SD6
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Re: So sure.......
said by footballdude  :said by SD6 :I didn't think we could get worse than John Ashcroft, the guy who lost to a dead person in an election Actually, he lost to a dead person's wife. But don't let the facts get in the way. Oh please. She was not a viable candidate and no one voted for HER. She was just a standin acting as a proxy for the dead guy. |
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footballdude
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Imperial, MO
| said by SD6 : Oh please. She was not a viable candidate and no one voted for HER. She was just a standin acting as a proxy for the dead guy. When Governor Carnahan's plane went down, Ashcroft had a six point lead in the polls. He immediately suspended his campaign. The St Louis Post Dispatch and the Kansas City Star went into overdrive to promote the governor's wife as a great senatorial candidate. It was too late to change the name on the ballot but everyone knew they were voting for her instead of the dead man. So with Ashcroft not campaigning and the newspapers beating a daily drum about how wonderful Ms Carnahan was, and with an election rife with fraud, Carnahan eeked out a victory by a handful of votes. The cry immediately went out for Ashcroft to contest the election results but he gracefully declined, saying he hoped her victory would bring her and her family some peace. A few weeks later when Ashcroft was nominated for Attorney General, Carnahan had the audacity to vote against him. She was summarily dismissed by voters in the next election.
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sporkme
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| said by footballdude :If Darwin was right and evolution really works, why are there so many stupid people out there? My thoughts exactly.
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SD6
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My statement was correct. The cold hard honest objective fact is Carnahan (not his wife) was the candidate on the ballot and Ashcroft lost to him. I understand his losing to a dead man may be an embarassing thing and there are other extenuating circumstances, but don't say I've got my facts wrong when you obviously know I don't. I understand your synopsis of events, but that is your version of the story and you are the one trying to keep the facts from getting in the way. |
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footballdude
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Imperial, MO
| said by SD6 :I understand his losing to a dead man may be an embarassing thing and there are other extenuating circumstances, but don't say I've got my facts wrong when you obviously know I don't. If you understand the extenuating circumstances but choose to ignore them in order to take a political cheap shot, then you shouldn't be surprised when someone calls you on it.
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SD6
join:2005-03-26
| Oh, you were calling me on a "political cheap shot"? I was probably confused because that's not what you said. When you said "he lost to a dead person's wife, but don't let the facts get in the way" I thought you were accusing me of misstating the facts and, of course, I had to show that I didn't. |
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