Randi thinks Hackett was a trade...

[Puglover]

she is THEORIZING that the Pukes went to the Dems and said get rid of Hackett and we'll keep the NSA hearings going. And of course if true the Dems got fucked again. Interesting.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x455723

[OzarkDem]

2. This is hilarious

I guess the next rumor will be that Sherrod Brown is Al Qaeda.

:rofl:

[Puglover]

4. Excuse me I believe

I put THEORIZING in caps make it clear it wasn't anything but that.

[SteppingRazor]

5. Or maybe that the entire DNC is made up of aliens...

I'll give Randi credit -- when it comes to idle speculation, she's the best :evilgrin:

[Mitt Chovick]

11. They are body doubles, the real senate democrats are kept where

they are keeping Elvis, area 51.

These Senate democrats are all body doubles and yes it is all a Rove plot.

:rofl:

[OhioBlue]

6. we haven't seemed to agree on a lot lately

but i too think this is pretty ridiculous. Trade an Ohio Senate candidate for NSA hearings???? Esp. when he was going into a contested primary and the winner ultimately against an incumbent R?

[Armstead]

3. Sometimes Randi's theorizing goes a little over the top

She's damn good when she's exposing real information she has researched.

But sometimes she has a tendency to come to conclusions that goes a little too far into unproven tin hat territory.

As f'd up as things get sometimes, I cannot imagine any circumstances in which the Democrats would scuttle what they believe is a good candidate to placate the GOP. Not can I imagine the GOP doing horse trading with the Democrats over a candidate like that.

[medeak]

9. It happened in my state

Rove had a meeting with Reid re gov race.

[Teaser]

7. evidence please

Are you sure she just wasn't cracking a joke?

[sandnsea]

8. She is pulling shit out of her ass

That is the most lame-brained thing I've ever heard.

[progdonkey]

10. that's pretty out there...

I haven't really been following the whole Hackett deal (though he is a god to me), but my impression was that the Dems think that Hacket should challenge Jean Schmidt again and go for that seat, since he has the best chance to do so than any other candidate, whereas both he and Brown would have a good chance of winning statewide.

If you have two slots to fill--one at the district level, the other statewide--and you have one person who can fill both very well (Hackett), but another who really only has a chance statewide (Brown), it makes more sense for the former to fill the slot only he can fill and leave the other slot to the latter.

I mean, if Hackett were to when the senate race, we'd have a new Dem senator, but we'd probably still have a Rep. Schmidt sitting in Congress; end result 1 new Dem Senator and 1 old Repub representative. If Brown wins the senate seat and Hackett beats Schmidt (which he almost did the first time, and will certainly be able to do the second time, now that Schmidt's idiocy has been shown to the entire country), we end up with both a new Dem senator and a new Dem representative.

I'm probably completely wrong that that's the actual case, but what I have above is certainly much more plausible than some sell-out to the GOP.