[TransOxus]

RINOs have taken over the the Republican party. Coleman should only stop running ads for a couple of days and then get back to campaigning. Unbelievable how wimpy the Republican leadership is. Read the history how Republican Party in its beginnings when it was a new party. There was no namby-pampy campaigning then - they had had no qualms about pulling fast ones or hitting back hard when the RATs did everything unethical. And they succeeded. Somewhere during the FDR era, they stopped fighting hard to win. Only times they did and showed it succeeded were during Reagan and Newt's times. Remember how the RATs went into a tizzy and frothed impotently. Stand and fight for what you believe in -the American Ideal- and voters will respond to the party who cares by showing the fighting spirit to defend what is right.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

The Coleman people should say that they will celebrate Wellstone's life-by resuming the campaign-it's what he would have wanted, he believed in American politics and the Constitution,etc-make a positive out of a negative and do it,in Wellstone's honor.And donating 5 or 10k to a scholarship fund, in his name-wouldn't hurt either. The Republicans must NOT let the Democrats get away with- " Our candidate died, ergo-we deserve the seat, cancel the election!"

[Common Tator]

Read the history how Republican Party in its beginnings when it was a new party.

Yes but the Republican party at its start was the leftist party. Strongest amoung the left leaning. Republicans in the early years were for a very strong federal government and weak state govenrments. It was Lincoln who suspended habeas corpus. It was Repubicans that treated the killing of Lincoln as a FEDERAL crime. It was the Repubican partyof the 1800s that was the high taxes and lots of government control. The Repubicans fought a war to preserve the supremacy of the Federal government.... They called it the Union ...But that is another name for the supremacy the federal government over our lives ... of don't cha know. The UNION was the federal government wasn't it? When Lincoln said preserve the union, he did not mean pickle it.. did he? Formaldahyde it? Grow it?

In 1870 you would have been a Democrat unless you are really a liberal. The leftists in the early days of the Republican party were all Republicans. Democrats were the conservatives.

Someone once asked the difference between the policies of Republican Teddy Roosevelt and Democrat Franklin Roosevlet.

I replied.

The biggest difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt was their last name.