The Hackett Brigade?Joshua Zeitz
sees promise in what Airhead America Calls "Fighting Dems"; Democrats running for office in 2006 who have served in Iraq. We might call them the Paul Hackett brigade.
I can't tell you how happy I am to see this development. These Democrat veterans are not going to win, but they will get a lot of attention and money, drawing it away from other candidates who might have a chance.
Proof? Well, Zeitz focuses on Bryan Lentz, who will be running next year against Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania. What are his chances of knocking off Weldon? Not very good. Weldon won reelection in 2004 by about 19 percentage points, a fairly comfortable margin.
While we're on the subject of next year's election, our buddy Chris at
Lucky Dawg News is starting Blogs for Heather. Heather Wilson is the incumbent Republican representing District 1 in New Mexico. She holds one of the seats that smart Democrats (i.e., not Kos and Zeitz) will definitely be targeting next year. She won reelection last year by only eight percentage points, making her one of the more vulnerable Republican incumbents. She represents the central area of New Mexico, including the state capital of Santa Fe and the largest city, Albuquerque.
Heather's a solid Republican, a former Rhodes Scholar, and a graduate of the US Air Force Academy. She deserves our support and I'm happy to endorse her here at Brainster's. Those of you who remember the glorious days at Kerry Haters will recall that we only endorsed one other candidate than President Bush: John Thune, who kayoed Tom Daschle. So I've got my perfect record on the line here!
She'll be running against Patricia Madrid. In case you need additional incentive to support Heather, Madrid was
widely rumored to be John Kerry's pick for Attorney General had he won the presidency last year.
