Posted on 10/25/2002 1:53:49 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, one of the last unapologetic liberals left in Congress and known among his friends as a ``pied piper of modern politics,'' died Friday in a Minnesota plane crash. He was 58.
Wellstone's wife, Sheila Ison Wellstone, and daughter Marcia also died in the crash. Three campaign staff members and two pilots also perished.
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GOOD!! Fact is, the RATS are reknowned fer killing off folks via plane crashes and I'm not gonna be the least bit surprised to find out that Wellstone and his staff were given the Ron Brown treatment...yes, DoltsUnlimited, I'm talkin' at you, Wellstone may have been assassinated and if he was, it was by his own RAT Party!!
Sincerely...MUD
Hear hear, my FRiend!!
"Furthermore, with "more people like this," especially on his "side," the Republic's demise and total breakdown would be just around the corner."
NOT!!! Fact is, Wellstone was an unabashed SOCIALIST TWIT in many, many ways...yeah, he sincerely believed that a Soviet-style America would be preferable, but he and all those RATS who think like him are DEAD WRONG!!
Sorry to see Paul die 'cuz I'm very sure he'd have met with his political demise on 5 November anyway, but anybody who pretends Wellstone was anything but a nasty boil on the American political scene is a brain-dead DOLT!!
FReegards...MUD
But I disagree that he did the honorable thing. I think standing up for the Constitution (not himself) would have been the honorable thing. Sure, the criminal Dems would have accused him of sour grapes, etc., but that's the small price to pay for being a true patriot, and sacrificing popularity for putting up a fight that is yours to put up.
I'm with you...it's sad for his family, but Wellstone epitomozed everything I stand against, he was for abortion, for partial birth abortion, for Gay rights and gay marriage, favored hate crimes legislation, for affirmative action, for raising taxes, against school choice...and on and on and on. He was a dyed in the wool socialist, the kind of guy who would take every dime he could steal from me to give to the bums and layabouts that refuse honest labor.
The news is that Coleman has suspended his campaign. That's utterly stupid and defeatist. Ashcroft did the same thing and now we're trying to unseat the black widow from what should have been a safe GOP seat. Just because your opponent is no longer in the race is NO reason to stop telling people why the should vote for you. Sheesh!
Just make sure someone's got their eye out fer RATS bussin' in students from outta State to be Minnesotans fer a day!!
"Laws that will have the D-Rats losing this senate seat."
I think yer Right, my FRiend...fact is, the RAT Elite most likely had a hand in Wellstone's death and if the good folks of Minnesota are so gullible as to reward the same EffeteScumbags with control of the Senate over that, God Save the Queen!!
LOL...MUD
Wellstone, bless his li'l commie heart, was a devotee of Bureaucracy, Unaccountability, and Ineffectiveness...hence his alleged popularity with the Leftists Drones who LOATHE the FReedom, Self-Reliance, and Self-Motivation that Capitalism creates!! Sorry he died, but glad he'll no longer stain the American BodyPolitic!!
Are there any Lefties out there who'd like to take exception to my take here?!
I'm waitin' and willin' to rassle...MUD
Most lost battles are lost by way of a lack of preparation, a lack of effort...or a loss of faith. Defeatist rhetoric galls me; the words "Never Surrender" are written into the DNA of my soul. I say, the New Republican Empire (control of Senate, House, and Presidency) begins in 2003!
Who's with me???
Yes, yes, and yes.
Good riddance to him then.
Pity if any of the others killed were right-minded. If there were any such present they paid a high price for travelling in the company of riff-raff.
LOL!
Do they travel at all?
For each one of our rulers who rambles hither and yon a score of them remain holed up in their mansions.
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