[greydog]

Torricelli is not dead (being terminally ill, politically, does not count). He is not incapacitated (being ethically challenged does not count). He is not in jail (with his contributor David Chang, one of seven people who pleaded guilty to making illegal contributions to Torricelli). Were he any of those three there might be grounds for waiving the 51-day limit. But poll results that sadden Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle are not grounds.

Well said.

[SubMareener]

This is easy to add to all New Jersey threads. Cut out
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and paste it in you posts.

[tet68]

For 36 days in Florida in 2000, Democrats displayed ferocious contempt for any rules under which they do not win. Next month, voters everywhere should consider the New Jersey spectacle when weighing how much power Democrats deserve.

Bravo!

[justshe]

If you're mad and you know it ......PLEDGE A BUCK ! ! (or FIVE!)
If you're mad and you know it......then the '"THON" will surely show it....
If you're mad and you know it..... PLEDGE A BUCK ! ! (or FIVE!)

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[Jonathon Spectre]

Democrats said the silence of the law -- it cannot anticipate all the ploys that knaves can imagine -- about the deliberate creation of a ballot vacancy for transparent political reasons leaves them free to do anything that is not explicitly proscribed.

Also well said.

[Vinomori]

bump

[Tacis]

ANY ONE HAVE A CONTACT WITH RALPH NADER??? LET'S ASK HIM TO DECLARE TOMORROW THAT HE IS A CANDIDATE FOR TORRICELLI'S VACATED SEAT.

If the law can be disregarded for the benefit of dempcracy when the mafioso in the New Jersey democrat party think it is their best interests to do so, wouldn't be in democracy's best interests if a white knight now stepped forward? Who better than Nader? Residency? Sure, it is in the law but, hey, for democray's sake, the court would have to rule otherwise. How about Springstein? Can we get him to step forward?

Do the Republicans in New Jersey have a surrogate who will step forward who would draw votes from Lautenberg while running on a third party ticket? Is there a leftist or green maverick who, with some Republican financial backing, will step forward to showcase the democrat criminality?

[maica]

bump

[stevem]

The fundamental reason why there is no corruption the Democrats won't employ is because, up 'til now, the voters haven't held them accountable. Seriously, why should Democrats and other liberals act as though there are rules tha govern civilized behavior? Why should they not behave as though decent ethics are for others?

No one holds them accountable. No one. The majority of voters don't seem to care. Businesses and taxpayers don't care.

Until thinking Democrats (the quintissential oxymoron) hold their party accountable, this won't change. Fact is, it will get worse. The question is, are there any limits? Not yet.

[Ronin]

It was a Torricellian twist on an old joke: A child kills his parents and demands mercy because he is an orphan.

I like this one too.

[Havoc]

WAIT A flash of brilliance has overcome me. Any freepers from Jersey should immediately - and I mean NOW, call the NEW JERSEY State election commission and demand to be put on the ballot as it is not too late to enter the race and the normal rules don't apply. States generally require that a petitioner receive an adequate number of signatures to run for office in that state, when did this quack meet that requirement on entering the race?! This is your opportunity to Stir the mudstorm. Protest and demand your right to compete for the open slot on the ballot. New Jersey deserves a choice!

[witnesstothefall]

My mind keeps going back to the overseas ballots that have already been cast. Those are legal ballots. Whoever tries to uncount those votes is involved in a direct act of disenfranchisement. This I consider a both political and legal strongpoint.

Those ballots have Torch's name on them. The Dem's want to mail revised ballots. Don't ballots have to be uniform?

[Revolting cat!]

Torricelli's career of political sociopathy, of rule-bending and rule-breaking, concludes, fittingly, with a crescendo of cynical rule-inventing.

And as we are seeing, it is not only one clown's political sociopathy. It is sociopathy of the entire system, with the NJSC leading the way, stamping its approval and providing intellectual and ideological cover. The O.J. jury as a state supreme court. Lovely!

[mathurine]

If the torch wanted to face the voters, he could have and should have. Who is unforgiving? We don't know. Most Americans probably would not elect a scummy s.o.b. like him, but he's not running in America at large, he's running in New Jersey. Or he was. Now he's quit, which is not quite as good as some things he could do, but he's gone of his own accord. Not bad. Poses a problem for the demofarts, of course, because they already had a lot of ballots distributed to various funeral homes which have been signed by the deceased and returned. Fortunately, the local party workers have not filled in the names yet, since the State Law says candidates can be changed up until 51 days before the election, which anyone who has been to law school would know means a combination of the numbers one and five in any creative way which suits the people who bankroll things, Might be 51, might be 15, or if necessary, 1.5 or 0.15, or even -51 if the election did not suit the black dress boys and their handlers.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I have a question:

If citizens in Missouri have the right to vote for a dead man, why don't citizens in New Jersey have the right to vote for a dead duck?

Robert Toricelli, meet Mel Carnahan. Charmed, I'm sure.

[ladyinred]

I am stunned that such an editorial comment appeared in the Bee! This is a very liberal rag, so to read this is quite the surprise! However, I could not agree more. This DNC machine has got to be stopped!

[TheGrimReaper]

...the Democratic Party's newsletter, The New York Times...

I always wondered who the NYT's parent company was....

[SevenDaysInMay]

The N.J.S.C. broke the law. These justices did not interpret the written law, but vacated the actual words and intent of the legislative branch that passed it and the governor who signed it. Blackrobe tyranny starts with such corruption and has run amuck for 70 years in the name of liberalism.

Fascism is simply corrupt socialism, aka Democrat Party of the 21st Century. Power at ant cost. The Politburo is in control and thriving under the corrupt theory of a "living Constitution".