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George W. Bush seems to have driven his political opponents nuts. Howard Dean's reference to the "most interesting theory" that President Bush might have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attack on the United States suggests that Dean has gone around the bend. But Dean is in good company with many of his fellow Democrats. Former Vice President and Democratic elder statesman Walter Mondale has joined the crowd, although he distinguished himself with spectacularly bad timing. Mondale presided over a program devoted to discussion of the Bush administration's foreign policy at Macalester College on Dec. 12, the day before American forces...

Walter Mondale and Zbignew Brzezinski savage the War on Terrorism -- on the eve of its greatest triumph. The December 13 edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press carries an account of Walter Mondale's Bush-bashing conclave at Macalester College (on December 12th) that is more detailed than the Minneapolis Star Tribune's, linked below. The Pioneer Press story by Kate Parry is "Mondale jabs Bush's 'radical' foreign policy." Credit the Pioneer Press with contacting a Bush administration spokesman to respond to the conclave's demented exhibition of Bush derangement syndrome. The Pioneer Press leads with an astounding quote from Mondale, and buries...

This looks to me like a deja vu presidential election, with the Democratic candidates all resembling their party's past losers and President Bush setting himself up for a 1972- or 1984-style landslide. Leading the Democrats, we have former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, reprising a militant anti-war role previously played by Sen. George McGovern (S.D.), who carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia in 1972 against President Richard Nixon. Next in line is Rep. Richard Gephardt (Mo.), who closely resembles 1984 candidate Walter Mondale, the tax-raising favorite of trade unions and other Democratic interest groups, who carried only Minnesota and...

A friend in New Hampshire who attended one of Dean's campaign rallies out of curiosity, commented that he cannot remember a situation where he saw so many angry and resentful white people. In a recent speech, Dean compared the situation of Americans today, to that of Americans during the Revolutionary War, in that in both eras, America was under the rule of oppressive kings named George. Dean's political campaigning style sounded familiar. I scratched my head and tried to figure out which past politician had the style of Dean. Then it occurred to me...of course...George Wallace in '68. Dean is...

<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Senator John F. Kerry pledged yesterday to lead a filibuster in the US Senate to block the appointment of any Supreme Court nominee who opposes the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision.</p> <p>''There are three words that ought to motivate everybody to guarantee that we have maximum output in this election in 2004. They are simple: the Supreme Court,'' the Massachusetts Democrat told a meeting of party leaders in Minnesota, the longtime home of the late Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who authored the 1973 decision.</p>

<p>The 2004 Democratic presidential campaign is taking on the trappings of the 1984 contest. There's a glut of candidates - eight then, nine now. They're starting to spend much of their time traveling from one debate to another courting different party constituencies at these political "cattle shows."</p>

<p>Former Vice President Walter Mondale and colleagues from what they called the "high tide" of liberalism in the mid-1960s gathered Wednesday to celebrate those halcyon days and to take some swipes at President Bush, whom they accused of trying to undo the progress they made.</p>

In Oregon, when those Republicans, allegedly protectors of the family from Big Brother, finally took control of the House of Representatives in 1991 the House Speaker appointed a "Children's Care Team" and in the 1993 legislature bills were introduced and passed subsequently establishing those innocent sounding foot-in-the-door "pilot programs".Family Resource Centers in schools have been the result of receiving federal grants as a part of the Goals 2000 Educate America Act. These "centers" serve as the treatment arm of the entire delivery system from abortions to sleep overs for parents and children with sleeping bags in tow as was the...

NewsMax.com's religion editor Fr. Mike Reilly notes an eerie similarity between the coming Israeli elections and last year's U.S. Senate race in New Jersey. "Israel's main opposition party, facing disaster in next week's election against Ariel Sharon, is considering dumping its candidate for prime minister," reported Uri Dan last week in the New York Post. Amram Mitzna, the Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister, is under pressure to step aside in favor of elder statesman Shimon Peres. Evidently polls indicate that Peres would be a formidable opponent to Sharon, as opposed to Mitzna, who is a political lightweight. But Mitzna,...

"Israel's main opposition party, facing disaster in next week's election against Ariel Sharon, is considering dumping its candidate for prime minister," reports Uri Dan in today's New York Post. Amram Mitzna, the Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister, is under pressure to step aside in favor of elder statesman Shimon Peres. Evidently polls indicate that Peres would be a formidable opponent to Sharon, as opposed to Mitzna, who is a political lightweight. But Mitzna, a dove who is inexperienced in national politics, declared, "I'm here to stay." Too bad a certain New Jersey Senator didn't show the same courage. Isn't...

If Mondale had won in 84 I believe the Soviet Union would still be alive today as would their rule of Eastern Europe. Gorbachev would have been welcomed as a God to American liberals and offered loans and money to keep their empire in Eastern Europe and his power in Russia by the Liberals! We would have pulled our missles out of Western Europe and the Soviet Union would be alive today with western capital financing their corrupt rule!

<p>Minnesota Republicans said Tuesday that they made the greatest election gains of any state party in the nation last week, picking up the governor's and state auditor's offices, one seat each in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, and 15 seats in the Legislature.</p>

<p>The market for secondhand items from Sen. Paul Wellstone's campaign is heating up on EBay.</p> <p>As of yesterday afternoon, there were more than 60 items for sale, including a program from his memorial service, which had a high bid of more than $30..</p>

Excerpt from a long tick-tock on the Senatorial election in Minnesota. See earlier thread: "13 Days." The Republicans are the stupid party no more. This is adroit politicking, and takes extreme discipline to carry off. Coleman did it. Even as he drives to the Republican strategy meeting, (Vin) Weber tries to think clinically, to "establish a data base line." An eerily similar tragedy occurred just two years earlier in the Missouri Senate race. Democrat Mel Carnahan and his son died in a plane crash three weeks before the election. Carnahan's name stayed on the ballot and -- with the governor...

<p>Norm Coleman is at a loggers' rally. Walter Mondale is at a political fundraiser. Paul Wellstone is airborne.</p> <p>Everything is about to change.</p> <p>At a luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis, a colleague tells Minneapolis attorney David Lillehaug of reports that a plane chartered by the Wellstone campaign has crashed.</p>

Walter Mondale, speaking graciously to a roomful of disappointed supporters last week, made a stunning statement–at least as far as American politics is concerned. "I take responsibility for this result. It's on my shoulders," he said. "This is the way it should be." Let's compare this adult reaction with the post-election statement made by Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe. "If the Republicans had an edge over us . . . it was tactical rather than ideological," he complained, and then went on to whine about a popular GOP president who had the temerity to campaign for his own candidates. Then...

<p>Rick Kahn, the eulogist for U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone who ignited a firestorm of protest after his impassioned (and some said partisan) memorial speech, does not regret his words that night, saying they were not a political rallying call but a cry from the heart.</p>

ST. PAUL, MINN. (Reuters) - Former Vice President Walter Mondale conceded defeat on Wednesday in the Minnesota race for the U.S. Senate, sending Republican Norm Coleman to Congress and giving President Bush's Republicans at least a two-seat margin in the chamber. "A few minute ago I called Senator-elect Norm Coleman to congratulate him on his success," Mondale told supporters. Only days ago, Mondale had stepped into the highly competitive race after Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash while campaigning for re-election. Mondale was considered a strong contender after he was chosen by Democrats to replace Wellstone who died...

Looking at MN Secretary of State Office website, I see that the late Paul Wellstone has garnered 11,766 at this point, easily enough to make up the difference between Sen. Coleman and Still-A-Loser Mondale. Expect litigation, here, folks.

At 6AM eastern, KDKA radio Pittsburgh reports COleman confrimed winner over Fritz Mondale in Minnesota...