Connecticut Dems Cut Weak Promo On Mrs. McMahon

The Connecticut Democratic Party is actually taking the Senate run by Linda McMahon seriously.

The Politico's Glenn Thrush writes:

Connecticut Democrats are Bible Belting Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon for all the evil, nasty, fun, weird stuff that happens at her husband's WWE wrestling events, Meredith Shiner reports.

In a priggish release sent to reporters today — reminiscent of the GOP's morality stand against old Al Franken routines — Democrats attacked McMahon, wife of WWE mogul Vince McMahon, for condoning "simulated rape, public sex and necrophilia."

As proof, they included several YouTube clips of male and female wrestlers in compromising positions — including footage of a male wrestler getting frisky with a fake corpse — which suddenly disappeared from the Web minutes after the Dems called out McMahon.

Vince's WWE has legal copyright authority over all the clips.

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I haven't seen any polling, but this kind of weak attack makes me think that the Connecticut Democratic Party really thinks that McMahon has a shot at winning the Republican nomination. I've seen some crazy shit go down in American politics, but nominating the wife of Vince McMahon to a position of power should be beyond the bounds of reason even for Republicans.

Maybe the Connecticut Dems are engaging in some brilliant political theater. Perhaps they feel that a lame attack like this should legitimize McMahon enough to win over the base and then Chris Dodd can beat her in the general election when calmer heads will likely prevail. I've seen Linda McMahon's on camera performances--she's a disaster.