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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