Good friend of the blog Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is profiled in the Daily Beast. The GOP's chief deputy whip in the House of Representives is in charge of recruitment for this year's elections. Political sage Charlie Cook is impressed with him, as are many others."Don't blame me for picking the right timing to be in charge of candidate recruitment," McCarthy quips. He chuckles when I repeat another of Cook's pronouncements: "Kevin is going to come out of this a rock star."
"Oooh!" McCarthy exclaims. "I love that guy!"
Expectations are ridiculously high.
During a triumphal conference call this week between Capitol Hill reporters and members of the National Republican Congressional Committee, McCarthy did nothing to tamp them down. Instead, he sang the praises of his "fresh-faced" recruits—a homespun Southern patriot here ("Stephen Fincher told me, 'Listen, Mister Kevin, I'm just a farmer from Frog Jump, Tennessee!'"), and a dashing Midwestern war hero there. Of the latter, Adam Kinzinger—who apparently is poised to topple freshman Democrat Debbie Halvorson in Illinois' 11th Congressional District—McCarthy gushed: "He goes over and serves his country, he comes back, he's flying on reserves up in Milwaukee, he looks across the street, some guy's beating up his girlfriend, literally stabbing her, he runs across the street, directly into action, takes the guy down, helps the girl, she ends up with 100 stitches, he becomes Volunteer of the Year. That," he concludes, "is a fresh face.
It is. Halvorson is not a fresh face, she's a former state Senate Majority Leader in Springfield. While Kinzinger was serving in Iraq, Halvorson was the head waiter for Rod Blagojevich.
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