[Atchafalaya]

Evolution gone bad.

[backhoe]

-Jihad Cindy? McKinney won't go quietly... indeed, she may not go away at all...--

[river rat]

It appears that defeated Democrats need a stake driven through their hearts to get them to lay down and shut up...

Semper Fi

[self_evident]

The florist club began in 1950 as a place where people in the Newtown community could turn for flowers in times of illness or death in their families, but has evolved over the years into a civil rights/environmental justice organization.

Huh?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

She will be the keynote speaker at a banquet at the Gainesville Civic Center marking the 53rd anniversary of the Newtown Florist Club.

The Florist Club is low on fertilizer?

[FreedomPoster]

She's baaaack.

Ping your friends in Gainesville. Why couldn't she stay up in Yankeeland at Cornell?

[Guillermo]

In fact, an estimated 47,000 Republicans voted in the Democratic Primary last year, helping force her out of Congress.

Where did he get this number from??

[G L Tirebiter]

The florist club began in 1950 as a place where people in the Newtown community could turn for flowers in times of illness or death in their families, but has evolved over the years into a civil rights/environmental justice organization.

Sounds like the "Garden Club" in the dream sequence in The Manchurian Candidate.

[Sloth]

a civil rights/environmental justice organization... " individuals who battle tirelessly for social and economic justice"

Anyone who uses the terms 'environmental justice', 'social justice' or 'economic justice' can pretty much be dismissed as a Commie.

As a result, McKinney filed a lawsuit against the practice of "crossover" voting in Georgia.

Count every vote!

[Mulder]

McKinney's mistake was to challenge the ruling power structure in our country.

It's okay to attempt to subvert the Bill of Rights, attack the 2nd amendment, surrender our soveirngity, and engage in all sorts of criminal activity as the politicians that do this are rarely held accountable. (McKinney did most of this too, but that's not why she was removed).

But what's 'not okay' is to challenge our elitist screw-party system.

Most who do this are removed from office (McKinney, Dornan, Traficant, Judge Moore, etc.....). A few renegades, like Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo, are still there, but the GOP is trying to oust them as well. And others who challenge the system, don't even fare that well (see Larry McDonald).

McKinney was used by those who don't want an investigation into 9-11 prior knowledge, which there was plenty of (James Bovard has documented much of it in "Terrorism and Tyranny"). A lot of the 'prior knowledge' stuff was starting to come out, and they used a polarizing figure like McKinney to lead the charge on the investigation. Then they turned on her, and forced her from office to send a signal to others who might want to deviate from the official party line on 9/11.

The end result was the Republicans who had doubts didn't want to be seen on the same side of an issue as a loudmouth Marxist like McKinney. And Democrats who had doubts didn't want to share her fate in being removed from office. It worked like a charm.