(Candidate Lyndon) LaRouche Raises Big Money, Gets No Respect From DNC

CNSNews.com ^ | August 25, 2003 | By Christine Hall

[sauropod]

I'd exclude him too. He's a wacko.

[WL-law]

"Vote for Lyndon -- he's NOT INSANE!"

[hellinahandcart]

The DNC, LaRouche asserted, believes he has the ability to win. "That's what they're afraid of. The DNC would never do this (exclude him) unless those who are pushing for it were afraid I could win.

"The way they deal with a candidate who they think is not effective is they ignore him," LaRouche said

What a nutbar. If you're ignoring someone, you're also excluding them.

I don't send party invitations to people I'm ignoring, do you? In order to include them, I'd have to first stop ignoring them.

[FReepaholic]

>>...Gets No Respect From DNC...<<

They ain't got none to give.

[MitchellC]

Sure, but how is he any more nutty than the other candidates?

[D. Brian Carter]

"We're a pretty big tent, but the tent doesn't include lunatics and criminals," Mellman said.

Just here in S. Florida alone, Alcee Hastings and Bob Graham are proof of that...

[Physicist]

"They're afraid of me," said LaRouche.

Well, I wouldn't trust him around a box of matches or a drawer full of knives, but by and large I'd say he's harmless.

[dagnabbit]

"We're a pretty big tent, but the tent doesn't include lunatics and criminals," Mellman said.

Ted Kennedy, Alcee Hastings, and Barney Frank beg to differ.

[Physicist]

Sure, but how is he any more nutty than the other candidates?

Well, buying an hour of air time on the major networks to talk about a Mars colony he designed was pretty kooky. I remember laughing really hard when he said that he designed it "in accordance with Kepler's third law".

[Physicist]

"We're a pretty big tent, but the tent doesn't include lunatics and criminals," Mellman said.

<cough>clinton</cough>

[palmer]

LaRouche in his own words:

The categorical form of that widespread denial of the efficient existence of truth, is the central feature of the intentionally fraudulent life's work of that now-deceased Professor Strauss, the Nietzschean den-mother of today's Chicken-hawk brood.

[alloysteel]

The reformulated Democratic party shall emerge from the wreckage of the old in a few years. Those who style themselves as "Democrat" today will have mostly departed and joined the "Greens". The core of the reconstituted party will be Lyndon La Rouche and others of his ilk, and the core beliefs will be loosely based on the old New Deal programs of FDR. Using government employment as a means to assure full employment, confiscatory taxation above a certain level, dismantling the entire military-industrial complex, and totally planned economic models.

Of course, it will be a minority party. But then, there may never be a majority of anything again.

[MindBender26]

Interviewed him once. Asked about the fist fight his supporter/employee got into with Mrs. Kissenger. He did not want to get into that!!!

Next day, got a call from one of his supporters doing a very bad Gestapo imitation "ve haf vays of dealink mit you" accent and act.

Total psychotic.... but a smart psychotic.

[blackdog]

ANTSOSA!

To quote a rag he used to print, "The law of Geography of circumstance" shall be in full force here.

It basically states that any hopeless cause, argument, or circumstance enjoys an infinate possibility of succeeding due to each circumstance following laws of geography. (of course one would have to follow at least one law)

[Poohbah]

Next day, got a call from one of his supporters doing a very bad Gestapo imitation "ve haf vays of dealink mit you" accent and act.

The accent may not have been an act. I know a gal who interviewed him and asked the same kinds of questions.

She didn't get the phone call. She got two ex-Ostdeutsch skinheads (illegal immigrants, BTW) calling at the front door of her husband's business to beat her up.

Too bad they couldn't read English.

It's really bad form to attack the wife of the sensei during his Advanced Shotokan Karate class. They got snippy about it. :o)

[blackdog]

I'm still waiting for the nuclear fusion reactor his scientists were mere weeks away from completing(in 1984) Of course in order to complete it, they needed another cash contribution of as much as you could spare.

Very few smart people, and I mean the really smart ones not just some word twisting hack with a pretty face, are able to do much of anything in the political fray. Once the selection of words used to communicate beyond the third grade kicks in you tend to lose the public. That also goes to referencing history, international politics, economics, and critical thought.

The American public is the reason there should be a successful completion of a test before becoming a registered voter.

LaRouche knows how to tap into the well meaning public who knows something is rotten in politics but are too lazy to become smart. He sounds so smart and he's as ugly as the rest of us, so he must be a good choice.

[MindBender26]

Hmmmm. Was in Amarillo, TX at the time, doing story on security problems at the Pantex Plant. Pantex where they do final assembly on all the nuc weapons.

Had been out in the Texas sun all day, so told them something warm and friendly like, "BIOYAC."

Never heard from him again. Of course, he might have been otherwise occupied. Sensi can be so humorless at times. :~)

PS Security at Pantex much better than security at Chernobyl/Pripyat. One night in Pripyat, offered a security guard $40 green for his AK. In about 20 seconds, I was proud owner of weapon, four loaded mags, sling and cleaning kit!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Is he out of jail yet?

[ModelBreaker]

I remember laughing really hard when he said that he designed it "in accordance with Kepler's third law".

What, would you prefer a Mars colony that was not so designed?