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I love the sound of a antional DNC plan crashing and burning in the morning!

What's truly a shame is that this woman, Wetterling, is (likely) being victimized a second time in her life. Over fifteen years ago someone abducted her 11 year old child at gunpoint and he has never been seen again. That made her a local celebrity and gave her name recognition. According to reliable sources she has absolutely no understanding of any issues in the current climate but the dims saw someone they could exploit, so they nominated her. The really frightening question is did they know that they were going to pull this Foley dirty trick that long ago and put her in this race solely for that purpose? After all, they had her do the Democrat response to the President's radio address this last Saturday and she promptly jumped on the most extreme MoveON.ORG talking points implying that the Republicans were consipring to protect child molestors (like the bastard who killed her son?).

If they knew they were going to do that over a year ago and recruited her with this in mind then I want to find those folks and have them publicly flogged within an inch of their lives. If she knew about it I simply want to leave her to stew in her own juices.

Actually, this is taking the conspiracy theory waaay too far. She ran in this district two years ago, and lost to Mark Kennedy 54%-46%. Kennedy had won in 2002 with 57% against a much weaker female opponent, after upsetting the incumbent David Minge when the district was redrawn in 2000. She'd originally planned to run for the Senate this year, but withdrew after polling well behind the eventual Dem nominee, Amy Klobuchar. She violated a pledge she'd made to a more conventional Dem politician, Elwyn Tinklenberg, not to run against him for the 6th District nomination. I don't think anyone in the Dem establishment wanted her to run this year, so I don't think the conspiracy angle holds up. She made herself a national authority on missing and exploited children after her son was abducted 17 years ago, (her only area of expertise,) so was sort of a natural choice for this week's response, under the circumstances.