Jul 31 2008
Ted Stevens is a Douche
A quick national interlude, but I’ll toss is Sen. Dole’s name to make it relevant…
WASHINGTON - Several GOP colleagues of indicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens distanced themselves politically Wednesday by donating campaign contributions from him to charity.
Stevens, meanwhile, returned to work in the Senate, actively participating in a committee bill drafting session and casting votes on the floor, where he received warm embraces and gestures of personal support from several colleagues.
At the same time, at least five Republicans up for re-election shed contributions from Stevens and his political action committee. They included: John Sununu, R-N.H.; Gordon Smith, R-Ore.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C.; and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
The shaky support for Stevens was evident in the wake of accusations he lied about accepting gifts from oil services contractor Veco Corp. His indictment on seven felony counts adds to his party’s already bleak electoral prospects in November, and could cost the GOP a Senate seat that should be safe.
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Sam the Admin said it best over on SavetheGOP.com: Ted Stevens is a cancer on the GOP that needs to be excised ASAP. To that end…
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While Stevens has vowed to fight charges and, through a spokesman, to move “full steam ahead” with his re-election bid, he’s received little support from Alaska’s Republican governor and no comment yet from his own GOP leader in the Capitol.
Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, chairman of the campaign committee for Senate Republicans, declined to restate his earlier endorsement of Stevens, who is running for re-election to a seventh full Senate term, in a six-way Aug. 26 GOP primary.
“There’s an electoral process in place and a legal process in place, and we will let the process play out,” Ensign said.
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Y’know, I like Sen. Ensign, but I’m calling B.S. on him. The National Republican Party has taken sides in Senate primaries -often the wrong side- way too often. They supported Humphries over Coburn in OK. back in ‘04; they supported Specter over Toomey in PA., also in ‘04; they supported that spineless squish Mel Martinez in Florida in ‘04 too. But now, when you have an indicted political hack dragging down your ticket and possibly costing you a state, Alaska, that you should NEVER lose, Ensign won’t step up and do what needs to be done.
Sen. Ensign, please, for the love of God, freedom, and the American way- reach down, squeeze whatcha got, use whatever powers you have at your disposal, and get this old clown out of that Senate race!!!
