A Guide to the Neocon Bloomberg May Back for Senate (Dan Senor)

[Purveyor]

With support from several GOP luminaries, Dan Senor, husband of CNN's Campbell Brown and delusional neocon hawk, may be primed to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for her seat. Here's a field guide to your potential next Senator.

According to a report in the Times on Friday: "Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey, Mr. Bloomberg's top political adviser, met with Mr. Senor at Gracie Mansion a few weeks ago to discuss his potential candidacy, according to people told of the meeting." Sounds promising, Dan!

Talking Points Memo isn't so sure Senor will get the GOP support he'll need to secure the nomination, but with early backing from Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani and Senator Lindsey Graham, he is expected to announce a decision soon.

In Iraq, Senor was the head of Stratcomm, the propaganda arm of the Coalition Provisional Authority. He was also the ying to CPA viceroy L. Paul Bremer's yang, and despised by most Iraqis. A quote from Senor's time as CPA spokesman in April 2004, while the US was fighting Sunni and Shia insurgents on two fronts, sums up his grip on reality:

"I can tell you that the majority of this country, the majority of the population, is returning to normalcy…"

Senor defended the first invasion of Fallujah on behalf of four Blackwater mercenaries who were killed and mutilated after entering the city on questionable grounds. And he was a main proponent of the disbanding of the Iraqi Army - a decision that ultimately led to a long, bloody insurgency. On the eve of civil war in Iraq, in 2005, he defended this policy in a Times op-ed.

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Can't these assholes just go away? There's so much money to be made out there. Go do that. nt

[Hippo_Tron]

2. I wonder if he knows that "return to normalcy" was a phrase coined by Warren G Harding in 1920

Harding, like George W Bush, was an intellectual lightweight and tended to make up words.

[vaberella]

3. I support only Gillibrand. n/t

[Supersedeas]

4. the RW Chickenhawk Senator brought to you by CNN Anchor Campbell Brown