Linda McMahon is out to defuse what could be her biggest liability in her U.S. Senate campaign in Connecticut: her old job as chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment. In a new political ad, the Republican hopeful casually mentions that she had a "regular job" before running for Senate. The ad then quickly cuts to footage of massive explosions and a wrestler leaping out of the ring toward an opponent. "OK," McMahon smiles. "Maybe not a regular job." You can watch the spot here:
The WWE, McMahon says, is a "soap opera that entertains millions every week." And in a clear attempt to beat her critics to the punch, she acknowledges, "Everyone gets in on the action." Cut to several seconds of footage of McMahon in the ring pitted against towering wrestlers. (Sadly, there are no clips of McMahon slamming anyone with a steel chair.)
"This isn't real, but our problems are," McMahon tells the viewer, as she launches into an attack on Washington's excessive spending as it relates to job loss in the state.
The ad is a testament to one of the most important rules of politics: Identify your weaknesses and define them for voters before your opponents can exploit them. Already Democrats have been looking to undermine McMahon by tying her to the excessive violence of the WWE. But McMahon is the first to use actual footage not only of the WWE but of herself in the ring — an obvious target for negative messaging that Democrats had been saving to break out in the fall. Her decision to call the WWE a "soap opera" likely won't please the millions of fans who have made McMahon a rich woman, but it could help her standing with voters, who, according to polls, have a largely negative opinion of her.
Still, the move is risky, in part because McMahon's WWE background has already stymied the progress of her campaign in a few respects. Recently, for instance, she was named a defendant in a civil suit seeking damages for the accidental death of WWE wrestler Owen Hart, who died in an aerial stunt gone awry. And in an interview, she deemed the adverse health effects of steroid use "inconclusive" — thereby reminding voters of the controversial use of steroids and other banned performance-enhancing substitutes in the WWE.
— Holly Bailey is a senior politics writer for ! News.
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Former WWE CEO Runs for US Senate Office
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Would You Vote For Linda McMahon?
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Well if she really is going to do good then I wish her luck, but if she's going to be like so many others then she needs to sit down, shut up, and stay out of politics.
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I don't think her past job should hider her try for the senate. It's a money making business just as taking care of a state is. You want your state to grow and make more money for the residents,etc. The only things I would want to know is why she thinks she should be elected and what her plans are for her state.
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can she be any worse than what we have now?
Success is doing what you love, and doing it so well that someone will pay you for it.
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Prior celebrity status has never impeded them from running before, even WWE wrestlers get elected. Jesse Ventura ran into the same problem running for governor of Minnesota, but won. I don't know how these previous jobs will help them in any way, except maybe business sense. They (people like Linda McMahon I mean, not Ventura) do know how to make money and run large businesses successfully. I don't know if they should be policy makers, but should be fine on money management.
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I spent six months working for the WWE back in 2001 (at that point, it was still the WWF). Working at Titan Towers in the Global Media Department, I got to know Linda McMahon quite well. I wasn't surprised last fall when she announced her candidacy, as she had been talking about running for political office for quite some time.
"Nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos. (We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.)"
"Nil satis nisi optimum. (Nothing but the best will do.)"
"I hate it when things don't go my way. It makes me so...horny." - Sarah Michelle Gellar (Kathryn, Cruel Intentions)
"Sex is just alone time with someone else there." - Taint on The Lex And Terry Show, 11/11/09
"Stupidity isn't a crime, so you're free to go."
"I am The Devil, too. There can only be one devil. One of us must go." - Ozzy Osbourne at the end of his cover of "Sympathy For The Devil"
"Your ego is not your amigo." - Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries
"It's my world. I'm just letting you live here." - Mandy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
"Nil satis nisi optimum. (Nothing but the best will do.)"
"I hate it when things don't go my way. It makes me so...horny." - Sarah Michelle Gellar (Kathryn, Cruel Intentions)
"Sex is just alone time with someone else there." - Taint on The Lex And Terry Show, 11/11/09
"Stupidity isn't a crime, so you're free to go."
"I am The Devil, too. There can only be one devil. One of us must go." - Ozzy Osbourne at the end of his cover of "Sympathy For The Devil"
"Your ego is not your amigo." - Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries
"It's my world. I'm just letting you live here." - Mandy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
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I spent six months working for the WWE back in 2001 (at that point, it was still the WWF). Working at Titan Towers in the Global Media Department, I got to know Linda McMahon quite well. I wasn't surprised last fall when she announced her candidacy, as she had been talking about running for political office for quite some time.
What was your impression of her?
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Linda's an amazing person who IMO (which some of you might think is biased due to my connection to her) can and will do a better job than most of the current Senators.
"Nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos. (We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.)"
"Nil satis nisi optimum. (Nothing but the best will do.)"
"I hate it when things don't go my way. It makes me so...horny." - Sarah Michelle Gellar (Kathryn, Cruel Intentions)
"Sex is just alone time with someone else there." - Taint on The Lex And Terry Show, 11/11/09
"Stupidity isn't a crime, so you're free to go."
"I am The Devil, too. There can only be one devil. One of us must go." - Ozzy Osbourne at the end of his cover of "Sympathy For The Devil"
"Your ego is not your amigo." - Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries
"It's my world. I'm just letting you live here." - Mandy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
"Nil satis nisi optimum. (Nothing but the best will do.)"
"I hate it when things don't go my way. It makes me so...horny." - Sarah Michelle Gellar (Kathryn, Cruel Intentions)
"Sex is just alone time with someone else there." - Taint on The Lex And Terry Show, 11/11/09
"Stupidity isn't a crime, so you're free to go."
"I am The Devil, too. There can only be one devil. One of us must go." - Ozzy Osbourne at the end of his cover of "Sympathy For The Devil"
"Your ego is not your amigo." - Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries
"It's my world. I'm just letting you live here." - Mandy, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
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living just over th CT line in RI, I was really interested in following who would replace that unindicted criminal, Dodd. I was impressed that she defeated a very well known and well financed former US Representative, and her Dem opponenet has some "truth" issues about nhis military service. It sure is heating up over there.