Traficant arrives at federal prison (Will Run For Congress From Jail)

"Nope! I prefer Traficant! He will be an independent but he will vote with the Republicans for majority leader."

Traficant has always also had a good fiscal conservative voting record on tax cuts and reduced government spending issues. Many Republicans have voted for him in the past because of these issues alone. And his dislike of Gepfart is well known, he should because Gepfart tried to bust him in the 2000 primary but failed miserably.

Go figure nothing. That is pure BS. Gee, I was going to delay a vote to stone you to death but seeing as how everyone has voted to decide today, well, let me toss in this boulder and konk you on the head. Please spare me this nonsense.

I note from your post that you seem unable to understand subtle insinuation. Let me get you the Cliff Notes on this:

Make no mistake, the Republicans wanted him out of office, every last one of them. Just exactly as the final vote showed.

Well OF COURSE they did. And it was a done deal before they even had the hearing, everybody in the room including Trafficant knew that. I have every confidence that many of the Republicans were more interested in letting a Democrat squirm on the hook in public than in being altruistic towards Trafficant.

The Democraps just wanted him dead, buried and forgotten before the elections, because he was such an embarrassment to them. Maybe you didn't see both votes, or maybe you just didn't catch the subtle nuance in the Democrats' haste to get him shuffled off to the Gulag and out of sight.

Personally, I always find great amusement in watching the Democrats eat their own children like this. I just wish they had shown Clinton the same sort of treatment.

I really don't think your original comments are any more valid than what you write above. Basically, what you are saying is you have not been paying attention but you get on here and rail against Traficant.

I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't railing against Trafficant, just admitting that I haven't paid much attention to his case and had nothing more than the verdict to go by. You obviously think he was railroaded, and you may very well be right.

I actually have no particular ax to grind regarding Trafficant, and the fact is I admired many of the positions he took, as in the case of the IRS, as you mentioned.

I'm from Ohio, so I do have a passing interest in this, but I'm not one of his constituents, so my opinion doesn't matter in the long run anyway, but I still have a right to an opinion.

If you are in his district, I presume you will vote for him. If he is not on the ballot and you have to do it as a write-in, be sure to put his prison ID number next to his name.

Me, myself, I vote against the Democrats every chance I get, so he wouldn't be getting my vote anyway.

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