Which Senator would you least like to fight?

[asdjrocky]

I'm watching Washington Journal now and I have to say, I'm pretty sure Senator Leahy could give me an old fashioned beat down. Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy that can take care of himself and the good Senator has more than a few years on me, but that guy has granite in his eyes.

I think I could take just about all of them, especially the repugs, but I'm pretty sure Leahy would kick my ass.

Oh yeah, Jim Webb might toss me as well.

What about you?

[AngryAmish]

1. Feinstein - she's a biter.

[asdjrocky]

3. Lol, yeah, and a hair puller.

[Captain Hilts]

4. And has a crack staff. Her performance at the firing of the state attorneys was amazing. nt

[asdjrocky]

10. Let's not forget how tough she was in Mu-what'shisnames corner.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Leahy or Feinstein. nt

[TexasObserver]

5. Pat Leahy couldn't beat anyone in a fight.

He'd run and hide.

When I think of the senate, I don't think of fighting skills.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Tell that to Dick Cheney. nt

[TexasObserver]

8. Dick Cheney is an old, out of shape, 5'6 coward.

If Leahy can't kick Cheney's sorry old ass, he might as check into a home.

[tularetom]

7. Leahy wouldn't fight you

But he might send you a strongly worded letter.

[asdjrocky]

9. No, I'm pretty sure Leahy would throw if he had to.

I've seen the look.

(Also, people, this was kind of meant as a joke, and not meant as a way of attacking Senator Leahy. Why do we insist on being so seris about everything?)

[KittyWampus]

11. Kerry is in good shape and he's been in combat.

[asdjrocky]

12. Yeah, Kerry would be a tough fight too.

He's tall and he's got reach.

[pnwmom]

13. I assumed you meant verbal fight. Al Franken I wouldn't want to tangle with. n/t

[asdjrocky]

16. I didn't even think of Franken!

Didn't he wrestle at Harvard? Yeah, Franken could probably take me if he got in close.

[guitar man]

27. Yep, Franken is the one that would kick the most ass

I remember a story about him tackling a heckler at a Dean rally :D

[mkultra]

14. Sen. Freddy Rigby (D-NE)

[Enrique]

15. Susan Collins

she's a black belt. :scared:

[JohnnyBoots]

17. Tester, he's a big guy with 'Farm Strength'

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. Franken might be trouble if he gets you down on the mat.

[karynnj]

19. It is a bit weird that you are even speaking of physically fighting with any Senator - The more

reasonable question is who would you least like to battle in a debate or verbal fight. That is what they do and where their strengths and weaknesses are known.

In answer to that, I think the answer is obvious. There is no one who would be hard to beat than John Kerry, with his combination of knowledge, eloquence and amazing ability to stay focused rather than to explode in anger.

[dysfunctional press]

20. ted kennedy.

i'd probably feel pretty bad working him over in his current condition.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. Jim Webb boxes Ollie North....

http://genehealy.com/2006/06/

Daddy Party

Now that Jim Webb has won the Democratic nomination for VA Senate, I expect Harvey Mansfield, Rich Lowry, and everybody else in the jock-sniffing Republican Cult of Masculinity to endorse him. I mean, he’s no wrestling coach, but Webb’s plenty tough nonetheless.

'' Jim Webb was a platoon leader, a rifle platoon commander and he was also a company commander. He won the Navy Cross, which is the nation’s second highest award for battlefield gallantry after the Congressional Medal of Honor. The Marine Corps very rarely awards the Congressional Medal of Honor to anybody that survives the experience. He won two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, several Purple Hearts. Webb is one of the toughest people I’ve ever met and remains so to this day. ''

That’s from a Booknotes interview with Robert Timberg, author of Nightingale’s Song, which tells the story of five Annapolis grads who went to Vietnam: Webb, Ollie North, Bud McFarland, John Poindexter, and John McCain.

Of course, Republicans-for-the-Strenuous-Life may be withholding their endorsement because Webb dropped the Annapolis boxing championship to Ollie North:

TIMBERG: The boxing story — Jim Webb and Ollie North, same class — Class of 1968 — never really liked one another. It was like they were oil and water. At any rate, North had been in a terrible car accident in his plebe year and it was questionable whether he could ever return to the academy. By an enormous force of will and rehabilitation, he managed to come back and he was in Jim Webb’s class. Both of them were boxers, but Webb had been boxing for years, almost from the time he was 12, 13. And he was very, very good. North was what somebody called a good Saturday night boxer. I mean, he just seemed to rise to the occasion. Webb, on the other hand, knew he could — under ordinary circumstances — could just take North apart. But Ollie had knee braces from his car accident.

People went up to Webb and said, “Hey, Jimmy, you hit Ollie too hard, you might kill him.” And Webb knew this was baloney. How — I mean, no one was going to let somebody in the ring with a steel plate in his head, which is one of the things he had heard. But somehow Webb got himself psyched out in this and when you box — particularly when you box at the academy, because no one is a great stylist, you’ve got to go in there and you’ve got to meet — you’ve got to fight to win, you’ve got to have — you’ve got to be psychologically attuned to taking your classmate’s head off, if you will. And Webb wasn’t. I mean, he went in there, he was tentative, he was very stylish. He ducked, he moved and North looked kind of sloppy. But North landed some punches and this fight ended up with Ollie North beating Jim Webb in a fight that everybody else felt Jim Webb was going to win hands-down.

[asdjrocky]

22. What a story, had no idea.

That was a good find.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. that book is very well worth reading, along with Ben Bradlee Jr.'s bio of North, which

is where I read it first, I think. it was awhile ago

the best part of that book, and there were lots of them (plenty of similarities between North and GG Liddy), is where Ollie went crazy, ran around naked, brandishing a .45 auto, was hospitalized, had his medical records expunged, (no more combat duty after that), and rode a desk into infamy

Liddy's autobio is Will--a fascinating revelation and a real page-turner

Bradlee's book isn't as dramatic, but it's chock full of interesting stuff on North, and does a halfway decent job of dealing with his treasonous actions during Iran/Contra, but Robert Parry does a much better job of that (he was the first person to catch onto North; the first one to interview him, and lost his job--Newsweek, was it?--for refusing to back off)

[Recursion]

26. I wonder if North was part of Clancy's model for Jack Ryan?

At any rate, North had been in a terrible car accident in his plebe year and it was questionable whether he could ever return to the academy. By an enormous force of will and rehabilitation, he managed to come back and he was in Jim Webb’s class.

That sounds a lot like Jack Ryan's backstory.

[Recursion]

23. Pryor, Tester, Webb, or Kerry

I think any one of them could give a beat-down.

[stevedeshazer]

25. Tester is a farmer. Farm boys are tough.

Al Franken was a pretty good wrestler in high school.

Jim Webb scares the hell out of me.