The Wellstone Eulogy...written by Bob Shrum on the the Acela Express from Boston Yesterday

Personal Observation | 10/29/2002 | Redleg Duke

[Redleg Duke]

Yesterday, Bob Shrum, noted DemocRAT strategist, hurriedly called contacts, digging up "accomplishments" to include in the eulogy that Tom Harkin is to "deliver from the heart" today at the Wellstone Memorial Service. I sat near him in the First Class Car of the Acela Express from Boston, where he was coaching Shannon O'Brien to be an attack dog, to Newark, where he was scheduled to meet with Lautenburg that evening.

He used a variety of sources. A virtual RAT focus group. Look for such accolades as "campaign finance reform", "saving the family farm from big agri-business" (Can anyone say Tysons Foods?), "saving social security", and of course "prescription drug benefits".

Look for Tom Harkin spewing alligator tears and try to dig up or get out the vote for sympathy.

I listened to his cell phone calls all the way to Newark! It was sickening! These are RATS...It is all about power. To them, while the "early bird gets the worm, the second RAT gets the cheese!"

[Blue Screen of Death]

Look for such accolades as "campaign finance reform", "saving the family farm from big agri-business" (Can anyone say Tysons Foods?), "saving social security", and of course "prescription drug benefits".

It would be in very bad taste to refer to Wellstone as a flaming liberal at this time.

[Z.Hobbs]

Here is a copy of Walter Mondales bio from the Dorsey & Whitney web site.
WALTER F. MONDALE
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1500
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-1498
(612) 340-2600
mondale.walter@dorseylaw.com
Experience
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Partner in the International/Corporate practice group,
1987-1993, 1996-present.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan
1993-1996
Democratic Nominee for President of the United States
1984
Winston & Strawn
Partner in the Washington, D.C. office
1981-1987
Vice President of the United States
1977-1981
United States Senator
1965-1976.
Served on the Finance Committee, Labor and Public Welfare Committee, and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee. Also served as chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity and as chairman of the Intelligence Committee's Domestic Task Force
Minnesota State Attorney General
1960-1964
Private Law Practice in Minneapolis
1956-1960
Nonprofit Boards
Japan Society
Minnesota Public Radio
Nobel Peace Prize Forum
University of Minnesota Foundation - Emeritus
Corporate Boards
BlackRock Funds
Northwest Airlines
UnitedHealth Group
Professional Activities
Served as co-chair, with former Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker, of the independent, bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Project.
Serves on executive committee of the Peace Prize Forum, an annual conference co-sponsored by the Norwegian Nobel Institute and five Midwestern colleges of Norwegian heritage.
Served as President Clinton's special envoy to Indonesia on economic reform (March 1998)
Served as chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1986-1993
Education
University of Minnesota Law School
L.L.B., cum laude, 1956
Served on the law review and as a law clerk in the
Minnesota Supreme Court
University of Minnesota
B.A., 1951
Political Science
Admissions
Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and the State Courts of Minnesota
Honors
Distinguished University Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.

[Redleg Duke]

LOL! I finally got it!

[pankot]

Why would you want to hear the eulogy? It is almost guaranteed to make you puke.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sorry, but its not a private phone conversation if he is speaking in a public place, like a railcar. There is no parallel to the McDermott incidence.

[dirtboy]

Sorry, but its not a private phone conversation if he is speaking in a public place, like a railcar. There is no parallel to the McDermott incidence.

I never made such a comparison - but, once again, this cannot be independently confirmed by Rush or Hannity, so they won't run with it, and, even if they did, the Dems would spin the bejabbers out of it - "The Republicans spy on your conversations - nothing is private with them [blah] [blah] [blah]..."

[let freedom sing]

Look for Tom Harkin

I'm not going to look--demRATs can have their rally and eat it, too.

[Russell Scott]

If the Rats don't repent, and become God fearing honest Americans, who want whats best for America, and not themseleves. If they continue acting like demon driven power hungy liars, they are going to have extremely rough sledding in the coming days. God is sick of the godless trying to run His nation into the ground, and His days of long suffering are quickly running out for the wicked.

Matt 13
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

[Taxman]

The truth will out! Great positioning, Redleg!

Here is what I posted on my first Vanity post last night:

A Call to Arms – Well, to the ballot box next Tuesday, anyway.

I was unaware of the spectacle the Democrats made of themselves last night until I listened to Rush today. I have never heard him declare himself speechless – he admitted he did not have the words to describe the despicable behavior of the Democrats last night at Senator Wellstone's "memorial service."

Sean Hannity was likewise in high dungeon.

I don't want to dwell on the content of (as one of Sean's callers referred to it) "The 2002 Democrat National Convention." What struck me is the opportunity we conservatives have to take back the Senate, big time, as a result of the foolish behavior of the Democrat Party last night.

Here is the point of this little vanity (my first, BTW): The Democrats generated a considerable amount of anger by their churlish behavior last night. Let's translate this anger into Conservative votes next Tuesday.

Sean, having played the audio suggesting that the Democrats should "Win this one for Paul," noted that the Republican rallying cry for Tuesday should be "Win another one for the Gipper."

I think that is a hellofagoodidea!

So, following up on the "Broken Glass Republican" thread, and armed with the certain knowledge that the Democrat Party is a "Clear and Present Danger" to the survival of this Constitutional Republic, let's vow to vote these idiots out of office Tuesday.

The most important thing you can do is ensure that YOU vote next Tuesday. The second most important thing you can do between now and next Tuesday is work to defeat Democrats by organizing a local "Get out the (Republican) Vote" campaign, and ensuring that those who promise to vote the Liberal/Socialist/Marxist low life Bastards out of office get to the polls and do just that.

Contact your local Republican Committeeman/woman and volunteer to make phone calls, set up car pools to your local precinct and whatever else comes to mind to get out Republican voters to the polls..

And your "hook" to energize the voters, particularly those "naysayers" who think their vote does not count, is to briefly describe the despicable behavior of the Democrats at Senator Wellstone's memorial service. One speaker (I believe it was Senator Harkin) practically recited the Communist Manifesto as he described the Socialist agenda the Democrat Party stands for today. I'm doing this from memory (and I was driving on I-95, so I had to divide my attention), but I believe I heard Senator Harkin urge the country to vote Democrat for "Social and Economic Justice." He also urged a Democrat vote for "race, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity" equality.

Those of you who listened to Rush and Sean today will be able to fill in the "rest of the story."

Let me give you just one instance where you can make a difference in the projected outcome of a Senate race: West Virginia went for George W. Bush by 250,000 votes in the 2000 Presidential election. If those 250,000 voters go to the polls on Tuesday and vote for Jay Wolfe, they will retire one of the Liberal/Socialist/Marxist Bastards I referred to in a preceding paragraph.

If West Virginia, why not every state/congressional district where there is a contested Senate or House seat?

Let's Roll!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

You mean Bob Shrum was the lunatic who advised Shannon O'Finneran to smirk, give evasive answers, and act like a total beeyotch all night? Great advice, Bob. You may have just handed the election to Romney.

[spycatcher]

Eulogy for Wellstone
(Daschellus Caesar, Act III, Scene 2)

Friends, Democrats, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come not to bury Wellstone, but to endorse Mondale.
The elections that men win live after them;
The ones they lose are oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Wellstone.
Our party is nothing if not ambitious:
If it were to lose control of the Senate, would be a grievous fault,
And grievously Wellstone trailed in the polls.
Here, under leave of Clinton and the rest--
For Clinton is an honourable man;
Clinton, Kennedy, McAuliffe, Lautenberg;
So are they all, all honourable men (ha ha!)--
Let this not be Wellstone's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But internal polling data says he was going to lose;
And winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
No, therefore, let us rally for Mondale, his successor,
And bring him great victory.
He hath proposed the taxes greatly to increase
Whose ransoms will the general coffers fill:
When that the special interests have cried,
Mondale hath wept with them:
Is this not how the game is played?
Ambition should be made of stern stuff:
And, brother, are we ever ambitious;
Daschle is an honourable man.
You all did see that on C-SPAN
Jim Jeffords presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did did not refuse: now that is ambition, baby!
Yet Daschle says he is not ambitious (who doth he fool?);
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to eulogize poor, dead Wellstone,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You want to keep control of the Senate, right?
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for Wellstone
When you can be out working for a Mondale victory!
Bag the funeral and let's have a rally!
My heart is not in the coffin there with Wellstone,
For I must vote early and often for Mondale.

(Apologies to the Immortal Bard)
Posted by: Michael Morley October 30, 2002 on VodkaPundit

[spycatcher]

More sources confirm Redleg's pre-rally Shrum report:

Democratic operatives planned, engineered Wellstone political rally

[aristeides]

One of my professors once sat at the next table to Hitler's at the Vier Jahreszeiten restaurant in Munich in 1939. He later regretted that he had not assassinated the man at the time.

[aristeides]

Toricelli was givin a choice. Quit, or die. He chose to quit.

Wellstone was presumably given no such choice. There was more than one reason for him to die. Not only was there too much of a chance for the Dems that he would lose the election. But he had also shown that he would sometimes not obey orders, like when he voted against the Iraq resolution. And his death gave the Dems a chance to nationalize the election and energize their flagging leftist base in the name of the dead senator. Just the sort of thing to appeal to the perverse Clintons.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

FReepers are everywhere. We ARE the grassroots media. You rock, dude, er, Duke! :-)

[spycatcher]

All I know is coldly manipulating grieving children, dancing on the guy's fresh corpse, then swinging the dead man around like a rally towel raises suspicions about motives.

[Doctor Raoul]

Shrum is part of the "Democracy Corps" of Shrum, Greenberg and Carville. Like the use of the phrase "mission Accomplished" and "Goon Squads" as a disguise for their brownshirts, the Democrats love acting like Nazis, down to the words they use.

[jocon307]

Just read your post wherein you said "That political hack Shrum is writing this is very good news for Coleman. Add this to the uninviting of Cheney and you have all the makings of a campaign rally. Hard core Dems will eat it up, but it should not play well with the thinking people in Minnesota."

Now, can you give me the winner in the 6th race tomorrow?

Prescient, very good. I was as wrong on Woodstock as you were right about this. And you were right totally, they had a great backlash over this, how great we'll know teusday.

Good Job and Best Regards,

Jessica
jocon307@yahoo.com