Trib Pundit: Wilson's Done

Stick a fork in Republican Rep. Heather Wilson of Albuquerque. She's done.

Source: ABQ Trib

That is how Larry Spohn's new op-ed in the Albuquerque Tribune begins. According to Spohn, it's over. Wilson just can't win.

Spohn continues

I believe that at the end of the day, the American people - including District 1 voters in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County - will do the right thing. They will use the ultimate power of their votes to hold their politicians, including incumbent Wilson, fully accountable for the worst presidency in American history.

Wilson has enabled that presidency. The American people are paying a horrific price for Wilson and a Republican Congress that have failed miserably in their Constitutional duty to all the people - to check and balance raw presidential power and stand up to a secretive, dishonest president who chooses routinely, I'd say, to break the law.

Despite Wilson's early efforts to smear Madrid with the state treasurer scandal in Santa Fe, it's going to be all about her Washington, D.C., sellout to big businesses, such as the oil and drug industries. And about her complicity in an administration that has waged a horrific, unjust war; turned its back on middle America; run up the national debt with abandon; compromised our economy and our environment; and used fear, deception, distortion and paper patriotism to govern.

Nah - I'm not a Bush hater. I am a Lincoln lover. A native of Illinois who regularly made pilgrimages to New Salem and to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln - a Republican, you know - I came to value the wisdom of our greatest president, "Honest Abe."

Source: ABQ Trib

I'm not quite willing to go so far as to say that the race is over (for Madrid or Wilson). I am still sure that this will be a 51-49 race and will be a toss up until election night.

But Wilson's record -- which she is running away from instead of running behind -- is clearly an anchor around her political neck, dragging her down into the water.

This is why Wilson and her supporters are afraid to talk about that record -- instead, they would rather talk about local issues. Funny, the incumbent politician running on local issues instead of what she has done in Washington. What is Wilson trying to hide?

Heather Wilson Patricia Madrid NM-01