Short Takes on R Election Problems

by DemFromCT

Tsk tsk. The DC media is going to have a hard time keeping this about how Dems are upsetting the apple cart in CT. Give Joe's Senate seat to a Republican? I don't think so.

State GOP leaders have asked the Republican seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman to reconsider his campaign because he used a fake name to gamble at a casino in the 1990s, a newspaper reported.

Alan Schlesinger acknowledged that he had used a bogus name to obtain a card that Foxwoods Resort Casino patrons can use to win rewards. Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Republican State Chairman George Gallo asked him to reconsider running, The Hartford Courant reported.

"I am not going to let this bother me," Schlesinger said. "I am going to continue in the race."

No, he won't. But as many note, this does not help Lieberman's case (Scared of an R takeover? I don't think so).

Meanwhile, remember Katherine Harris?

Update: Harris's office just sent out this e-mail:

(Tampa, Fla.) -- Katherine Harris announced today she has accepted the resignation of her communications director Chris Ingram from her U.S. Senate campaign. My campaign appreciates the effort and energy Chris brought to the job. He served in an important role in my campaign and he did a great job, and I wish him well,” said Harris. “I wish Katherine and the campaign well, and look forward to returning to managing my company, 411 Communications,” Ingram said. Contrary to earlier reports, Harris has only accepted the resignation of Chris Ingram. On Monday, Katherine Harris undergoes surgery for a previously described medical condition. “I look forward to returning to the campaign trail swiftly following my medical procedure,” said Harris.

Let's pay a little more attention to Republican implosions (see Bob Ney) in addition to perseverating over real and perceived Dem disunity. Elections are not held in a vacuum.

[UPDATE]: I don't want to forget Ralph Reed, who may help Dems by winning his Georgia primary for Lt. Gov., thereby convincing brain-dead pundits that primaries are the same as general elections.

Comments

[Pete]

The same people who saw the 2004 election as a vindication of Bush's Iraq war policy are now somehow upset that there is a clear demarcation between the Iraq war stand of the two CT candidates.

Lets make the 2006 elections a referendum on Iraq.

[Peoz]

Related to Laura Ingram? I heard one of those hosts(radio) is the daughter of the CIA operations officers(retired) running Counter Terrorism blog.

[DemFromCT]

interesting comment:

7/12: Calm Before The Storm?

The blogosphere's left is far more active in campaigns then their counterparts on the right, so the Blogometer may make it seem like only liberals and progressives have internal fights while the right coasts merrily along. Everyone's focus on CT SEN only worsens the situation, but as the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Jr. points out 7/11, the post-Bush vacuum may change all that. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is no GOP uniter and the righty blogosphere has not come close to coalescing around an alternative. Additionally, the biggest bloggers on the right traffic-wise (Instapundit, Andrew Sullivan, Kausfiles) are all decidedly less socially conservative than the traditional GOP base (represented on line better by The Corner and RedState). Maybe, just maybe, Dems and the 'spheres left could benefit by having their big proxy fight in '06 (ie CT SEN) instead of in '08.

[emptypockets]

That Hotline link reads like it's straight out of the Onion.

[REpublican state chariman George] Gallo, who is close to Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell, said, “Our mistake is that we only vetted candidates using their real names.”

I wonder if his fake identity, Alan Gold, had any meaning to him. It's the name of a writer and Judaism scholar, and of course can be rearranged to spell "ALL GONAD."

[smiley]

On Monday, Katherine Harris undergoes surgery for a previously described medical condition.

/totally unfair snark on:

What, she's going to make them BIGGER?

[DemFromCT]

Oops... almost forgot...

However, win or lose on Tuesday (or in November), Emory University's Black says that the Abramoff scandal has taken a toll on [Ralph] Reed, who has gone from a Republican rising star to someone who's fighting for his political life in a Georgia primary. "The boyish look is gone. This is one of the worst experiences in Reed's life."

[Hostile]

It would be pleasing to see Reed's comeuppance.

[Mimikatz]

There's a great new Dem ad here if you scroll down a bit.

And as the fundraising numbers come in, I think there is going to be great consternation in the GOP, as many Dems are setting records and there are at least 5 Dem challengers with $1 million plus cash on hand. The enthusiasm is definitely on the Dem side.

[Mimikatz]

And one more astute commentator has noticed that there are some fissures in the GOP machine. I especially loved the part at the end about a possible presidential bid by Jeff Sessions (R-AL) based on the immmigration issue.