22, 2010 at 07:56:02 AM PDT

It couldn't have happened to a dumber party:

Hartford - Republican Linda McMahon wrested her party's endorsement for the U.S. Senate nomination from rival Rob Simmons Friday night, using an aggressive floor effort to switch enough delegates on the convention floor to end the contest in a single round of voting.

"We are rebuilding and re-energizing the Republican Party in Connecticut," McMahon told delegates after the final tally, which gave her 737 delegates to Simmons' 632.

The nomination win was stunning even by the meteoric standards of the McMahon campaign, which has rocketed its candidate from political obscurity to a place in the state's most closely-watched election in just nine months powered by $16 million McMahon from a fortune made running World Wrestling Entertainment.

It also dealt a major blow to what once seemed a perfect opportunity for Simmons' political revival. The former three-term congressman from Stonington raced out to an early lead in the Republican contest to take on Sen. Chris Dodd, and later his Democratic successor on the ticket, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.


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1. What makes them dumb for nominating her?

She has spent $16 million already, so would seemingly have no issue spending at least twice that over the next 5 1/2 months to wn the election. She's already had ads out swinging at Blumenthal and I've heard nothing in response.

So, her husband said some controversial things while on TV - they can write it off as saying he was an entertainer whose job it is to provoke cheers for the good wrestlers or jeers for the bad wrestlers.