I’m not surprised at all that Stevens is off the hook now.

The Palin cult of personality is just as bad as the Obama’s. She is a good looking woman and that’s the only reason she has a following. I remember conservative laughing at The View ladies for commenting about Obama’s looks. This is no different.

Chekote on April 1, 2009 at 9:51 AM

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I want her as President because she embodies the conservative principles I believe in.
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True beauty comes from within. I was in lust with Hilary for about two minutes, by the end of the interview I was udderly disgusted with myself for ever thinking she was so much as marginally attractive.

Stevens was a rotten public servant, but prosecutorial misconduct must not go unpunished.

myrenovations on April 1, 2009 at 12:06 PM

Uncle Ted was very good for the State of Alaska. Alaska has one, that’s right only one, congressman, and the only way Alaska even had a voice at the national level was because of Ted Stevens.

The charges were completely bogus. He didn’t hide a thing from anyone. The jerk from Veco who testified against him was given a sweetheart deal to do so–he was headed for jail already for other misconduct, but turned on Ted because he could get a lighter sentence. The prosecutors were filthy, and manufactured evidence to suit their case.

Now Alaska is stuck with Begich, who is as big a hack as his father was back in the day, and is extremely junior. How does that help anyone but the democratic leadership?

Just wait until they come for you.

newton on April 1, 2009 at 3:31 PM

Nice try.

The Lead Prosecutor on the case was a Bush appointee, and there is no way a sitting U.S. Senator would ever be prosecuted without the authorization of the U.S. Attorney General.

No soup for you!

The Palin cult of personality is just as bad as the Obama’s. She is a good looking woman and that’s the only reason she has a following. I remember conservative laughing at The View ladies for commenting about Obama’s looks. This is no different.

Chekote on April 1, 2009 at 9:51 AM

You just hate her because she didn’t kill her baby.

benny shakar on April 1, 2009 at 3:00 PM

Nice try.

You seem to conveniently forget that the DOJ has been thoroughly infested with Democrats since the 90s. Bush had a chance to kick them out, but since he wanted to be “bipartisan”, he did nothing in that respect. Thus, the results you see today.

Its cute that the paranoid political conspiracy theorists among you (i.e., 97% of hotair readers) already forgot that it was the BUSH Justice Department that prosecuted Uncle Ted.

Hmm?

It’s simply this: Mr. Senator For Life knows every detail about every little bone fragment hiding in the Senate and House skeleton closets.

My guess is that he made mention he was going to write a memoir about his tenure in Congress. Complete with names, dates, and dollar amounts.

Statement from DoJ: “This is not the crooked Senator we’re looking for; move along.”

Don’t law and order conservatives hate when criminals get off on “technicalities.” Oh wait, that’s just when it happens for black people.

DeathToMediaHacks on April 1, 2009 at 12:53 PM

Lol…nothing like a little hyperbole in the morning.

These same people got away with staging a raid on Curt Weldon’s house just before the election in 2006. Anyone who thinks the DNC is not giving marching orders to the career lawyers and investigators at DOJ and the FBI is naive.

Well, why the hell not? The Democrats got what they wanted, they can afford to let this go now, …
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Too late. The damage is done.

He doesn’t have the Senate seat. That was the whole purpose of it: to see a Republican lose a Senate seat. That’s all.

Mission Accomplised, DOJ. Right? Right?

The Palin cult of personality is just as bad as the Obama’s. She is a good looking woman and that’s the only reason she has a following. I remember conservative laughing at The View ladies for commenting about Obama’s looks. This is no different.

Chekote on April 1, 2009 at 9:51 AM

The difference is that most of her fans actually know what she stands for and what she thinks…as much as you can with any politician. I’d hazard a guess and say that most of her most ardent supporters love the conservative part of her nature more than her looks. So no…her looks are not the only reason she has fans.

None of the airheads on the View knew or cared about his policy positions. And I’d say that most of his fans that voted for the cute guy had no idea what his politics were either…just that he looked and sounded good. He was just a vessel for peoples goofy Utopian dreams.

And all the noise I heard from the catty liberal women I work with was all about her looks…bunch of green-eyed, shallow beasts. I’d say a lot of her detractors hate her because she’s attractive.