Posted on 10/01/2010 12:02:36 PM PDT by duckln
Jim Traficant, Ohio 17, lays out his case for re election.
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An enemy of my enemy is my friend. Traficant is the only congressman to ever vote, imo, for the opposing parties' member to be speaker of the house.
If he were elected as an independent he would vote with the conservatives.
The way to beat Ryan is get Democrat votes. I understand he usually wins by 65%. If Traficant can get half of those, Graham has a chance.
Ok, what's his poll numbers?
Trafi'can't??? Nimrod??? That's right out of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, 'ridicule' your opponent. I'm not impressed.
I didn't leave Ohio. Ohio left me when they elected Metzenbaum and Glenn. Voinovich was/is a disaster.
Traficant was convicted as the Count of Monte Cristo was
convicted.
Sounds like your average Obama appointee.
” I didn’t leave Ohio. Ohio left me when they elected Metzenbaum and Glenn. Voinovich was/is a disaster.”
Man, you really got handed the screw job.
Trafficant is just an old lefty that is colorful enough to fool naive people.
Do you know that in 1998, after all those years in Congress, that his LIFETIME ACU rating was 27%.
The guy is just a corrupt, bribe taking politician that used to help run the drugs and hookers for the Mob when he was County Sheriff. Being sociopathically colorful and unrepentant does not make him a conservative.
His IRS problems were because he refused to pay the taxes on his known bribes.
Oh, sorry, I meant ex-convict. Still, if we`re to cite Alinsky-ist rules, then why are you steadfastly refusing to answer my questions? Would you vote for an ex-con former rat, over a Constitutionalist Conservative? Your boy has a track record, a criminal one at that, fact not opinion, sir.Rationalize that one all you want, but, is he (your guy) a Constitutionalist Conservative? Yes or No? MINE IS! So who would you support? The ex-con or the Conservative? Basic questions deserve simple answers, or is that not sufficiently convoluted for you?
A sitting president who is a member of the bar, obstructs justice in a trial in which he is the defendant, encourages others to obstruct justice, and this is just a tabloid issue? Are you serious?
That's how they nailed Al Capone when in fact he was a killer. But Jim never killed anyone.
That's how they nailed Agnew (by planting an envelope of money in his office) when in fact the reason was that he was a Republican. Same with Traficant, except because he was a DINO, and kept bashing the elites as we're doing now.
Well, first I’ll have to listen to the debates. Then I’ll make my choice. And if Graham is another Castle or Murkowski, I’ll cross the line.
You really are a gullible idiot, no level of criminality will keep you from worshiping this liberal democrat.
“In 2002, Traficant was indicted on federal corruption charges for taking campaign funds for personal use. On April 15, he was convicted of 10 felony counts including bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion.”
Bull, both Castle and Murkowski are far to the right of Jim Trafficant.
You just don't have a clue.
All the charges were 'chum' change, 'peanuts' and what galls me the most is that it included charges of when he was sheriff ~16yrs before. And the ~10yr prison term was outrageous. Justice run amoke.
As far as I know, Traficant never accumulated the millions that the average congressman does. He's flat broke.
Same thing that Cristine O'Donnell is accused of ?
You are helplessly under the spell of this liberal democrat, I guess it reflects your politics.
If I remember right Traficant was questioning Democrat ties to Chinese money and missile technology. I would not doubt now that Republicans have been taking tons of money also.
How do you explain his 27 lifetime ACU rating the liberal democrat Trafficant had in 1998, lower than Castle or Olympia Snow, or all the other liberals everyone hates?
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