Comments on: There Are 2 Ways to Look At This Ted Kaufman Thing

By: Geezer

Geezer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:00:36 +0000

Thanks, Nancy. You beat me to it. Oh those pesky laws.

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:11:19 +0000

I guess it will either be [Taliban Light] O’Donnell again or perhaps Copeland.
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Oh lawdy. Make it Copeland, please.

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:07:45 +0000

there should have been a “special election”
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O’course, sometimes we actually ‘follow statute’ Lizzy. Move to another state or change the books, deary.

By: Nancy Willing

Nancy Willing — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:06:00 +0000

John Tobin is so dang smart.

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:41:22 +0000

Anyone notice how much Senator-designate Kaufman resembles Carper? Eerie.

By: John Tobin

John Tobin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:20:58 +0000

Stranger things have happened .
Remember the Reeses commercial where the two people are eating candy and one guy complains over the other guy tainting his chocolate with peanut butter and the other complains about having his peanut butter tainted with chocolate until they realize that what they had not expected would work(peanut & chocolate combined)was actually really good?
Maybe this will be like that?
You seemed to be really down on spin,but perception is a pretty big part of politics.

By: jason330

jason330 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:42:23 +0000

Aye Carumba.

Is it charitable to say that Minner did the right thing by accident while following orders?

By: John Tobin

John Tobin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:36:37 +0000

Joe Biden got 64.7% of the vote in 2008 and won every six years since 1972. That tells me, rightly or wrongly, the voters have repeatedly voted for someone with Joe Biden’s voting record. Who better to extend that voting record (which the voters have supported over 36 years) for 2 years than the guy who was his chief of staff and long-time loyalist?
To diverge very far from that seems like you would be snubbing the will of the voters. Whether Gov Minner’s motives were this or not, the consequence of her action is to endorse the will of the people.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:11:04 +0000

Jason,

How can you compare Ted Kaufman to LBJ? LBJ later won the presidency in his own right and wasn’t just filling someone’s shoes.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:25:40 +0000

There will be a special election in 2010, liz.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:18:52 +0000

If there is really democracy at work in this State, and if we had leaders who truly cared about our citizens, there should have been a “special election”.

Who knows who might have come forward that is none of the above, whom we could have voted for, because they would work to serve the people, not the freakin parties.

By: jason330

jason330 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:59:49 +0000

Will the Republicans have their act together enough to run a real race in 2010?

No.

Petey,

Who knows. This could be a great pick for a bunch of reason’s (one of which might be that Beau Biden would make a great Senator) but let’s not play games about the motives for this pick.

By: PeteyP

PeteyP — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:44:26 +0000

Easy on the overblown rhetoric. To say nothing of RAM’s speech, neither of your two points is “correct” so far as the choices (divorced of motive) as concerned.

We can say that there is a “correct” and “incorrect” way to look at RAM’s motive. Perhaps this is what you meant. But there is, in actuality, a legitimate difference of opinion about whether a Governor should choose a caretaker Senator and let the people choose the one that they want. (There are progressives clamoring for the Illinois Governor to do the same thing.)

Whether the result is Senator Biden, part 2, is up to the voters.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:38:16 +0000

Good question, WTFC. Will the Republicans have their act together enough to run a real race in 2010. I guess it will either be O’Donnell again or perhaps Copeland.

By: WTFC

WTFC — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:34:50 +0000

The other side is will the Republicans be in the game or not?

Yes, the seat will be a likely Biden seat but if the GOP can keep Dave Crossan away from the race there is a chance.

My guess is Taliban Light O’Donnell will try again. That would be a waste of time.