Sounds eerily similiar to the Clintons' departure, albeit on a much smaller scale.
This is exactly why I think the Torch bowed out. "Don" Clinton made him an offer he couldn't refuse. ;-)
His Royal Podness
Excerpt:
Two days before Torricelli "decided" to pull out of the New Jersey race, Patsy 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.
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This pretty much says it all.
Ann used some hyperbole and satire to great effect here--and it is almost tragic that she is so correct as to why the Demonrats are hysterical. Abortion.
There was a woman who spoke at our church when I used to live in Moorestown New Jersey. She had had several abortions---and she courageously spoke out about what she went through. It was tragic: nightmares of body parts in her sink, hearing babies crying, and intense rage at seeing other mothers with their children.
She said went through every stage of post-traumatic stress syndrome. I later asked her about why she came forward--and she said that only God can heal certain wounds---and she wanted to let people know that God had mended hers--but to warn others as well. She talked about being active in abortion politics--and later came to regret her association with them. People who she thought would take a bullet for her were now her sworn enemies. She said hate-filled phone calls in the middle of the night were common place.
Coulter nailed it. It is not just "politics" to these wicked people. It is about good vs. evil---and Democrats cannot fathom facing their own gruesome visage in the mirror.
Apart from treason, this is all the Democratic Party stands for anymore.
Ann has one phenomenal point in every article that seems to stand on its own and outshine the rest. This is that point. She's fabulous.