Posted on 03/15/2006 2:32:48 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Yeah, Bob Dole. There'd have been no Clinton 2nd term if you'd had the decency not to pull rank and run a suicide campaign in '96.
Dole felt he soooo deserved the nomination and he took us all down the drain with him. I actuall groaned out loud when I heard he had the nomination.
I could never understand why the GOP endorsed Dole in '96. It gave Slick Willy a second term on a silver platter!
I never understood her original court order. You always coach the witnesses before they testify.
The judge may be inadvertantly doing some good by exposing how bad the judicial system is for trying these guys.
And in most trials, previous testimony is known, as it is usually public.
Regardless of whether her order was unusual, the fact is that it was her order. The TSA lawyer should have known better.
We'd all be screaming bloody murder if it was a defense lawyer who coached the witnesses in violation of the judge's orders. We'd all be demanding that the "tainted" testimony be thrown out. Hell, I'd be at the front of the line.
It was his turn, dammit.
My friends who worked in the GOP used to say Clinton was a great politician. I think they were in denial. Clinton was ripe to get beat, but the party rammed through a doddering old fool who could only appeal to GOP fanatics. Only reason I voted for him was Kemp.
Every step of the Monica thing, I'd say "Thank you, Bob Dole!"
The problems in that trial are due to the inept prosecution, not the judge.
I don't buy it. A judge is not god. Forcing the government to call witnesses it has not talked to is absurd. It would be just as absurd if she had done this to the defense.
The "Kemp" bit I thought was a great idea, but "Dole"....
I haven't followed this, but I've never thought the death penalty in espionage cases (this sort of is one)was practical. You don't know what secrets this guy might be holding.
I agree that a judge isn't God. Judges certainly make mistakes.
However, if the prosecution really had a problem with her order, they should have made a motion to change her ruling. If the judge wouldn't change her order, they could have moved for a mistrial on the grounds that they were not allowed to properly prepare. They could have taken it to the press -- don't you think talk radio would've loved that angle? They did none of those things. Instead, the prosecution chose to try for forgiveness rather than permission, and they got caught. Now they're paying for it.
Did you get physically ill during the Kemp / Gore debate? How could a guy won won pro football titles choke like that?
I must say I don't remember it. Isn't the human mind a wonderful thing?
Nobody cares what this senile old tax collector for the welfare state has to say.
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