"Rookie's up-hill run is not futile," GOP says.

Source: NY Daily News

Yeah, right. Newsflash: Kathleen Troia (K.T.) McFarland, you are being thrown to the wolves.

Your people really think you can beat Hillary outright? You need to check those straw polls again.

Moderate Republican Kathleen Troia (K.T.) McFarland's still-few backers promised yesterday that the political novice seeking to challenge Sen. Hillary Clinton isn't just being thrown to the wolves.

"She is not getting into this race as a sacrificial lamb," insisted influential Erie County GOP Chairman Bob Davis, McFarland's leading supporter. McFarland, a Pentagon spokeswoman under President Ronald Reagan who has been a Park Avenue mom for the past 20 years, said she has the support to get on the primary ballot in September.

"I seek to engage other candidates for this office in substantive debate on issues of importance to New York State and the nation," she told supporters.

That sets up a GOP primary race against ex-Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, a conservative who calls McFarland a pro-choice elitist liberal. "I don't know what this woman is thinking, I really don't," he said, saying she'll divide the party and ultimately help Clinton (D-N.Y.). In her first nationally televised interview yesterday, McFarland told Chris Matthews on "Hardball" that she would never have voted with other Republicans to impeach former President Bill Clinton in 1998 if she were in the Senate then. She also said that efforts to label Hillary Clinton as an "angry woman" were "just nonsense."

I hope you enjoy a good beating. You will be the first sacrificial lamb on the way to the White House.

Some good will come out of this. Maybe a book deal or even a Lifetime Channel movie. Is an embarrassing loss worth it?