Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: McMahon raps Romney over the same 47% she slurred in her kickoff

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' CT-Sen: We've already got our first Republican Senate candidate in a blue state publicly deploring Mitt Romney's candid-camera video about how he actually feels about the "47%." Linda McMahon boldly went first:

"I disagree with Governor Romney's insinuation that 47% of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care. I know that the vast majority of those who rely on government are not in that situation because they want to be."

That's all fine and good because McMahon has never used that same attack on that same 47% of the population as greedy sponges, right? I mean, she wouldn't say that while actually launching her campaign in September 2011, would she...

"I'd like to see everyone pay their fair share," said McMahon. "Forty-seven percent of the people today don't pay any taxes, so let's have a fair tax code where everybody pays their taxes."

If that catches on as a story, it'd derail the previous story dominating the race, which has been McMahon's attempts to scrub YouTube of the nastier highlights of WWE sex and violence. The highlight reel resurfaced briefly on YouTube courtesy of the Connecticut Democratic Party, which had archived the stuff before the McMahon camp's scrubbing, though that too quickly got taken down as a copyright violation. The takedown, though, was probably what the state Dems wanted, since the news about the takedown seems likely to draw more attention than the video itself would have.