Minnesota Debate (Where's Walter?) Now on C-SPAN

[William McKinley]

Tune in now. Coleman against two other candidates.

[William McKinley]

The Green ticket candiate is blind. Interesting.

[Kahuna]

You gadda be kiddin! How does he know he's Green?

[dhfnc]

I guess Walter thinks he is above all this.

[hellinahandcart]

Baahaha...

[hellinahandcart]

Empty chair visible?

[KeatsforFirstDog]

I'm watching it...we can't be the only ones???

[SamAdams76]

It don't look good when a senatorial candidate misses his own debate. Pathetic.

[Cagey]

Where's Walto?

[KeatsforFirstDog]

It makes me sick to my stomach that Fritzo thinks he's too good to debate...

[Timesink]

Has he mentioned that Fritz is a COWARD for no showing up, and how it's just the latest in a long like of RATS taking the voters of Minnesota for granted?

I do notice that the three candidates there are actually having a civilized, friendly debate, since there's no RATS around to intentionally throw bombs.

[William McKinley]

Don't know.

Moderator says Mondale said he will work to repeal part of the Bush tax cut. Asks for Coleman's opinion. Coleman says that the when he was Mayor, everyone came asking for more money. More money for police, for firemen, for parks, for libraries, for streets. He said they raised more money--by holding down taxes, which stimulated business and thereby generated more revenue. Rejects the idea that the Bush tax cut costs money in the long term.

IP candidate says he would repeal the Bush tax cut, but use the money for deficit reduction.

Green party guy (wearing red, fittingly) now talking about giving away more.

[isthisnickcool]

Mondale can't take the stress. The Dems. are probably praying he doesn't kick the bucket before the election.

[Paul Atreides]

I think Walter is still dancing on Paul's grave.

[William McKinley]

No, looks like they did not do the chair.

Green guy now talking about a new "wealth tax".

God, I hope he pulls votes away from Fritz on the left.

[Kahuna]

You are the only one...Fritzzy is at a fund raiser in Minneapolis this evening chatting directly to the Minneasoootan fund raisers ( I mean voters) LOL!

[Timesink]

Man, this is so laid back, they're breaking for commercials!

[KeatsforFirstDog]

argh...I hate living in Minnesota sometimes...they have a Green Candidate (socialist), Independent candidate (socialist), Democratic candidate (socialist), and moderate Republican....

[luv2ndamend]

Empty chair visible?

Even if he was there it would be EMPTY!! LOL

[William McKinley]

GOD is Mondale's commercial BOOOOOORRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGG. He looks like he missed his morning Geritol and someone slipped him a valium.

[mikeb704]

Give the guy a break. He's out with Tommy Daschle, beating the bushes for the typical Democrat voter. . .

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[johniegrad]

You gotta be shitting me. Mondale won't show for the debate but there's his effin corpse spouting off on a commercial. What a piece of dung.

[KeatsforFirstDog]

yes, and his mug was shown on local tv going to Wellstone's campaign headquarters less than 30 minutes after word of the crash hit CNN

[William McKinley]

Highlighting that Mondale did not show up. Good.

Star Tribune now asking if they would have voted the same way as Wellstone on the Iraq question. IP says "yes".

[concerned about politics]

They can't bring Mondale out. He has no idea what's going on- seriously. He NEEDS a script written for him. His answer to every question is "I vote the same way Paul Welstone did."
He can't speak, either. It takes five minutes to say one word.
He seems really, really old.
I don't think he could make it another 6 years unless he takes it easy.
Democrats are going to hide him, and count on the sympathy vote. They can't take the chance of getting him out too much.
He's just a pawn. If he makes it through this election, I'll bet on Arkansaside within the year.

[hellinahandcart]

Yeah, I though someone would say something like "No, the empty chair's at a fundraiser instead".

[pke]

Walter's senility has kicked in again and he is in the beauty shop next door to the studio sitting under a hair dryer wondering why so many women are in the debate.

[KeatsforFirstDog]

word is that he will debate only once...on Monday night before the election

[Petronski]

The Green ticket candiate is blind. Interesting.

Physiologically AND politically.

[johniegrad]

Just in time to lay some sort of a smelly turd (lie) about Coleman and then run.

[hellinahandcart]

Am I horrible? The Greenie said he wanted a "strengthened and revivified UN, out of the control of the US and Britain" and I just wanted to tip his chair over.

[Paul Atreides]

I guess, what with Jimmah in the limelight, he thought he could grab some for himself. Do they actually think that people will look back on the Carter years with fondness?

[KeatsforFirstDog]

Norm is looking pretty good :)

[Kozak]

Empty chair visible?

An empty chair would be a better debator then Mondale anyway.....

[William McKinley]

The Red/Green guy also (well, suprise suprise!) thinks Wellstone voted correctly on Iraq.

Good. Fritz said he too would have voted that way. Hey antiwar one-issue voters, you have choices! he he he

Coleman- wants peace, thinks this was the way to get the UN to act, thinks that without this, Saddam would continue flouting UN resolutions. Thinks the path we took is the best path to peace.

Gun ownership question now.

[dhfnc]

Yeah, I though someone would say something like "No, the empty chair's at a fundraiser instead".

The way I look at it is an 'empty chair' is very representative of Walter.

[KeatsforFirstDog]

Gun question now...

[Paul Atreides]

Look for him to stand up there asking people to keep Wellstone alive, by voting for Mondull. It will be a shameless tugging at everyone's heartstrings.

[William McKinley]

Yeah, he does. Unfortunately he sounds like he should be running against Hillary in New York than running in Minnesota. He must not be a native son.

[Petronski]

Tricomo really p!sses me off. Damn I hate the 'Green' party. What a freak.

[PJ-Comix]

The Green ticket candiate is blind. Interesting.

The Green Candidate from NJ, Ted Glick, also seemed like he was blind.....or was that just a bad squint he had?

[luv2ndamend]

LOL

[Consort]

A question for the blind candidate:

[KeatsforFirstDog]

they're not even showing mondale's so-called town meetings because he spaces out when he answers questions...

[Constitutional Patriot]

"Fritzzy is at a fund raiser in Minneapolis this evening chatting directly to the Minneasoootan fund raisers "

What a crock!! What the hell is the point of attending fund raisers 5 days before the election? Is Mondale going to raise money for 4 days and then spend it all on election day?!?!? Complete BS. The little left wing swine is hiding from the public. If the public was more aware of what a stiff Mondale is, the press would not be able to get away with embellishing about how overwhelmingly popular he is.

[hellinahandcart]

Okay, now I want to kick the chair out from underneath him.

And I'm so glad to hear a blind guy won't have a gun in his house. Lodge.

[johniegrad]

Someone tell the Greenie that, if he could see it, the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. Maybe it's available in braille. Perhaps the "whole thing with guns" could be more understandable to the Greenie if they were made with recyclable vegetable products.

[South40]

Rewind to 1984. There were two presidential debates that year between President Reagan and Walter Mondale, the former Vice President under Jimmy Carter.

Mondale had done reasonably well in the first debate on Oct. 7 and was looking forward to gaining ground in the second one on Oct. 22. He wanted to exploit the age issue. President Reagan was 73 years old when he ran for a second term. Would Mondale be able to score points?


In one of the great moments in presidential debate history, Reagan stole the issue from Mondale when he looked at the audience and the other candidate and jokingly promised not to "…exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." The issue was taken away and would never return. The voters recognized Reagan as witty, confident, and presidential. Fritz was shown for that ass that he is.

Election results:

Reagan (R) - Electoral Votes: 525

Mondale (D) - Electoral Votes: 13

[William McKinley]

IP- for ballistic gun registry. G- supports this too, but he doesn't like how preoccupied we are with guns, thinks the people should enter into a dialog with the government over why we love guns, thinks we need to rethink the 2nd amendment.

Coleman- as a former Mayor, I learned the best way to handle gun violence is to be tough with criminals. Thinks RKBA is an important part of being an American, doesn't think we should talk about gun ownership just as for hunters.

Has concerns about government collecting data about people, says we need to respect privacy.

[KeatsforFirstDog]

Yeah...he's a native New Yorker, I think...Jewish married to a Catholic, I *think*