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Cynthia: the Sequel? (The McKinney story from a Dems' view?)
The Green[e]house Effect ^ | 8.28.02 | Greg Greene

Posted on 08/28/2002 7:39:34 AM PDT by mhking

I have no intention of turning this into a single-issue blog. But . . .

Some careful observers found an odd note over the weekend on Cynthia McKinney's campaign site. It read:

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is going through all the letters and e-mails asking her to continue the struggle, to run again, to run for the US Senate. Shortly, there will be an announcement on this button -- more to come.
That cryptic message sparked plenty of talk come yesterday, as you might expect, about the smackdown Zell Miller would put on her -- with relish -- if she tried. But if you read the note again, you might notice something.

She didn't say anything about skipping the Senate race in 2002.

Georgia Democrats were counting on Cynthia -- why, I don't know -- to boost black turnout come the general election in November, when Sen. Max Cleland (D) leads the ballot. Well, now she's toast, and when she needed help this summer, most state Democrats were too busy raising money or making tee times to bother.

So Cynthia's an angry woman. [Not that she wasn't plenty angry already.] And she has two assets to her name: time on her hands, and an ego to feed.

With a write-in campaign, she could make use of both -- and torpedo Democrats' chances of holding the Senate in the process.

The GOP already has Cleland in its sights as one of the senators it wants to take down. The Bush administration handpicked a candidate, Rep. Saxby Chambliss, and festooned him with cash and endorsements before the primary campaign even started. [Bushes, brushing off the will of the voters -- gosh, never heard that one before.] Cleland's approval ratings beat 60 percent, but pundits expect the Republicans to wallpaper the state with radio and TV ads to get their man into office.

Suppose Cynthia, heartened by those calls and e-mails she mentioned, decides to take to V103 one September morning and jump into the race. Who does she hurt? Well, Republicans deserted their own primary last week for the chance to toss McKinney out on her ear. Don't expect a sudden groundswell of love there.

Cleland, on the other hand, thought he needed all those McKinney voters come November to help him out. What if some of those McKinney voters -- 20 percent, maybe -- show up to vote for her?

Then those votes come directly out of Cleland's hide, that's what. In a close race -- and putting Cleland's popularity and heroic personal history aside, most everyone expects a close race -- those votes will count.

McKinney won about 50,000 votes last week. A one-fifth swing to McKinney in the general election would cost Cleland 10,000 votes -- and that only covers votes in McKinney's former district. We haven't even gotten to the 4 million other residents of the Atlanta media market.

In 1996, Cleland won by only 30,000 votes.

Making matters worse, Georgia's Democrat-controlled state government eliminated runoffs for statewide general election candidates after Sen. Wyche Fowler (D) lost his seat in late 1992. If Cleland falls even a whisker behind Chambliss, it won't matter whether Chambliss hasn't edged his share of the vote above 50 percent. He'll win anyway.

Considering that McKinney promised in her concession speech that "[she] will not help the Republicans," the irony here is so thick you could chew it. Running a kamikaze campaign against Cleland would help Republicans get the one thing they most dearly want: control of the Congress. Yet McKinney is so blunderingly self-absorbed that she just might plow ahead anyway.

For the sake of the party, she'd best not do that. Cynthia, from one Democrat to another: sit down and shut up.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: electionstealing; mckinney
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To: SauronOfMordor
Cynthia won't run. She knows what would happen to her if she cost the Dims control of the Senate.

Arkancide?

41 posted on 08/29/2002 1:27:43 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: dead
The word "coincidentally" is crumbling into dust from lack of use....
42 posted on 08/31/2002 9:19:11 AM PDT by stands2reason
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To: mhking; All
A united district canned McKinney

43 posted on 08/31/2002 9:22:14 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: MacDorcha
ever notice that there are NO pictures of her with her mouth closed?

Yeah, you're right....

BTW, Welcome to Free Republic! :-)

44 posted on 08/31/2002 9:27:00 AM PDT by stands2reason
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To: dead
>> Doesn?t anybody know the correct definition of ?irony? any more?

It does not mean ?everything that is interesting or odd.?

Curse you, Alanis Morrisette!

One comedian (I can't recall his name) assessed Morrisette's song "Ironic" this way...

Morrisette sings "It's like rain on your wedding day" and about how you wait your whole life to fly and the day you do, the plane crashes...This isn't irony...It's BAD LUCK. I think the only thing ironic is that she sings a song called Ironic and she doesn't know what irony is.

45 posted on 08/31/2002 9:42:23 AM PDT by Wondervixen
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To: dead
This does fit the 3rd definition of irony according to Webster's Online Collegiate Dictionary.

To wit:
incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony.

In cynthia's case, I posit that, it is ignorant, dramatic and tragic irony. Should Chambliss win because of it, that would be sweet irony....priceless in fact.

46 posted on 08/31/2002 10:21:55 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
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To: dead
This does fit the 3rd definition of irony according to Webster's Online Collegiate Dictionary.

To wit:
incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony.

In cynthia's case, I posit that, it is ignorant, dramatic and tragic irony. Should Chambliss win because of it, that would be sweet irony....priceless in fact.

Grrr. Tag closed. Sorry for the mess.

47 posted on 08/31/2002 10:23:37 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
I guess it comes down to what you believe to be Cynthia's motivation. If she does run, she will do it for spite, with full knowledge that it will hurt the Dems. There is no irony in that but it will be sweet to watch.
48 posted on 08/31/2002 12:06:24 PM PDT by dead
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To: mhking

Cynthia, from one Democrat to another: sit down and shut up.
= = = =

He's obviously talking about a wild haired, grandiose, science fiction, dream-the-impossible-dream, red sea parting miracle FANTASY! LOL.

Even when she's had her considerable rear end aligned and plunked on a chair, she was STILL STANDING UP SCREAMING inside . . . and when possible, outside.

I'm not sure the creature has sat down and shut up truly since she started wailing at birth.

She comes across to me as a gentetic, chronic and addicted standup-screamer-to-the-max and begins to suffer oxygen deprevation if she feels restricted on such actions.


49 posted on 08/02/2006 4:11:40 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: LiteKeeper

WRITE-IN MCKINNEY, WRITE-IN MCKINNEY
= = = =

Of course, written in the required neon orange and fushia.


50 posted on 08/02/2006 4:13:39 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: steve-b

Democrats and Greens vote on Wednesday.
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But before voting, a new law requires the DIMRATS and Greens to go by each grave site of the name they are voting under and place a purple thumb print on the tombstone. If there are too many thumbprints on a given tombstone, a nearby tree will do.


51 posted on 08/02/2006 4:15:44 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: stands2reason

ever notice that there are NO pictures of her with her mouth closed?
= = = =

Well of course not. Sometimes photoshopped and science fiction Hollyweed photos are not allowed.

I mean, some things just must be in the realm of possibility, first. And some gaping caverns are just too large and/or flappnig to fast and constantly to ever risk closing.

At least her dentist must be happy . . . except for her cat-sharp teeth.


52 posted on 08/02/2006 4:19:55 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is going through all the letters and e-mails asking her to continue the struggle, to run again, to run for the US Senate. Shortly, there will be an announcement on this button -- more to come.

Translation: she knows she will lose the runoff, and needs to secure another meal ticket for the next two years.

A word of advice, Cynthia: Monster.com...

53 posted on 08/03/2006 7:41:04 AM PDT by mhking ("Lotion -- apply directly to your skin; Lotion -- apply directly to your skin...")
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