WELL, SHE ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT PHONY WORLDS – AT 11:06 A.M. ET:  Following on the streak of weird choices begun with the nomination of Rand Paul for the Senate from Kentucky, the GOP has now selected Linda McMahon as its Senate candidate in Connecticut.

Who's she, you ask.  You'd better.  Among other indications of refinement and class, she's the co-founder of the Worldwide Wrestling Federation, that great organizer of on-the-level wrestling events.  Uh, she will face a primary challenge, which will actually decide the nomination.

So, as Sinatra might have said, leave us we should examine how the GOP is exploiting its advantages.  Connecticut is a blue state.  Its attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, the Dem Senate candidate, was seen as a shoo-in for election in November...until this week when we learned he lied about his Vietnam War record.  That put the seat into play.  So who do the Republicans come up with, now that they've got a real shot? 

Why, of course, a lady who made her fortune in...wrestling.  That'll certainly move the foreign-policy crowd.  Well, I guess there are foreign wrestlers.  I'm assuming the GOP gave Ms. Full Nelson the nod because she can finance her own campaign.

Coming after Rand Paul, the beat goes on.  What next?  A female impersonator? 

May 22, 2010