Posted on 10/02/2002 10:58:38 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Dems to Torch: Only crooks who can win
Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli's announcement that he was pulling out of the New Jersey Senate race this week looked like a confession of guilt in a Soviet show trial. In the reflection of his dewy eyes, you could almost see Terry McAuliffe mouthing the words to him from the audience. Especially the part where he paid tribute to the great Bill Clinton, to whom Torricelli evidently owes his deeply ingrained sense of ethics.
Torricelli will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.
But the Democrats had no qualms with the gifted senator (get it?) until he fell behind in the polls. Only then did the call come for Torricelli to withdraw. It had to be done. A woman's right to kill a child is on the line! If Torricelli loses, the Senate could tip to the Republicans, which would be a disaster of unspeakable consequence.
Specifically, Democrats will not be able to obstruct the president in performing his constitutional duty to appoint judges. A vacancy on the Supreme Court could materialize and, against overwhelming historical odds, Bush's appointee might be one of five votes to strike down Roe v. Wade. Then – God forbid – the public would be allowed to vote on an important issue! In some of the less- enlightened states, the public might not recognize the fundamental human right to suck the brains out of little babies.
Apart from treason, this is all the Democratic Party stands for anymore.
Republicans can only marvel at the Democrats' gall and Stalinist party discipline. Vernon Jordan is probably on the phone to Revlon right now trying to get Torricelli that nice job once designated for Monica. If Republicans played like Democrats, President Bush would have offered Torricelli an ambassadorship not to withdraw from the race.
The Democrats' 11th-hour switch is in violation of state election law, which puts a 51-day limit on withdrawing from an election. This is not a random filing requirement. Torricelli's Republican opponent, Douglas R. Forrester, has designed an entire campaign – polls, advertisements, issues – on the assumption that he was running against a specific candidate. As soon as his campaign against that candidate began to work and he pulled ahead, Democrats switched the candidate.
One may assume that violating the law did not even break the Democrats' stride. The nettlesome part must have been explaining to Torricelli that he was to be replaced by former Sen. Frank Lautenberg – whom Torricelli famously, and not without justice, despises.
This entire spectacle is a sham. If Lautenberg is elected, he will resign so that the Democratic governor can appoint a replacement. Torricelli was a place-holder for the campaign, and now Lautenberg will be a place-holder for the election.
Democrats wail about every vote counting when they need to steal votes after an election. But in New Jersey they won't even tell the voters who the candidate is. If Democrats could get away with it, they'd claim to be running "Ronald Reagan" in all elections and then fill the seats with the equivalent of James Carville.
(Perhaps the Democratic governor could recycle another of his appointees, New Jersey's poet laureate Amiri Baraka, who has been causing a stir lately with poems about how the Jews bombed the World Trade Center.)
When Strom Thurmond was approximately 150 years old, the Republicans couldn't get him to resign just two years early to ensure that a Republican governor would appoint his successor. Republicans couldn't even get all Republican senators on board to remove a Democratic president who was a known felon and probable rapist. Meanwhile, not one Democratic senator diverged from the party line on Clinton.
Democrats insist that their losing candidates be taken off the ballot 38 days before an election – if that will help them win a majority in Congress. They keep dead candidates on the ballot – if that will help them win a majority in Congress. They put conservative candidates on the ballot in the South and Midwest – if that will help Democrats win a majority in Congress.
Two days before Torricelli "decided" to pull out of the New Jersey race, Pasty Mink, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, died of pneumonia. Unlike Torricelli, Mink is evidently irreplaceable. The Democrats have insisted that her name remain on the ballot. It will cost the taxpayers of Hawaii millions of dollars to run a special election if she wins.
When Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash just three weeks before the 2000 election, his wife, Jean, volunteered to be appointed to the seat if he won. Carnahan was behind in the polls before the plane went down, but in an outpouring of sympathy for the grieving widow, the dead man won an upset victory.
Now, two years later, the widow is again campaigning on the slogan: "Keep the flame alive." That's considered a good issue in a Senate campaign. Talking about the war is a dirty campaign trick.
While Democrats encourage voters to ignore the Democrats' position on the war in the upcoming congressional elections and instead to concentrate on tiny local issues – such as sympathy for the candidate's deceased husband – it is they who have nationalized all congressional elections. As the New Jersey scam proves, it's all about control of Congress.
In a gallant statement celebrated as The New York Times' Quote of the Day, Torricelli said: "I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate." He also won't end up on the Clinton death list now either. Nor will Saddam Hussein if Democrats have their way. The only items remaining on the Democrats' death list are honest elections and a million unborn babies.
But I don't say hello, bless you and great googooly moogooly enough!
That was a profound statement on the integrity of the Democrat Party. John Ashcroft conducted himself like a virtuous man, a servant to the best interests of an authentically hurt Missouri people. He thought about losing his spouse and his son ... he wasn't going to open that wound.
Carnahan voted AGAINST THIS MAN!
That's all we need to know about the Dems. They are soulless mobsters.
There is NO scenario, reviewed by any people of good will and integrity, where Jean Carnahan's vote against John Ashcroft for Attorney General can be seen as anything but a corrupt and despicable ploy. Ashcroft gave up his Senate seat to heal the loss of Missourians. Carnahan jammed it up his exit ramp.
Nothing bad enough can happen to Democrats. They're mobsters.
Anyone who uses the term "RINO" should have Marty O'Neill like "fines and suspensions", the worst RINO has a better voting record than the best conservative Democrat.
Carnahan can't win. Harkin can't win. Wellstone can't win. Lautenberg can't win. Citizens who vote for Tom Harkin or Frank Lautenberg are awaiting a check. Freepers who see no difference between the GOP and Democrats need to be moved into the Special Olympic forum, because that is no longer a sane, rational approach.
Ann works her professional program magnificently.
It's a fine line between clever and stupid.
I saw his statement. That was righteous, he made a decison as a minister, a Missouran and a MAN!
He had no idea he'd be the AG ... at that time Bush wasn't even the Prez. He did the right thing for a grieving wife and mother. George W Bush found his honest and trustworthy AG that day. Folks here who smear Ashcroft as some conspiratorial fascist will never escape my aggressive challenge. Ashcroft is honest as the day is long.
So, what did Jean Carnahan do after Ashcroft demonstrated such kindness, compassion and integrity? She voted against him, three months later, to be Attorney General.
How empty, how corrupt and cynical does an individual like Jean Carnahan need to be to cast that vote against John Ashcroft?
MM, Democrats are not just our political adversaries, they are our mortal enemies. Pure and simple. We don't share a common set of objectives and mores with 40% of our neighbors.
Anyone on FR who sees no difference between Dems and Pubbies can no longer be humored. The ongoing lie ain't making it anymore. The Jersey RATS laid it out naked and straight. They'll do anything to win.
As Freepers, we need to organize and defeat this assault. "Hi, I'm ArneFufkin, I'm your voting chaperone! Everyone from the bus, single file through the registration line!" LOL. We need to be standing around in urban precincts. We need to break up voter fraud.
Julia Carson, who represents most of Indianapolis, is behind in the polls. She's hardly running ads at all. On the radio the other day, she said she wasn't concerned, as she ALWAYS comes from behind to win.
I distinctly remember her being on the radio with Dan Burton during the Florida recount. Burton started talking about vote fraud and she got very agitated and said that most things could be explained by mistakes. HA! I suppose it was just a "mistake" that in the last election a voting machine was found along the shore of Fall Creek. Yep, it just accidentally rolled away!
We now have a democrat mayor in Indianapolis, and I imagine that for the foreseeable future there will be a democrat representative for Indianapolis.
You are correct, of course. They are crooks and mobsters, interested only in grabbing power, using any means whatsoever. Democrats who seem reasonable (like Zell Miller and my brother, using a national and a personal example) are enablers of the crooks. The time is coming where they are going to have to choose to either support this type of lawless behavior, or stand for what is right and leave the party.
They don't have to become Republicans, but they certainly should not be supporting the democrats.
They'll want to beat me up, but I'm just stupid and helpful.
If I'm there observing, the busloads of lemmings from Zion Baptist will go somewhere else. They'll get lost, the other poll is at a SCHOOL!
We don't need t be aggressive, we just need to be State employed goofballs who are THERE, dumb as dirt, and messing all the corruption up.
"Here, let me help you keep track of these people so the line doesn't get too long."
"I have a car, would you like me to drive you to voting headquarters?"
"Do you mind if I take a picture of all of you so I can remember our election day fun?"
When a bus leaves my polling place, I'll certainly call all others in the vicinity to warn them about an individual who sure looks like that $5000 guy on America's Most Wanted! Who voted already.
I'm also thinking about my muse as a documentary filmmaker, archiving a day in the life of a disenfranchised urban voter. LOL!
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