Salt Lake Tribune (Republican youth) Rally has odd sense of humor

[dflprincess]

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/feb/02202004/utah/140572.asp

Paul Rolly and JoAnn Jacobsen-Wells
Salt Lake Tribune Columnists
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During a Feb. 5 meet-the-candidate night for the newly formed College Republicans U. chapter -- not to be confused with the older and more established College Republicans -- representatives for several candidates revved up the jovial crowd with such statements as "We need to put an end to the liberal Matheson era" and support "the Democrat killers."

As the audience giggled off and on, Mike Clement, representing congressional candidate Tim Bridgewater, spoke excitedly about Republican successes when College Republicans work hard, citing the victory of Norm Coleman in the 2002 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

As Clement bantered with the audience, one Republican gadfly noted that they defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale in that race, adding: "We had to kill off Wellstone to get it." He was referring to the death in a plane crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone and his family before the election.

An audio tape captures laughter. But both Clement and Danielle Fowles, acting chairwoman of the club, said they did not hear that comment and believe the laughter was just a continuation of the ongoing banter.

Now, despite the tinfoil hat I wear regarding Wellstone's death, I don't believe that these juvenile deliquents had anything to do with it. But, given that it is a crime to threaten an elected official, if I were running the Justice Department, I think I'd have to have the jerk who made this remark brought in for questioning. Just for fun of it. It's a little fantasy I'm having, indulge me.

[sallyseven]

1. They are republicans and they are

stupid of course. All of them are including the ones from RI that offered a scholarship to only white people.