Wednesday Open Thread [7.17.13]

Wednesday Open Thread [7.17.13]

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"Nobody in Wyoming likes a long campaign, and anybody from Wyoming would know that." -- Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), quoted by the Washington Examiner, taking a dig at primary rival Liz Cheney (R) who announced her bid yesterday. I am not going to attack Liz Cheney for being a carpetbagger, because Hillary Clinton was a carpetbagger and thus I would be a hypocrite. In my opinion, if a state's residency laws allow someone not currently living in the state to run, then that is the state's law. But New York is a different place than Wyoming. Many New Yorkers wanted Hillary to run, and she won in a landslide, twice. It doesn't sound like the Republican establishment in the state wants Cheney to run, and are quite offended about it, actually. It remains to be seen if the Republican primary voter will warm to someone like Liz Cheney. A reader at TPM makes a great point ....
ABC Is Wrong To Hire Jenny McCarthy For The View

ABC Is Wrong To Hire Jenny McCarthy For The View

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I would really like to know ABC's thinking on this.  First, the only subject that Jenny McCarthy seems to have had an opinion on is vaccines cause autism.  I've actually spent the last half hour googling her to discover if her activism crosses into areas other than autism and came up empty handed.  So why would ABC select one issue McCarthy to co-host a show that covers a multitude of issues? And there's concern over giving Jenny McCarthy such a large platform.