Left Accuses GOP: "Getting Rid of Wellstone is Passion for Rove, Cheney, George W. Bush"

Citizens for Legitimate Government ^ | 10/26/02 | Self

[bootless]

This is what I received in my email. My comments follow. Bold is theirs.

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
October 26, 2002
http://www.legitgov.org/

-- BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY--
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
[Senator Paul Wellstone, 58, died in plane crash. We have lost one of our best, brightest and most consistently progressive Senators. And now Senate control is in serious jeopardy. We mourn the terrible loss of a true Patriot and hero.]

Paul Wellstone, Fighter -- by John Nichols (The Nation, May 9, 2002)
"Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state. Rather, getting rid of Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated political operation ever assembled by a presidential administration. 'There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone,' a senior Republican aide confides. 'This one is political and personal for them.' "

Bush Fears Tenacious, Popular Wellstone -- by John Nichols (Madison Capital Times, April 24, 2001)
"Let there be no doubt as to the identity of George W. Bush’s least favorite Democratic U.S. senator. It’s Wellstone, the rabble-rousing Progressive who represents not just Minnesota but what remains of the fighting populist spirit of the Upper Midwest... The Bushies despise Wellstone, who unlike most Senate Democrats has been fighting spirited battles against the new administration’s policies on everything from the environment to the tax cuts for the rich to military aid for the 'Plan Colombia' drug war boondoggle. Other Democratic senators who face re-election contests in 2002 are, according to polls, more vulnerable than Wellstone. But the Bush camp has been focusing highest-level attention on "Plan Wellstone" — its project to silence progressive opposition."

Mysterious group spends $1 million on anti-Wellstone campaign Americans for Job Security, a Virginia-based interest group that opposes the reelection of Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, has made an unprecedented $1 million ad buy that will fill the airwaves in the last two weeks before the election, according to Wellstone campaign officials.

Wellstone Sets Pace, Declares Support for Action on Corporate Reform (Oct. 24, 2002) Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota today became the first Member of Congress to support a pledge to work for top to bottom reform of corporations and to provide new tools for federal regulators to protect taxpayers, consumers and investors. The 12-point pledge is being circulated to all 535 members of the Senate and the House of Representatives by Ralph Nader in an effort to build momentum for major reforms in the wake of the corporate fraud exposed at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphi, Arthur Andersen and many other businesses.

Minnesota Senator Is Among 8 Dead in Crash Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was killed Friday when his campaign plane crashed in a wooded region in the northern part of his state, officials said Friday. Mr. Wellstone, 58, a Democrat who was one of the Senate's most liberal members and was in a fierce fight to win re-election to a third term, perished along with seven other people when the aircraft went down near Eveleth. Mr. Wellstone had opposed the resolution giving pResident Bush the authority to invade Iraq. [This is a terrible loss and one of the most inauspicious coincidences imaginable!]

Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone dead in plane crash in Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat from Minnesota, was killed in a small plane crash Friday about seven miles east of Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, authorities said. Eight people were reported aboard the plane -- a twin-engine turboprop King Air manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft.

Raytheon wants to help in investigation of senator's plane crash [Holy Cover-Up, Batman!! I am *SURE* they do!] Wichita-based Raytheon Aircraft Co. said it is willing and able to send an investigative team to examine the cause of the plane crash that killed U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone along with his wife, daughter and five others in northern Minnesota Friday.

Team to search for crash causes -- Investigation: The FBI will determine whether Friday's crash was caused by bad weather, mechanical problems or human error. The Beech King Air that Sen. Paul Wellstone boarded in St. Paul Friday morning had a solid track record as one of the most popular workhorses in the sky. But something went wrong Friday... {FREEPER NOTE: Icing will do that to you in Northern Minnesota.)

Did the right-wing or CIA or someone close to Bush tamper with Sen. Wellstone’s plane?
By Jackson Thoreau "My first hunch about Sen. Wellstone's tragic plane crash less than two weeks before this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with by right-wingers, possibly the CIA. Raytheon Co., one of the biggest U.S. military contractors and manufacturer of the plane that crashed, is a huge donor to Republicans - U.S. House Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, for instance, received $48,201 alone from Raytheon in 1997-98. The Republican National Committee received at least $170,000 from Raytheon since 1999." {FREEPER Note: ... Oh, never mind. What can I add to what you're already thinking?}

Raytheon -- Strategic Business Areas The company's four strategic business areas are aligned to provide customers with solutions that draw upon the capabilities of the entire company. These strategic business areas are: Missile Defense; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Precision Strike; and Homeland Security. Raytheon Backgrounders: Raytheon - Experienced Partner in Homeland Security; Raytheon - Airport Security; First Responder Command and Communication Vehicle

Similarities of Wellstone, Carnahan deaths send shudder through body politic. It was all too similar: A fatal plane crash days before an election in a hard-fought U.S. Senate race [killing key Democrats]. The accident that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, members of his family and three of his staff on Friday chilled political figures from Missouri, coming as it did almost exactly two years after the death of Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan. [The most virulent strains of anthrax were sent to whom? That would be *Democrats.* Coincidence run amok...] {FREEPER NOTE: Leftist paranoia run amok. Both GOP opposition candidates suspended their campaigns following each crash. And Carnahan WON!}

Wellstone Death Throws Senate Race Into Chaos The sudden death of incumbent Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone threw a tight Minnesota race that could decide control of the Senate into chaos on Friday, little more than a week before the election.

Statement by President Al Gore on Senator Paul Wellstone 1944-2002

Lori R. Price
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Petition to Senate - Investigate Oddities of 9/11: http://www.petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html

[bootless]

This one pretty much guarantees a Dem sympathy vote in Minnesota, too. But to accuse like this - the funeral hasn't even been held, for crying out loud. Have theyno decency?

It's a rhetorical question. The answer is obvious.

[coramdeo]

This is so hard to keep straight. The NY Times and Washington Post, which I know are scrupulously unbiased and never wrong, keep telling me that we are the narrow-minded, hateful, paranoid ones, but when I read something like this it almost makes me question their objectivity.

[Humidston]

They have no shame. None!

This will increase the sympathy factor and drive more Dims to the polls.

I heard a man on FNC just say, "Now it would take a MIRACLE for the Republicans to take back the Senate."

Every time we get a close race, their side dies and our side has to step aside - out of respect.

[Asclepius]

My first hunch about Sen. Wellstone's tragic plane crash less than two weeks before this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with by right-wingers, possibly the CIA.

Oh, yeah. Because Tenat's Baghdad-is-no-threat CIA is so right-wing.

[rwfromkansas]

If the replacement candidate wins in MN, the GOP hopes to take back the Senate vanish. THere is not even a slim chance we could win if we lose MN.

[Balding_Eagle]

If anyone missed Sothhack Sages post, go back and read it.

Profound observation and simple comeback to The Dark Sides accusations.

[Southack]

"I agree. Can someone show any info regarding the latest Wellstone numbers in the race? I ain't much on conspiracy stuff but this is just too fishy."

It doesn't have to necessarily even be due to some conspiracy. For instance, it might be just bad campaign advice (e.g. "travel everywhere and fast") once they get behind.

But whatever the reason, it is statisticly odd that Democratic Party Senatorial candidates who fall behind in the polls seem to have much shorter life spans.

[rwfromkansas]

I heard that too. I am mystified by such an extreme pessimism. There is 10 days to get everything up and running.......and they probably will not get a candidate until the funeral either, which leaves basically 7 days or so. We may lose this one, but we still have a shot.

[bootless]

Well, perhaps the good people of Minnesota will take the lesson of Missouri to heart - and what it did to the Senate balance - and vote the way they were going to vote in the first place. (Fool me twice...)

[Southack]

"Oh, yeah. Because Tenat's Baghdad-is-no-threat CIA is so right-wing."

To clarify, let's make that: "Because Clinton-Appointed, Registered Democrat Tenent's CIA is so right wing < /SARCASM >"...

[bootless]

Welcome back bump to Mia!

[sheik yerbouty]

A collateral Arkencide.

[SeaDragon]

Damn! That is just disgusting.

[Howie]

Saw the NTSB lady on Fox about half hour ago giving a witness description: "Fellow is used to planes flying over but this one sounded different, looked outside, saw plane crabbing over, came back in house,few seconds later felt a jolt, heard what sounded like a SHOT, realizes now it was the plane crashing."

I'm thinking "man he could have decribed the impact with a better word than a "SHOT!"

[EllaMinnow]

You won't believe how paranoid they are...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/13395.html

[johnny7]

The dems will come out of the closet on this one.

Not only Wellstone but his wife also perished.

Too bad Teddy K. didn't go for the ride. Maybe his bloated carcass could have saved them from impact.

This won't be a Carnahan replay. They have 7 days to convince Mondale to re-invent himself!

HA! 2002 is looking brighter all the time... excuse me, my sunglasses need a good cleaning.

[CounterCounterCulture]

See, it all started with another funeral that somehow the Republicans were responsible. In cahoots with the funeral home for scheduling purposes and meteorologists who had the long-range forecast for Minnesota all planned out for a convenient excuse of "weather-related problems", it was all an elaborate plan from the beginning. So when Raytheon Aircraft intentionally sabotaged the plane, complete with a suicidal religious nut for a pilot, and an un-unionized mechanic, it was easy pickings, and this time no widow to keep his seat.

VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY, INDEED!

< /SARCASM, OF COURSE >

[bootless]

These people make my head hurt. (And it's not the flu that I seemed to have picked up. Bad timing, there. I have too much to do!)

[habs4ever]

Are these morons any worse than the bottom dwellers on the Right going on about Ron Brown?