Novak & Noonan Say Wellstone Was Good Man -- What Are the Odds?

Houston Chronical & Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/25/02 & 10/26/02 | Novak & Noonan (Separately)

[fatguy]

What are the odds that liberal would be a good man?

[Utah Girl]

This is what I am waiting for, when Ronald Reagan dies, I want to hear some ultra-liberals praise him. (I don't think it will happen...)

[centexan]

I admired Wellstone for being honest about his core beliefs and fighting for what he believed. My Congresscritter, Chet Edwards, acts like Tom Delay at home but votes like Shelia Jackson-Lee in D.C. While I'm typing this reply he's running an ad about how much he opposes partial birth abortion even though he voted against limiting it every time it came up for a vote.

[BenLurkin]

This particular "liberal" wanted to destroy America and replace it with a socialist "worker's paradise".

I can't bring myself to call him a "good" man. Nice maybe, but not at all good.

[El Sordo]

It's amazing how cordial people can be towards you when you've just bought the farm.

[Dave S]

This is what I am waiting for, when Ronald Reagan dies, I want to hear some ultra-liberals praise him. (I don't think it will happen...)

It already has. Tip O'Neill used to speak highly of Reagan. Hell he used to play cards with him on an almost weekly basis. Chris Matthews speaks highly of him. I've heard more and more Dems say positive things about Reagan, especially in terms of foreign policy. To hear it though, you have to turn off the ultra sensitive paranoid blinders.

[clintonh8r]

"Liberal" is a deceptive description, designed to make him look good to some. In truth, he was a radical leftist, 60s style. Grieving is one thing, but these people making him out to be something he wasn't is dishonest. Typically, right wing pundits put good manners above principle.

[dts32041]

About the same as stalin, being a good man.

[DWSUWF]

"...What are the odds that liberal would be a good man?..."

Roughly the same odds that a 50 year old whore who's been skinning sailor's drawers down for 35 years would be a virgin.

Liberalism is evil, and those who practice it are evil.

To the mewlers and pukers here at FR... He's dead. He can't do any more damage to our country. Bury what little is left of him and saddle up.

[DWSUWF]

"...What are the odds that liberal would be a good man?..."

Roughly the same odds that a 50 year old whore who's been skinning sailor's drawers down for 35 years would be a virgin.

Liberalism is evil, and those who practice it are evil.

To the mewlers and pukers here at FR... He's dead. He can't do any more damage to our country. Bury what little is left of him and saddle up.

[kcar]

I am sick of these eulogies. This guy was (and was advocating) sucking at the teat of the great tax-funded state, right? And all I hear is what "passion" he had for the role he played. Sorry to be callous - I am sure their are grief-stricken family and friends that were "innocent"-but I too have a passion - to keep as much of my paystub out of the hands of people like him as is possible. Sorry to be non-PC, but news cycles are fast these days, and those who want to avoid being future prey should keep apace. He was a public figure - we should move on.

[L`enn]

When I read these things it reminds me of the old Warner Bros Cartoon, with Foghorn Leghorn as a Shepherd and a Wolf prowling after the sheep. At 7 AM they walk to "work" together with their lunchpails and their arms around each other and when the work buzzer goes off, its off to do battle. When the workday ends they shake hands and leave work arm and arm again.

That is what is so disappointing to many of us, we expect a little bit more fire from our representatives and it to carry on past the sessions.

[WOSG]

yes, the weasels, like Ann Richards and Bill Clinton and Chet Edwards and about 100 other Democrats in Congress are often worse than the honest Liberal like Wellstone.

But in the end they are all voting for Liberalism.

[fatguy]

Typically, right wing pundits put good manners above principle.

I was suprised that Novak was uncritical, he normally operates from conservative principle -- calling both Democrates and Republicans to task.

On the other hand, he once praised Steve Neal of the Chicago Sun-times who is an insufferable liberal.

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[Jonathon Spectre]

Conservatives don't appreciate liberals enough either.

This is because liberals are working to destroy America root and branch and replace it with something that looks a lot like Bosnia-Herzegovina. To say I don't "appreciate" liberals is like saying I don't "appreciate" cancer.

Most of the puking "oh-he-was-a-good-guy" pablum I've read about Wellstone focuses on the fact that "at least he was a flat-out liberal who was honest in his beliefs." Stalin was pretty unrepentant and honest about his beliefs too, does that make him "good"?

Most of Paul Wellstone's ideas were antithetical to the idea of freedom. It's a shame he's dead, but certainly not a shame he no longer has his leftist claws wrapped around a Senator's power.

[E=MC²]

Funny how wellstone gets praise upon praise for being sincere and yet any conservative who would dare sincerely criticize his socialistic bent is scalded by the "genteel" amongst us.

[centexan]

But in the end they are all voting for Liberalism.

Absolutely. And they must be defeated. But I won't demonize Wellstone 'cuz he was wrong in his politics. At least he was honest about it. I'll save my loathing for Clinton and his ilk.