"We had to kill off Wellstone to get it."« Thread Started on May 23, 2004, 12:13am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Subject: "We had to kill off Wellstone to get it." sez college Republicans. How clever. This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.gw-bush, alt.politicsDate: 2004-02-23 15:10:42 PST There's more from the bizzaro world of the College Republicans thisweek!That's right - prepping the next generation of right-wing bigots andfuture Clear Channel talk show hosts is a full-time job, and it takesdedication, courage, and an inherent ability to slander the dead.At a meet-the-candidate night last week, Mike Clement (representingRepublican congressional candidate Mike Bridgewater) was chatting withthe audience about Norm Coleman's Senate victory in Minnesota, when,according to the Salt Lake Tribune, an audio tape of the meetingpicked up an unknown "Republican gadfly" saying, "We had to kill offWellstone to get it."He was, of course, referring to Senator Paul Wellstone, who waskilled, along with most of his family, in a plane crash just beforethe 2002 elections.Nice, real nice.I've got a quick tip actually for any College Republicans who might bereading this - just mention in your thesis that Wellstone's planecrash was Bill Clinton's fault, and you'll graduate summa cum laude.