joking about Wellstone's death

[donsu]

http://www2.sltrib.com/columnists/RollyWells/Main/Story.asp?VOL=02202004&NUM=140572

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.
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[ComerPerro]

1. sick

and that sleazebag Norm Coleman knows that the only reason he is in the Senate is because Wellstone's plane crashed just before the election.

Republicans are always on the happy side of circumstance. Ever notice that?

[Zookeeper]

5. Isn't that the truth!

I'll never forget the moment I heard the news of Wellstone's crash. In the heat of that Senate race, it certainly seemed just a little too convenient for the Republikooks.

My heart is still broken.

[Armand]

2. I read that and it almost made me cry.

Paul Wellstone was a loving man. He hated nobody. He helped everyone out here in Minnesota. He stuck up for us little people.

I really hate republicans. I don't understand how they could laugh at this. This just makes me sick. :puke:

If I could...I'd kick ever one of their asses.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Hey, Armand!

Welcome to another Minnesotan.

[Fovea]

3. Tell that little walking rectal thermometer

to come to KC and get one in the yarbles, if he's got any @#$&*(&Q yarbles the that is!

[northernsoul]

6. better yet, come on up to Wellstone Country

peckerwoods don't talk so tough when they're face to face with a couple dozen burly IUPAT guys who knew Paul and Sheila personally...

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. "GOP=Facsists"!!! What did you expect from the....

American Arm of the Nazi Party?

:mad:

[11 Bravo]

7. Karma is going to be an absolute bitch

for some people.

[9215]

9. Like they laughed about 9/11 being an inside job.

:kick: