What we missed

[yendi]

Via nihilistic_kid comes a 1994 Bob Backlund speech that I think was clearly going to be recycled as a victory speech had Linda McMahon won CT last night:

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Good news from the land of nutmeg: no Linda.
Bad news: Blumenthal is no Chris Dodd.
Worse news: Joe's still here.

True story: his wife was the gym teacher at my high school.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

*Bob Backlund's wife that is.

[yendi]

Heh. I read the first comment in email and was wondering which person you meant (and assumed one of Blumenthal or Lieberman).

[yendi]

I actually know almost nothing about Blumenthal, other than that he's not McMahon. Which is a huge selling point.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Not terrible. Did some good things as AG. Many, actually. But, like most of us down here, not nearly as liberal as it reads on the label.