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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 03:58 PM
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N.Y. Republican Stumbles Against Clinton

N.Y. Republican Stumbles Against Clinton

Monday March 27, 2006 2:48pm

NEW YORK (AP) - It didn't take long before the wheels started coming off Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland's campaign to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Things got off to a promising start in early March, with favorable publicity and several national TV interviews for the wealthy, 54-year-old McFarland, a Reagan-era Pentagon official who spent the last 20 years raising a family and has never held elective office.

But then McFarland was hit with embarrassing disclosures about her voting history, including her registering in two places and missing several elections. Records suggest she did not even vote in 1984, when Reagan, her boss and political hero, was seeking re-election, though she believes she didn't miss that one.

Then The New York Times reported that she had inflated her resume by overstating her rank in the Pentagon and by claiming to have written Reagan's "Star Wars" speech.

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And recently, she told a campaign audience - jokingly, she later insisted - that Clinton had sent helicopters to spy on her. But the story was splashed across the tabloids.

Democrats are snickering, and former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, a fellow Republican, has declared McFarland's candidacy "a joke."

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http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0306/313901.html


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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:01 PM
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1. I forget- is this republican #2, 3 or 4?
:shrug:
:evilgrin:
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:03 PM
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2. This isn't the "Do I have page 10?" and laughing at a funeral one,
Is it?
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:09 PM
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6. Pirro was the missing page one
I don't know who was laughing at the funeral.

And they call Dems "unhinged."
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:15 PM
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7. Nope. They found ANOTHER winner!
:woohoo:
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:19 PM
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10. Hard to keep track. Remember Edward F. Cox?
Edited on Mon Mar-27-06 04:21 PM by mcscajun
Nixon's son-in-law...He was going to run before Gov. Pataki pushed Pirro. So, Cox dropped out.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:03 PM
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3. No doubt "KT" was a very successful young republican once
Obviously there are no "conservatives" in New York with large swinging testicles to take on Hillary. Nor any with brain stems.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:05 PM
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4. And we thought the fun would be over when Janet Pirro dropped out!
:headbang:
rocknation
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:07 PM
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5. What happened to pretty boy Lazio?
He won't try it again eh?
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:17 PM
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8. Hillary flies a Black Hawk over McFarland's house
and Hillary boiled McFarland's pet rabbit.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:18 PM
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9. Alan Keyes for Senate!!!
I can't wait. He's the obvious choice.

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chaumont58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:34 PM
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11. If the repukes really want to win, they will nominate Hillary
and pretend she will run as a repuke.

It really is funny what the repuke party has become in two very populous states: New York and California.
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