The knives are out for Linda McMahon in Connecticut.
This former chief executive officer of the $1.2-billion entertainment juggernaut, World Wrestling Entertainment, has captured the delegate nomination as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. You can say the same about McMahon that Bloomberg Businessweek says about her business: She "operates under a cloud of elite disdain."
Amidst the howls of outrage from both the right and left sides of the political and media establishments, McMahon is poised for an upset in the August voter portion of a two-part primary. Elite media and politicians despise her, describing her as an "outsider" while decrying the source of her wealth and her Palin-esque view of politics (government spending is out of control, politicians are living large off the taxpayers, Washington is a swamp, etc.).
But the wrestling millionaire is in the midst of executing the kind of move increasingly seen in this, the year ordinary Americans began pushing back: a Triple-Damn Stinger Splash to the political and media elites. The 61-year-old blonde with the nerves of steel is taking her opponents head-on, splashing herself across their bodies as they stand in slack-jawed awe at the prospect of a real taxpayer taking on media-anointed politicians.
She has come from nowhere in a campaign that media observers called "quixotic at best" to crush the professional politicians who are helping Washington dismantle the United States. In doing so, she has introduced them to the Stinger Splash, in which she ran at them as they stood smugly in the corner, having decided which of the career Republican politicians would face a Democratic opponent for the seat being vacated by Democratic Senator Chris Dodd in November. No outsiders, no real people need apply. Political business as usual. Game over.
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