ego74 said:Mondale (former vice pres./'84 dem. nominee) didn't beat Coleman, but Minny will elect Franken???? OKAY
They'd have a better chance if they ran Jesse Ventura
cut across shorty said:I would think you would know this, but reading some of your posts it would be foolish to make that assumption. Mondale was a last minute replacement for incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died in a tragic plane crash in the days leading up to the election. Coleman, acting on advice from John Ashcroft (who lost his senate race to Mel Carnahan who had died under nearly identical circumstances), decided to lay low while the Republican noise machine disgustingly spread a bunch of lies about the Wellstone memorial service. Given that the Wellstone campaign was grieving and basically devastated by his death along with the death of several members of his staff, they weren't able to effectively refute the lies. Making the statement that Mondale couldn't beat Coleman is more than misleading and quite frankly a poor reflection on your knowledge of events (Not to mention the FACT that Jesse Ventura isn't a Democrat).
cut across shorty said:I would think you would know this, but reading some of your posts it would be foolish to make that assumption. Mondale was a last minute replacement for incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died in a tragic plane crash in the days leading up to the election. Coleman, acting on advice from John Ashcroft (who lost his senate race to Mel Carnahan who had died under nearly identical circumstances), decided to lay low while the Republican noise machine disgustingly spread a bunch of lies about the Wellstone memorial service. Given that the Wellstone campaign was grieving and basically devastated by his death along with the death of several members of his staff, they weren't able to effectively refute the lies. Making the statement that Mondale couldn't beat Coleman is more than misleading and quite frankly a poor reflection on your knowledge of events (Not to mention the FACT that Jesse Ventura isn't a Democrat).
ego74 said:yeah, i remember the Memorial Service very well, and obviously the people of Minnesota remembered too when they went to the ballot box. It was so distasteful, even former PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER JESSE VENTURA (who knows plenty about distasteful, he used to work for Vince Mcmahon), walked out disgusted.