FORENSICS – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Not like “SUPER-TUESDAY” but very significant nevertheless; there were some very highly contested primaries throughout the country.
The first and most significant was that of Senator Blanche Lincoln who was running a run-off because she had not previously obtained the 50% required to win the nomination. She was being challenged by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter who is a far more progressive Democrat and who seriously damaged Lincoln’s chances to win the general election in the fall.
To put this into perspective: it should be clear to Lincoln and other CORPORATE
DEMOCRATS DINOs (Democrats in name only) that being in the pockets of the big corporations instead of representing the constituents that elected her can be a devastating position.
Come general election time and no liberal progressive is going to bat for her, they are not even luke-warm nor motivated to support Lincoln; furthermore, she will be facing a more consolidated, well funded Republican opponent. I think where Lincoln made her mistake was in confusing the constituents she was representing; she thought that she was to pander to the ultra-right conservatives in her state and also to represent the big insurance companies. She opposed the Public Option and in retrospect she should not have, it wasn’t going to be passed anyhow and she wasted all her political capital.
In Nevada there was a rift among Tea Party segments where some supported Gov. Jim Gibbons when he failed to convince Republicans to give him another chance at a four-year term; Tea Party darling Sharron Angle came out on top while a Tea Party-backed candidate won the GOP nod to challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid is still in trouble but the chances are much better for him now.
And in California the unthinkable: Orly Taitz may very well be the candidate in the Republican ticket for the position of Secretary of State. I am sure you know who she is: the right-wing fanatic who has put out bogus Obama birth certificates and has gone into frivolous litigations and lost. Even the right-wing radical Republicans have been trying to stay away from her because she is so toxic, so radioactively nutty.
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina won the state's Republican Senate primary and will face three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November. Polls suggest that Boxer faces a tough re-election battle.
Money again won the day: In California, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman topped Steve Poizner in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
Whitman, who also was an adviser and surrogate for Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid, spent around $70 million of her own money. Poizner, California's insurance commissioner and a self-made multi-millionaire, injected some $25 million of his money into his campaign.
I just can’t imagine spending $70 million just to win a governorship and even $25 million of your own money…what is wrong with this chick? Is her need for validation so dire, so desperate?
PHOTO CREDITS: http://blogs.reuters.com/commodity-corner/files/2009/10/lincoln-portrait-2007.jpg
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