Chris Murphy, who's not afraid to talk about his ideas in public.
In the final debate of the Connecticut senate race, Republican Linda McMahon said she couldn't present her plan for Social Security, which she has previously said should be sunsetted,
because of the media.
[S]he has declined to get into the specifics of how she might keep the entitlement program solvent. During Thursday’s debate she offered an explanation for her reluctance.
“I’ve not talked about specifics when I’ve been on the campaign trail because they get demagogued and you have no opportunity at all when you go in and put the issues on the table to discuss them,” McMahon said, adding that it’s necessary to reform the program and there are many ways to do it.
It's just fantastic that she said this at a debate, at a forum where she's given the opportunity to present her positions to the people directly, without the "demgogued" filter of the media. McMahon did, in fact, present her Social Security sunsetting idea
directly to the people, to a tea party group who loved it. It's just when the larger public heard about it that she started having to
furiously, and ineffectively, backpedal.
McMahon's problem isn't a demagoguing media, it's that she has really bad, unpopular ideas. But she's got a lot of money, which is how she's managed to stay in this race. To be specific, she's put $27.3 million of her own money into this race. Not this one and the 2010 run combined, but just this cycle. That's "92 percent of her total war chest of $29,324,500."
She doesn't have a decent policy idea in her head. She doesn't have popular support. But she has an ill-gotten fortune. She's the perfect Republican.
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