Rick Kahn says he regrets (Wellstone) memorial service (campaign rally) speech, fears its impact

Minneapolis Red Star ^ | November 7, 2002 | Chuck Haga

[GreatOne]

In the final hours of what victor Norm Coleman would call "this most incredible campaign," Rick Kahn is reported to have waited nervously with his family for results in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race.

If Walter Mondale were to defeat Coleman, Kahn told a Newsweek reporter Tuesday night, he might attend the celebration with Mondale's supporters at the St. Paul Radisson Hotel.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

What cracks me up about the Wellstone funerally debacle is McAuliffe's reaction. He claims he didn't plan it, had nothing to do with it it was all the family's fault - heck give him a few more days and he'll be saying he wasn't even there!

[Boxsford]

Only regrets you have you scum is that you lost...

You are so right uncbob. Imagine the tune this character would be singing if Mondale would have won. It's all about the win. They continue to have no shame.

[Mike Fieschko]

WE WILL WIN!
WE WILL WIN!
WE WILL WIN!
WE WILL WIN!

Another freeper posted the riposte:

YOU JUST LOST!
YOU JUST LOST!
YOU JUST LOST!
YOU JUST LOST!

[Chemnitz]

I missed the full show, but you are right. The rally showed the Demon_rats for what they are. They are so foolish and out of it that they did not realize at the time how cruel the service seemed to the average person. A dignified memorial service with displays of patriotism would have stilled the doubts of many moderates. But who wanted to turn the state over to those zanies?

Besides that, Mondale only looked good when he was smiling. Otherwise he looked like a lab specimen preserved in a glass jar.

I agree with those who thought that Clinton grinning (not strong enough term) with Mondale was disgusting. I kept thinking, "Clinton did Mondull's daughter and they are both leering, or smiling, or yukking it up?" I imagine even some of the most liberal parents care, even in this hedonistic society. It made Mondull look like his was deliberately pimping his own daughter.

Bless their little pea-picking hearts, they haven't figured out yet how foolish they are.

[leprechaun9]

This is a prime example of the harvest from the indoctrination that has gone on in our school systems over the last three decades, where feelings of the heart surpassed logical thinging by the brain.

If it makes you feel good, then it's OK, a la Hillie & Billie Clintoon!

[HamiltonJay]

I told everyone when that memorial happened, they sealed the Dems fate in Minnesota. Some here were advocating major attack campaign against Mondale etc... I said, no need, they just slaughtered themselves. Just act civil and stick to issues and Coleman will win. Then to add insult to injury Mondale came out in debate railing like a radical liberal jackbooted thug, making matters even worse. Nothing better than watching a party self destruct...

[Ghengis]

"All I was talking about at the rally was that Paul was a brother to me," Kahn says in the report. "It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about partisan politics. It was a public expression of my private grief.

The democrats knew exactly the kind of "funeral" they were planning. This was exactly the reason Vice President Cheney was told not to come. And also why Ari let the press know in advance that V.P. Cheney had received the anti-invite.

The democrats played from the Klinton playbook and found that (thank goodness) only few can play this kind of petulant, punkish politics and get away with it. Now they are trying to figure out the rules of the game again.

[DrDavid]

I think the rally publicly showed what I had started to believe long ago about the character of the Democratic Party and its leadership. For me the appologies do not go to address the core issue, "Is this who the Democrats really are?" I'm afraid the answer is YES and nobody has done anything to demonstrate that it isn't.

It isn't Rick's fault. Rick was being himself and Paul's friend.

[sauropod]

Here is a msg from my heart, Mr. Kahn.

I am glad Mondale lost!!! Wrong for America.

[laconic]

Cheer up, Rick Kahn! You'll go down as a footnote person in US election history, an otherwise minor character whose actions or comments affected the course of history without intending to and certainly in a direction you didn't want to. You join the Reverend who gave the invocation "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" at James G. Blaine's presidential campaign breakfast, thereby alienating Catholic voters and winning the election for Grover Cleveland; the barber who didn't show up before the first presidential debate in 1960 to shave Nixon, making him look swarthy and untrustworthy; and the presidential briefer who informed Jerry Ford before the 1976 debate with Carter that Poland was not a communist state, widely credited with stopping Ford's momentum and throwing the election to Carter. Thank you for the new conservative Supreme Court judges who will serve for forty years!!

[woofie]

"All I was talking about at the rally was that Paul was a brother to me," Kahn says in the report. "It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about partisan politics. It was a public expression of my private grief.

Rally? ....I thought it was a memorial? There is the problem

[NittanyLion]

This was exactly the reason Vice President Cheney was told not to come.

Yep. They had to know that if Cheney were booed the GOP would have an issue with national resonance. Little did they know Jesse Ventura's walkout and subsequent interviews accomplished the same.

[Mustang]

Thugs...Hot Dogs...and Shills.

Me thinks average American voters viewed this debauched debacle, and for the first time, the light of truth exposed just how wanton these RATs are.

But, we've known this all along.

Mustang sends.

[mondonico]

... It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about partisan politics. It was a public expression of my private grief ...

More Dem lies. It was all McAuliffe (i.e., Clinton): Democratic operatives planned, engineered Wellstone political rally.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

"All I hope is that people would find it in their heart to understand and forgive me."

Rick, Rick, Rick - no Democrat who wants to succeed will ever allow you in a position of trust again. Time to dust off your resume and find a real job.

[thepainster]

Rich old boy,

Sorry to hear you are so down in the dumps. I feel your pain. Maybe you ought to put some ice on it.....

Sincerely,
Bill Clinton

[Paulus Invictus]

I love all this RAT back-tracking and blaming! Mc Auliffe made special efforts on TV to distance himself and RATS in DC from any idea that they had organized and choreographed the debacle (for the RATS, that is). Mc Idiot blamed the Wellstone family. What a nice guy at their time of sorrow. Of course, one of the speakers doing the campaign speeches was Wellstone's son. Maybe they were all in on the organization, after all. Does anyone really know the facts?

[irgbar-man]

My thought in the hours after the speech was that Kahn would get a great big fat electronic $$ transfer from the DNC offshore or Swiss bank account.

Today, if I were Mr. Khan, I'd hire some security personnel for fear of being Arkancided.

[mondonico]

Does anyone really know the facts?

According to Capital Hill Blue, it was all the DNC's idea. See post#54 for link.

[cinFLA]

Kahn even urged from the podium that U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad and other Republicans back Wellstone's replacement on the ballot, an appeal the Weekly Standard magazine called worthy of "a Maoist reeducation camp."

And he wants us to forgive him? Or is he pleading to his fellow democrats? It is amazing how the dems' zeal managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.