Is this the gift Democrats have been waiting for?
Republican U.S. Linda McMahon's statements this morning in East Hartford on the minimum wage are drawing sharp rebukes from many quarters.
McMahon was there to pick up the endorsement of a buisness group and when asked whether she shares the group's views about the minimum wage, McMahon equivocated. She said any potential increases ought to be reviewed and the government ought to consider "how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage."
(No, she did not call for eliminating it or even propose that Congress lower it, but in this economic climate, her statements could certainly come back to bite her. So much for that battered lunchbox.) It was a rare misstep for a candidate who is almost always on message and some Democrats and union folks have pounced.
Not, incidentially, Democrat Richard Blumenthal. Just two days after some Democrats publicly urged him to be more aggressive, his campaign had yet to issue an offical comment on McMahon's statements hours after she made them -- though his 1,526 Twitter follows did see the following tweet: "More McMahon's profits before people''