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John Warner is a creep, coward, lowlife. Mark Levin described some of his dastardly deeds from the past yesterday. I remembered one of them - when Ollie North was running for the Senate - Warner convinced some Repub to run in also - splitting the Repub vote. Ollie would have won. What a difference it would have made to have Ollie in office - then George Allen could have run against Warner and the blowhard would have been replaced. What a difference in our NATION it would have been to have Ollie and Allen as Va Senators!

Come on, Virginia! We need George Allen IN and Warner OUT as soon as possible.

Just my novelist's imagination running wild, but what if Warner was discovered by kingmaker Eastern Establishment forces when he was married to a Mellon heiress. Then when that marriage ended, the rich kingmakers he had met still liked him enough to help arrange a marriage that would bring him some publicity. Being married to Liz Taylor brings you into the public spotlight.

Then a solid conservative candidate dies in a plane crash and the party is looking for someone to run. Voila, John Warner becomes an establishment candidate for Senate. No. I am not implying any foul play in the plane crash -- if you fly around enough in small planes, particularly over mountains, you run a substantial risk of having a plane crash.

Some of these marriages among the elite change the political landscape as much as marriages between royalty used to do. Think of the power shift that occurred between John Heinz and John Kerry. One day, Bonesman John Heinz is a fairly high-profile Republican Senator. Then a plane crash occurs, and pretty soon his wife is married to a high-profile Bonesman and Democrat Senator John Kerry, and Heinz's kids are volunteering on the Kerry campaign.

These facts are so plain and out-in-the open that there is no reason to use words like conspiracy. They are simply historical reality, and not necessarily bad. I am sure that I would personally like and respect some of the kingmakers and behind-the-scenes liasons and operatives who work for them ("manipulators" if you don't like them) who make things happen and change the course of history.

I wrote a novel called "The Figurehead" available on Amazon if you like this sort of stuff.