Kirsten Gillibrand for Hillary’s Senate seat. I like the cut of her jib:
- She bucked House leadership by voting against both versions of the TARP bailout bill in the fall.
- A big gun supporter, she’s been given a 100% approval rating by the NRA — she’s one of the extremely few Democrats on a federal level to win official NRA endorsement — and, this fall, she voted in favor of a controversial bill to repeal District of Columbia laws prohibiting the possession of semiautomatics.
- A couple more mavericky votes: She was the only New York Democrat to support the May 2007 war-funding bill; the others voted against it because it did not contain a troop-withdrawal timetable. She also voted for H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, which extended immunity to telecoms that spied on U.S. citizens at the behest of the Bush administration.
She’s no Sarah Palin (although, according to the TNR post, she did deliver her 1-year old son after sitting through a 13-hour Armed Services Committee hearing), but It doesn’t hurt that all the right correct voices are howling.
I like this one:
More nightmares for the Moonbat of the House.
Headline at link:
Liberal Dems – generally speaking, isn’t that redundant?
Kris,
As a New Englander you may be aware a New York Republican is like a Democrat in Arkansas, Alabama, or Tennessee. The political difference between George Pataki and Bill Clinton was measured using microscopes.
While Gillibrand got a 100 from the NRA, she also got a 100 from the ACLU, 96 from AFL-CIO, 100 from the National Organization for Women, an A grade from Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, an A grade from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and a 95 from the League of Conservation Voters.
The Club for Growth gave her a 2, Christian Coalition scored her at 8, and James Dobson’s Family Research Council gave her a 5.
I’ve met her, she is very smart, engaged, family centric, very likable, she was a successful attorney in a corporate law firm, and she is loved by her district because she stood up for them. This was a brilliant move, but don’t confuse the reaction from the NYC village voice crowd who isn’t used to not getting things their way. We have seen this type of overreaction before, it is usually associated in insult campaigns that target women in politics who don’t fit a certain mold. Gillibrand fits the mold of most New York women, you know, because she is a mother of two who can shoot a gun and skips poetry reading on Tuesday night. To many, that just ain’t right.
Meh. Could have been worse, considering all of the players involved.
Galrahn,
I had no idea you had Upstate NY roots; I’m pretty close to the 12220 zip code myself. I think the 20th CD will be going away after the next census, so even if a Tedisco or Faso gets in it may be for only 2 years.
I do enjoy the ‘progressives’ crying about how she isn’t liberal enough.