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11.8.02 @ 12:01AM

PLUS NEW JERSEY
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Victory Matters:

It was a magnificent victory. Vulgarity was defeated everywhere but Illinois and California.
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, IL

Thank you for stating the obvious and common sense analysis that journalists have been ignoring for 8 years. This Nov. 5 election gives a glimpse of hope that the rule of law and decency and fair play and respect will become part of our election process once again. The spin doctors and the crude, rude, arrogant anchors "We Have It Now!" would do well to copy Marc Racicot. and Norm Coleman who displayed some decorum and some poise when pitted against Terry McAuliffe and the former V.P. Anyway, thank you for your ray of hope that somewhere there are still some editors and journalists who do not bow down to the left.
-- unsigned

As an investment banker with tenure, I have observed that those who are cautious and politic in their public face generally are the good guys. Remember John Ashcroft in '00. I think the adults in the voting public sense that. It is GWB's MO. Character and the appearance of character counts. Mike Scioscia is another great example.
-- David H. Horwich

With respect to your column today, as well as another that I read with respect to the Wellstone pep rally/memorial service -- and especially comments about our impeached ex-president -- I have a question.

Why is there no mention that the shameful crude behavior of the Clintons at the Wellstone event was not the first time the American public witnessed this inappropriate behavior blatantly exhibited by them?

At the conclusion of the televised 9-11 memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral last year, it was quite embarrassing to watch as they lingered outside the front door of the cathedral for quite a while doing their grandstanding, politicking, hugging, handshaking, etc., as mourners respectfully attempted to depart.

Thank you for your attention.
-- Albina Olson

Don't count Clinton out yet. Hillary had a wonderful couple of weeks. First, Wellstone's death leaves her in 2008 with no one (short of Havana or North Korea) to the left of her. She can fake centrist positions knowing that there will be no credentialed voice out there to signal her fabrications. Second, she apparently shares her husband's blackness. Her knifing of black gubernatorial candidate McCall appears to have been viewed as black on black crime by all the left-wing media (in accordance with policy and practice, they haven't mentioned it) and none of the usual race baiters have mentioned it, either. All in all, a good time for Hillary.
-- unsigned

Well done. If Mondale had left the pep rally when Ventura did, and disavowed it, he'd likely be the junior senator from MN now. 'Twas that pivotal and proves, good taste still counts for something.
-- Gary Larson in MN

DAKOTA DEBACLE
Re: The Washington Prowler's Recount Reservations:

Re: Of course Daschle and Johnson have been involved in close races before. They're Democrats in South Dakota, for [gosh] sake! Thune should have taken the Senate election by 53-47 at the least. His incompetent, "me-too, only less" campaign was a farce. He was pushed and pulled around by the Democrats' campaign, and danced to their tune. By so doing, he demonstrated to the voters of South Dakota, a wily and insightful group, that he had no more idea of what in the hell to do than the dumbest Democrat. He is an embarrassment to South Dakota and President Bush.
-- John Gridley

Having been co-chairman of the Kingsbury County Republicans for two years, I am not surprised by the outcome in SD. The farmers and elderly have gotten used to the tax money pipe Daschle held and pointed at his beloved home state. The reasons Johnson was is two-fold: The holy, sacred ground of the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota people that no white man should defile, unless of course, he wants to visit a holy, sacred casino or cigarette store, is the perfect place to cheat at the ballot box. Dances-With-Whole-Cloth can resurrect the spirits of the past, register them and cast their ballots without getting caught. The FBI will find nothing but a patsy, a rope-a-dope mirage that will take them nowhere. Get used to close races in states with reservations.

But why was the race so close in a state with sixty-plus percent Norwegian and Lutheran Republicans? It's the Choo-Choo Candy, stupid. (Choo-Choo-Candy is my term referring to Clinton's 2 million per mile government hand-out promises he made on the train from Missouri to Chicago in '96.) Those farmers and elderly loved the sweet nothin's Daschle's majority leader status brought them. Their vote for Johnson was a sure bet the Choo-Choo Candy would keep a-comin'. The voters really did like Thune, but they liked the Daschle fire hoses blowing government cash in their faces much better. Now, they'll get neither.

On the surface, I am quick to render a nya-nya-nya, neener-neener at them all, especially since I now live in Missouri. But I think I know what the reaction will be by those Norwegians and Lutherans, and it's the real reason Tom Daschle looked like he dialed up the Suicide Prevention hot line Tuesday night. He's toast in 2006. With no more loot flowing their way, and two very liberal Democrats in a fairly conservative state, the voters will admit their error and then make sure they cleanse themselves from their greedy ways. Daschle sees his future and it's shucking corn at the Arlington, SD elevator, not bringing home the taxpayer bacon.
-- Ken Russell
Clarksville, MO

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