Posted on 10/30/2002 7:17:09 PM PST by The Wizard
Just imagine - people like these are allowed to freely roam the streets of New Jersey.
The Laut does nothing but attack Forrester.
Now it's closing statement time. Greenie guy again.
Well, they get their voters from the graveyard, why not get their candidates from the fossil strata. Democrats: the party of the dead.
No the idiot in the three piece suit is the Green candidate. The Socialist candidate is the guy who has not ever worn a tie and hangs his clothes up on the floor of his studio apartment in Jersey City. He also cuts his hair himself.
I offer few direct quotes:
Lautenberg: "The right to bear arms should be slightly curtailed".
Pason, the Socialist: " I hate guns. Guns kill workers".
Glick, the Green guy: " Good unions could have saved Enron."
"Raise taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the workers."
"If we go to war with Iraq, how will there be money to clean up the environment?"
Pason, the Socialist: "Capitalism doesn't work".
To fix the economy, " Massive public work projects, cut defense by 50%".
Safe to say, Lautenberg's incomprehensible responses won't hurt him, and Forrester, while he gives direct answers, just isn't impressive enough to light a fire under voters.
Now the one on one, Lautenberg/Forrester, 30 minute smackdown is about to start. I sure hope Forrester sparkles.
A U.S. Supreme Court battle could still be ahead. But if the 78-year old multi-millionaire does get on the ballot legally, the Forrester team could have a field day with Lautenberg's radical liberal record.
With a war against Iraq looming, for example, Lautenberg is vulnerable to the charge that he's a wimp on national security.
In 1991, he voted against authorizing military force against Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. He predicted "tens of thousands of American casualties," a new U.S. draft and warned the U.S. could end up destroying Kuwait in the process of trying to liberate it.
In 1984 -- at the height of the Cold War -- he voted for Ted Kennedy's "nuclear freeze" proposal.
He voted for the Intelligence Oversight Act of 1988 to restrict the conduct of foreign covert operations, and voted in 1992 to cut the U.S. intelligence budget by $1 billion.
He's consistently voted against building missile defenses to protect the homeland or U.S. troops and allies, and in 1991 supported an amendment that would have cut defense spending by a whopping $80 billion.
Lautenberg is also vulnerable to the charge he's soft on terrorism.
On October 26, 1989, for example, the Senate voted on a bill introduced by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) to impose the death penalty for terrorists who kill U.S. citizens in foreign countries. The bill passed 79-20. But Lautenberg actually voted against it.
Then, on February 20, 1991, Lautenberg voted for an amendment to rescind the death penalty for terrorists who murder Americans in the U.S. or abroad and instead impose life in prison.
That amendment was defeated 25 to 72, but joining Lautenberg against the death penalty for terrorists was none other than Democrat Senators Ted Kennedy, Paul Wellstone, Tom Harkin, John Kerry and Al Gore.
Imagine for a moment that bill had passed with the help of Lautenberg, Wellstone and Gore. Imagine then that we catch Osama bin Laden alive. Imagine then that instead of electrocuting bin Laden to death -- or giving him a lethal injection -- for masterminding the death of thousands of innocent Americans, we instead were required to put him in a Holiday Inn-style prison where he could watch cable television, write a bestselling book, and be interviewed on "60 Minutes."
In 1988, Lautenberg voted against the death penalty for "drug kingpins" who commit murders or order the murder of others...
Woah. Where?
Let's see the Forrester / Louseyberg debate now on c-SPAN
Are losers told to leave?
The Laut should be next...
You know, after his continued hooey, I would tend to agree as well! That Green guy is pretty scarry!!
She's not ugly, but there are loads of infobabes on CNBC and Fox who are hotter. Terry Keenan, Laurie Dhue, and most of the babes on CNBC but Suze who isn't so hot and is annoying.
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