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Linda McMahon, who will be testing a second run at the Senate in the next election cycle, announced her support of fellow New Englander Mitt Romney in the current battle for the GOP nomination for president. McMahon, a RINO in the mold of John McCain and Mitt Romney, surprised no one with the move; not only does it play well regionally with East Coast RINOs, but Romney is the closest match to McMahon in her RINOism.

So if you’re searching for good girlfriend gift ideas for Christmas, a campaign contribution to the Romney campaign is one way to go among East Coast RINOs, especially if you’re a WWE-loving one.

But I’m certain there are better ideas.

Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Blumenthal must feel desperate in his race against former WWE CEO and GOP Senate hopeful Linda McMahon, because he went straight into the gutter recently. He did this by dragging into the Connecticut spotlight Michael Benoit, father of the late WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, to make a bunch of grief-induced charges against WWE and Linda.

Talk about ambulance chasing and capitalizing on a pro wrestler’s death? WWE never did anything this disrespectful to the Benoit family. Still think Blumenthal is Senate-worthy, Connecticut? Or is he promising all of your cash advances to your next WWE house show?

Linda McMahon won the GOP primary for the US Senate seat currently held by retiring Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, who, it was determined early on, didn’t stand a chance of being re-elected. So the Dems nominated Richard Blumenthal, a popular Connecticut Democrat, after realizing the GOP was well on its way to nominating someone with the name recognition of Linda McMahon.

McMahon received approximately 49 percent of the vote, while Rob Simmons got 28 percent and Peter Schiff 23 percent. The national Democratic machine was quick to attack McMahon along all the predictable lines of attack for a former CEO of a company like WWE. Whether voters in Connecticut will respond to such fear-mongering or vote on the issues remains to be seen.

McMahon might be more resilient to criticism if she had run a medical assistant school rather than WWE; yet her company’s product has certainly kept her in touch with blue-collar voters.

Connecticut Democrats, faced with an electorate so ticked off with incumbent Senator Chris Dodd that they’re even polling as willing to elect a former WWE CEO over Dodd, have dealt a smackdown to Linda McMahon’s US Senate bid. On Wednesday, Dodd is expected to retire his seat, tossing the election wide open.

Dodd’s replacement on the Dem side is expected to be Connecticut state attorney general Richard Blumenthal, described by many as one of the state’s most popular politicians, and a solid Dem in solidly blue Connecticut.

While both McMahon and fellow GOP contender Rob Simmons had been polling well ahead of Dodd in recent months, they are not expected to fare as well against Blumenthal, once the switcharoo is complete.

This emergency evacuation of Dodd’s seat is a desperation move on the Dem’s part to try and secure the seat to remain in Dem hands and help maintain their 60-vote control of the US Senate in the upcoming midterms.

While McMahon or Simmons could still pull it off is an open question, it’s gone from being a sure thing to an uphill fight overnight.

Connecticut Democratic US Senator Chris Dodd’s days may be numbered.

Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon’s opponents for the GOP nomination to face Dodd are dropping quickly by the wayside; what used to be a field of five is down to two serious contenders. In one corner, McMahon with a $50 million campaign war chest out of her own personal fortune; in the other corner, Rob Simmons, a more experienced Republican politician in Connecticut, though it remains to be seen whether he has the financial wherewithal to stand up to McMahon in the long term.

Simmons, however, is also independently wealthy and can sustain a campaign.

Both candidates received encouraging news last week, though, when it was announced in a statewide straw poll that both McMahon and Simmons would win in a hypothetical race against the incumbent, Dodd. Maybe if Dodd loses his Senate seat, he can fall back into a second profession, like medical assistant training school. You think?

The Associated Press and other news sources indicate that Connecticut Democrats and others connected to incumbent US Senator Chris Dodd’s re-election campaign are already alleging illegal activity against Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon, wife of WWE co-founder Vince McMahon and herself the former CEO of WWE.

The allegations? Well, Dodd’s campaign has been trying to discredit McMahon by highlighting tawdry scenes from past WWE broadcasts, including a “simulated rape scene” in a sketch involving promoting a match between Triple H and Kane; the sketch was performed as part of the controversial WWE Attitude era.

The videos Connecticut Dems were using to back their misleading allegations were found on YouTube.com. Apparently, WWE asked YouTube to remove the videos and YouTube complied. Dems allege this is “illegal campaigning” in behalf of WWE for Linda McMahon.

Unfortunately for Dodd and the Dems, the law seems to be on WWE’s side; YouTube.com often has copyrighted material available on their site without proper permission being obtained, and while they try to contain it themselves, the volume of material uploaded makes it a massive task.

However, whenever any copyright holder requests specific material to be taken down, YouTube always complies quickly. WWE’s position is that they asked YouTube to take the offending videos down because they were copyrighted material used without permission, not as a campaign favor.

Our view at ProWrestlingViews? Dodd’s campaign has to be scared of Linda’s name recognition if they’re nitpicking over YouTube copyrighted material removal issues like this. It’s a huge stretch to call that “illegal campaign activity,” even if WWE did target those videos revealed to exist on YouTube by the Dems’ campaign charges. They’d find traction easier complaining about WWE’s past history of promoting unhealthy weight loss supplements. But not by much.

US Democratic Senator Chris Dodd and the Connecticut Democratic Party is behind a YouTube effort to minimize and discredit Linda McMahon, even though she’s not yet even the GOP’s nominee. Already, they are mining over 4396841 scenes from Raw, Smackdown, ECW and various PPVs over the past 25 years to come up with some really damning stuff.

Of course, they found the infamous “Katie Vick” storyline in which Triple H accuses Kane, who he was to face at a PPV, of being a murderer and necrophiliac. Katie Vick was the name given to Kane’s alleged victim, and Triple H in a sketch intended to demean Kane through comedy, tactlessly simulates the supposed murder of Vick.

Tacky and tasteless? Sure. But it’s interesting that Dodd and the Connecticut Dems are already pulling out the big guns like this, when Linda hasn’t even won a straw poll among the state’s GOP faithful. Seems a bit premature. Could they be worried about her potential appeal if she does secure the nomination?

Oh well… you can always trust a Democrat to stab you in the back.

Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, wife of WWE owner Vince McMahon, resigned from the WWE recently to run against Democratic incumbent Senator Chris Dodd in Connecticut. McMahon, who is running as a Republican, will have to beat back a couple of other GOP hopefuls before she is ensured of facing off with Dodd, but with her name recognition, winning the party endorsement is not seen as too big a hurdle at this point.

McMahon is expected to run as a fiscal conservative and a government spending fat burner, but if she runs also as a social conservative, it may prove a hard sell to a public largely unaware of her on-screen roles on WWE.

In her WWE persona, McMahon has often played the cuckolded wife to husband Vince’s flagrant philandering ways, and that just includes the sketches that can be repeated in relatively socially-acceptable terms. Far more challenging will be defending the general content of WWE programming, a line of attack Dodd’s campaign is almost certain to leverage against the GOP challenger.

However, if Linda McMahon can focus on her fiscal experience turning WWE into a multi-billion-dollar company and how she plans to bring fiscal restraint to Washington, compared to Dodd’s tax-and-spend record, she could stand a chance. Word is McMahon plans to spend up to $30 million of her own personal fortune on the campaign, and will take little to no public money in seeking elective office.

McMahon has not run for public office prior to this campaign; she will rely on her private-sector experience in WWE to prove her qualifications as a leader. And that $30 million war chest may be enough to put pressure on the incumbency advantage Dodd enjoys.

OK, in reality, we know that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are husband and wife, initially drawn together by an in-ring fictional story that cast them as a couple. Now they have their first child and no one questions it.

But the new storyline in the McMahon Family Saga is that Vince fathered an illegitimate child in the past and he or she is now the “missing McMahon,” who’s probably pretty pissed off about missing out on the chance to share bunk beds with Steph and Shane, Vinny Mac’s two real-life kids.

Is this tacky? Sure. But is it better and safer than a fictional murder storyline when a real-life WWE superstar committed a double-murder then took his own life?

You bet.