[TBP]

Like everyone, my prayers go out to Sen. Wellstone's family, friends, and staff. This is a great loss for them, and that transcends politics.

I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides.

[holyscroller]

"I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides."

I'd be happy to see even a FEW on our side. Seems like all of ours are gutless wonders.

[holyscroller]

"I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides."

I'd be happy to see even a FEW on our side. Seems like all of ours are gutless wonders.

[Lizavetta]

but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them

So did Hitler and a host of other rotten characters in history. I don't consider this a necessarily good thing. He was a socialist Marxist and I'm glad there's one less with his viewpoint in Congress, but I'm not glad the guy is dead. I can't imagine how devastated his family and friends must be.

[Lizavetta]

but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them

So did Hitler and a host of other rotten characters in history. I don't consider this a necessarily good thing. He was a socialist Marxist and I'm glad there's one less with his viewpoint in Congress, but I'm not glad the guy is dead. I can't imagine how devastated his family and friends must be.

[F16Fighter]

"I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides."

Let's cut the BS -- Paul Wellstone and his "principles" were anathema to the Republic of the United States of America, and true freedom thereof, AS IS THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY...

Furthermore, with "more people like this," especially on his "side," the Republic's demise and total breakdown would be just around the corner.

[F16Fighter]

"I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides."

Let's cut the BS -- Paul Wellstone and his "principles" were anathema to the Republic of the United States of America, and true freedom thereof, AS IS THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY...

Furthermore, with "more people like this," especially on his "side," the Republic's demise and total breakdown would be just around the corner.

[F16Fighter]

"I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides."

Let's cut the BS -- Paul Wellstone and his "principles" were anathema to the Republic of the United States of America, and true freedom thereof, AS IS THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY...

Furthermore, with "more people like this," especially on his "side," the Republic's demise and total breakdown would be just around the corner.

[F16Fighter]

"I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides."

Let's cut the BS -- Paul Wellstone and his "principles" were anathema to the Republic of the United States of America, and true freedom thereof, AS IS THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY...

Furthermore, with "more people like this," especially on his "side," the Republic's demise and total breakdown would be just around the corner.

[ImpBill]

Thank you. It is good to see some class here. I too agreed with little about his politics but I absolutely respected that he was one of the only unabashed liberals in the Senate. He made no apologies for it and was true to his convictions. Not like the vast majority of the the libs in both the Democrat and Republican membership in the congress.

[1L]

I disagreed with Senator Wellstone on just about every issue, but he was a liberal who really believed in what he was doing and stood for his principles and fought for them. I'd like to see more people like this on both sides.

This is just wrong to me. A "liberal who really believed in what he was doing" is like someone who really believes the moon is made of green cheese. Wellstone wasn't someone who belived in the classical liberal ideas of inalianble rights, he was a modern liberal who wanted government enforcing his ideas of social engineering. Like other modern liberals, his tools of the trade were lies, hypocrisy, going back on his word, and being mean spirited to name just a few. Wellstone and other modern liberals would never say a conservative "stood on his principles" because modern liberals simply don't believe one can truly disagree with them, or at the least, those that do are Nazis. Someone fighting for principles that are not only wrong, but proven dangerous, is not in my mind someone to be praised. We can all be sorry he died (as I do), but let's please stop this praise of a terribly misguided person who sought to bring the whole country down with him.