jvf - 27 March 2008 09:14 PM
Rocketman ~(Ä)~ - 27 March 2008 09:53 AM
RJ: “God help us all if this guy gets elected. How did he ever get elected to the Senate?”
VERY personal attacks on his VERY qualified opponent that made him drop out.
You mean the guy who forced his wife to go to strip clubs?
Can you say “perjury?” Here’s what Wikipedia says about the incident you so roughly mischaracterize. I use Wikipedia because it is a quick summary that would take me too long to pull together from other, journalistic sources:
Five years later, when Jack Ryan’s Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released. Both Jeri and Jack agreed to make their divorce records public, but not the custody records, claiming that their release could be harmful to their son.
On June 22, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider agreed to release the custody files; the decision generated much controversy because it went against both parents’ direct request and because it generally reversed the early decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child. It was revealed that, six years previously, Jeri had accused Jack Ryan of asking her to perform sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. Jeri Ryan described one as “a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."[3] Jack Ryan denied these allegations. Although Jeri Ryan refused to comment on the matter during the campaign, the document disclosure led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois (which was eventually won by Barack Obama).
Jeri Ryan made these incredible charges as part of divorce proceedings. If she had retracted the claims in response to the Democratic dirty trick getting the judge to open sealed records, she would have been charged with perjury.
Meanwhile, while Rebublicans are hyperventilating about Samantha Power and Jeremiah Wright, Rockets are raining down on the Green Zone, Iraq is on the brink of full scale civil war despite the “success” of the surge”, the US dollar is fast becoming a third world currency, and our economy is floundering. And your nominee doesn’t know thing one about who’s who in Iraq, but wants us to stay there for 100 years nonetheless.
Absolutely clueless.
Gee, how do you drive from home to work and return without the guidance of Democratic propaganda? Must be difficult.
