Ex-Senator (Lautenberg) to Replace Torricelli

AP via Yahoo ^ | 10/01/02 | JOHN P. McALPIN

[Wphile]

I'm more than jaded. I feel like I'm becoming despondent. Perhaps ignorance is bliss afterall?

[section9]

Call me crazy, call me irresponsible, or just plain call me, but I think that Forrester will win this race. He's a good guy. He was very effective in debate against the Torch. I think that the Democrats are fooling themselves if they believe that Forrester has only one issue.

Forrester is a center-right Republican. I don't believe that he will allow himself to be framed like Davis was able to do to Simon in CA. And I also believe that voters in New Jersey are going to react negatively to these shenanigans.

This is going to turn off independent voters. I can tell you this for sure.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[sneakypete]

They have just picked a candidate for U.S. Senate BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and without the will of the people

Kinda like what the RNC did with Giddy Dolt,huh?

[NRA1776]

That was the worst speech I have ever heard, he rattled off the same tired old blather the dims have been trying to push on us for years. He will have to work a lot harder to change the subject and hide this travesty.

[eddie willers]

I forgot the 40 pound meatloaf.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"I think it would be fun to beat Tom Daschle about the head and shoulders for a few minutes."

Can we add Alan Colmes to the list?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

So...how do ya like that new tone in Washington?

[DWPittelli]

You mean-spirited people!

Senator Lautenberg made it very clear, fairness demands that he be put on the ballot. The law is unfair!

It's just too important that the Democratic Party remain in power, we've fought too long:

Fighting polluters! Unfettered abortion!

More drugs for seniors! Saving Social Security from deficit spending!
And other beneficial acts of socialism.

[marajade]

"When do I stop telling MY kids to obey the laws."

I guess as long as you are a senator or president and belong to the Democratic party that it doesn't matter that one obeys any law because any other Democrat in the judicial branch could care less...

I'm so mad I could just spit.

[for-q-clinton]

It's funny when you go to the DU they say the same about the "repukes" as they refer to them.

It's funny how 2 people can see something so completely differently. It's obvious who is corrupt here, and even some of them recognize it, but they still defend it.

[Unknown Freeper]

All he had to do was read it. Did you see him shuffling the papers while McGreedy was doing the intro?

[cake_crumb]

Hmmm....I like this headline better:

Dems Replace Sputtering Torch with Guttering Candle

How can they, exactly, when the JN Supreme Court hasn't even heard the arguments to decide if the Dems replacing their lame duck candidate this close to the election is even legal? Sounds as though it's been decided before the fact...or like the media is conjecturing instead of reporting the facts AGAIN.

[NRA1776]

Please don't blame Florida for the acts of the criminal democratic party. Floridians fought hard to prevent the theft of the 2000 election.

[nutmeg]

The DemonCraps are gangsters, nothing less.

"I'm a liberal Democrat. I started in Florida politics. I worked for George McGovern. I worked for Jimmy Carter. I've worked for Ted Kennedy, Mario Cuomo. Nobody can question, I think, my credentials and my convictions. But I have to tell you, at this point it's hard to believe, but my party, the party that [my family has] belonged to since my great-great-grandfather, ... has become no longer a party of principles, but has been hijacked by a CONFEDERACY OF GANGSTERS who need to take power by whatever means and whatever canards they can."

These words were spoken by Patrick Caddell on Chris Matthews' "Hardball" show on Nov. 27, 2000.

[cyncooper]

If it was JUST A RELATIONSHIP, then why is one party to the relationship in JAIL and the other in the US SENATE????

Exactly.

Now we see the results of Torricelli not being held to account as he would have if he had been, say, a republican.

(Had he the "R" after his name he would have at least been forced to resign MONTHS ago.)

[marajade]

"Kinda like what the RNC did with Giddy Dolt,huh?"

Um buddy not even close... She qualified for her primary and she won it fair and square...

[Right_in_Virginia]

"He ran unopposed in the primary election."

WHAT? New Jersey citizens weren't give a CHOICE??

I'm outraged!

[dirtboy]

They're doing it right in front of your eyes.

Let's see what SCONJ does first. I'm almost looking forward to this, because the nation, IMO, really doesn't want this crap just two years after Floriduh and during a war. At least in Floriduh, SCOFLAW could point to some verbiage in the state Constitution to say that every vote should be counted. But what can SCONJ point to? Toricelli has not been convicted. He has not confessed to criminal activities - to the contrary, he was defiant in his speech yesterday. So he is legally capable of taking the Senate seat if he were elected. Allowing a party to change candidates because they were getting creamed in the polls would set a horrible precedent, and the SCONJ tries to cultivate a certain judicial superiority - they have their own credibility at stake, which would be sorely damaged if they tried to strike down the clear intent of the law.

This will be really interesting to watch.

[sunshine state]

Could I get a ping for those threads? Thanks.

[DWPittelli]

Who can deny the pain they've gone through, the tough, tough decision to ignore the electorate!

But if they didn't, the Senate might fall to the forces of darkness who will rape Bambi and snatch drugs away from old people who suffer from cancer due to the runaway polluters who will outlaw our very right to choose!