19 thoughts on “WY-Sen: GOP Picks Its Final Three”

  1. Was Lummis the one who told everyone that Freudenthal threatened to decapitate or eat her, or some such craziness?  I think that he should pick her and then announce…could make for some awesome yard signs and slogans.

  2. isn’t on that list.  If I’m not mistaken, he said that if he wasn’t chosen he’d challenge Cubin in the primary next year.  I don’t doubt for a minute that that didn’t go into the GOP’s calculations.  As such, Gary Trauner could either be facing a Cubin damaged by a primary or the son of a former senator fresh off of a primary victory.  Personally I hope we get a damaged Cubin…but we’ll see how that goes.

  3. I don’t know how that would fly with Wyomingers (Wyomingians? Wyomingites?), but that’s a big ol’ red flag in my book.

  4. Cause I’ve got piles.

    It is a bit disheartening, however, that someone who held such a high position in our government (Assistant Attorney General at the DoJ) and had clear ties to Abramoff, is yet such an unknown to much of the partisan Left.  Environmentalists know all about Sansonetti, as do us Indians; he was one of the Administration’s most dangerous men to our issues.  But this is the man who hired, as Interior Transition Team head, most of the corrupt cronies who ran the department with oversight for all natural resources and energy reserves on federal and Indian lands, and off-shore as well.  Gale Norton?  Steve Griles?  MMS Director Johnnies Burton?  Julie MacDonald?  Lay the blame at Sansonetti’s feet. Then he went on to head the department which was supposed to provide legal oversight to Interior – boy, that worked out well.

    BTW, Barrasso is a born-again uber-conservative who thinks abortion should be criminalized and prayer in school mandatory, and Lummis is a perky former beauty-queen and Wise-Use Gale-Norton wannabe who thinks Al Qaeda hangs out in Iran. I know this because, despite being from Maine, I never take square, underpopulated, Red states 2000 miles away for granted, particularly when the ranking member of Senate Indians Affairs dies and whoever fills the seat will probably end up on that committee.  No, traditionally Wyoming is not a “swing-state” – but if Sansonetti is appointed, it could be (as least for that seat.)

  5. Mike Mead, who resigned and then applied for Senator, didn’t make the cut.  I guess he feels dumb now.

  6. There are, obviously more than two Democrats in Wyoming (there’s really somewhere between five and seven, lol).  Seriously, who are possible candidates to run for the Senate seat besides Trauner, who looks to take on Cubin, and Frudenthal, who just ain’t going to do it.

  7. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but Cubin has claimed that the penis-shaped cookies were left on her desk – obviously intended as a sign from a colleague that she wasn’t welcome in their boys’ club – and her handing them out to the other legislators was simply her response to it. 

    Lest I sound like an apologist for her, let me assure you that in a way, I think that’s worse.  It means she suffered sexual harassment firsthand, yet still thinks nothing of throwing around the term “feminazi”.  (That, by the way, is another of her greatest hits: during her first term – 1995, surprise surprise – she was the leader of a group of female GOP reps who presented Rush Limbaugh with some sort of award.  When she handed it to him, she said, “There’s not a feminazi among us.”)

    I’ve always wished Mel Watt had cooled his heels for just a few seconds longer, so that she could have completed her racist rant.  I don’t know what she was planning to say next, but I’ll bet it was a doozy.  (I do know what she has since claimed she was going to say next – “or does it mean my blond and blue eyed sons can’t buy a gun because they look like the Columbine kids” – but I’ve always suspected some staffer cooked that one up after the fact to make it sound like she was really making an anti-racist statement.)

  8. seems to have a higher tolerance for crazy.  Cubin, idaho rep Sali, former sen conrad burns  >< -MT.
      O

  9. Freudenthal had run-ins with both of the other finalists, so this may have been the least of three evils for him.

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