McMahon Knocks Out Opponents in GOP Senate Primary

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/10/mcmahon-knocks-opponents-gop-senate-primary-eyes-blumenthal/


Linda McMahon Knocks Out Opponents in GOP Senate Primary, Eyes Blumenthal

Published August 10, 2010


Linda McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, was the last woman standing Tuesday in a battle royal – this time in the political arena.

McMahon won the GOP primary in Connecticut, crushing money manager Peter Schiff and former Rep. Rob Simmons, the one-time favorite who suspended his campaign months ago but recently ran an ad reminding voters his name remained on the ballot.

McMahon will face State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who was unopposed for the Democrats' Senate nomination, in November to succeed retiring Chris Dodd, also a Democrat.

"Tonight, I am honored to have earned the support of Republicans around Connecticut," McMahon said in her victory speech, adding that she will be a voice of change.

"This election is about jobs. The American Dream is threatened, but Washington continues its reckless spending, massive debt, and tax increases," she said. "Washington is suffocating small businesses and killing jobs. This is not only threatening our well-being, but also the well-being of our children and grandchildren. It's time for something different."

GOP contenders included Lt. Gov. Michael Fidele; Tom Foley, a businessman and former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, and business executive Oz Griebel.

Democrats seeking a ticket to the fall campaign were former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy and Ned Lamont, a businessman making his second try for statewide office. Lamont won a Senate primary four years ago, upsetting Sen. Joe Lieberman, who then won a new term in the fall as an independent.

In other Connecticut races, former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy defeated businessman Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for governor, overcoming a better-known and better-funded opponent in the final weeks of the campaign.

Malloy on Tuesday narrowly bested Lamont after a campaign that turned negative, with the candidates trading accusations about each other's records.

For Malloy, the primary victory was a redemption of sorts for his loss in the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primary against New Haven Mayor John DeStefano. This time, Malloy said it was easier to differentiate himself from Lamont, a Greenwich businessman best known for challenging Sen. Joe Lieberman in 2006.

Malloy will face the winner of a three-way Republican primary.

Lamont spent more than $8.6 million in the losing effort.

State Sen. Sam Caligiuri held off challenges from two other Republicans to win the party's nomination in the 5th congressional district.

Caligiuri entered the race late last year after dropping out of the contest for U.S. Senate, then won the party's endorsement at its May convention.

He was challenged by Justin Bernier, a veteran who served in Afghanistran, and Mark Greenberg, a Litchfield real estate developer.

Caligiuri, who also served as acting mayor of Waterbury following the arrest of Mayor Philip Giordano on child sex charges, will face U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy in November.

Caligiuri currently holds the state Senate seat vacated by Murphy when he was elected to Congress in 2006.

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Time for a Hell In A Cell steel cage match for the November election!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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Time for a Hell In A Cell steel cage match for the November election!

LOL Now, that would get my kid interested in politics!

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And she did it with no debates, few open public apearances, little on camera comments and by spending a ton of money on adds

She most certainly was not the best candidate

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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She most certainly was not the best candidate

According to whom? The whole point of being a candidate is to get votes. She got the most of them. According to the voting public she was the best.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

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She is already on the attack. Just got mail from her campaign yesterday the was about Blumenthal and his lies about serving in vietnam. It had about ten different vets in full color with commentary.

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Time for a Hell In A Cell steel cage match for the November election!

Women's cage match would be really
HOT! Does McMahon have a woman opponent?


Chuck

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>Time for a Hell In A Cell steel cage match . . .

For sheer entertainment value I can think of a few other GOP primaries that would be fun to watch:

Jesse Ventura vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sarah Palin vs Linda McMahon
Glenn Beck vs Joe the Plumber

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She most certainly was not the best candidate

According to whom? The whole point of being a candidate is to get votes. She got the most of them. According to the voting public she was the best.

And that is a popularity contest.

For sure she is far from the worst too so cool your jets

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,120]

>And that is a popularity contest.

Yep, a contest otherwise known as "democracy."

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>And that is a popularity contest.

Yep, a contest otherwise known as "democracy."

Not if you look at what is in the White House right now. In this case is it a move away from it

And yet again, the US is NOT a democracy.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,120]

>Not if you look at what is in the White House right now.

You mean our democratically elected administration? "I don't like who the people elected so it's not democracy" is one of the most common whines here, and is pretty meaningless.

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>Not if you look at what is in the White House right now.

You mean our democratically elected administration? "I don't like who the people elected so it's not democracy" is one of the most common whines here, and is pretty meaningless.

Hook, line, and sinker!!!

Oh, and the US is not a democracy, even though you and the Dems would like it to be one

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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>Not if you look at what is in the White House right now.

You mean our democratically elected administration? "I don't like who the people elected so it's not democracy" is one of the most common whines here, and is pretty meaningless.

Hook, line, and sinker!!!

Oh, and the US is not a democracy, even though you and the Dems would like it to be one

No, it's a representative republic.

Where the representatves are democratically elected.

And those elections are pure popularity contests.
Whoever can get the most voters to believe their line wins.

And I don't like him much, but Obama won the popularity contest by a large margin, Because his "hope and change" line was more popular.

And because Bush had become so unpopular.

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>Not if you look at what is in the White House right now.

You mean our democratically elected administration? "I don't like who the people elected so it's not democracy" is one of the most common whines here, and is pretty meaningless.

Hook, line, and sinker!!!

Oh, and the US is not a democracy, even though you and the Dems would like it to be one

No, it's a representative republic.

Where the representatves are democratically elected.

And those elections are pure popularity contests.
Whoever can get the most voters to believe their line wins.

And I don't like him much, but Obama won the popularity contest by a large margin, Because his "hope and change" line was more popular.

And because Bush had become so unpopular.

Not much to argue with here except large margin. Which is of course a subjective comment on your part.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln