Actually, though, moron, it’s up to the voters of Missouri. They’re probably going to elect Mel Carnahan. He can’t serve in the Senate, unfortunately, so the State of Missouri’s constition requires the Governor to appoint a replacement.
He has already named a replacement, in the event that one needs to be placed in the seat. It’s Carnahan’s wife. I’m pretty damn sure that she’s probably going to be just like he would be in the Senate. So, life goes on. She’ll probably be replaced in the 2002 special election.
You have several options:
Live with it.
Work to amend the State constitution.
Vote for Ashcroft.
Go crawl under a rock and stay there until you starve to death.
I’m hoping you choose #4.
Oh, and if you don’t want incompetent people deciding things for you for the next few years, for the love of Cecil, don’t vote for Dubya.
In techchick’s defense, she never called you a pimple. She did, however, call you an “obviously on crack person”, someone who had “gone off the deep end,” “asshole like,” and someone surpassing a “fire bomb waiting to explode.”
All of which I agree with, but she never called you a pimple. That’s libel.
Not that you aren’t one. Even squishy baby frog Alphagene could pop your little puss bag with one hand tied behind the keyboard.
You wanna rant? Rant. But you bring your crap down to the pit, and you’re gonna surface covered with shit from every direction.
Here’s my piece of feces, dug out especially for you: I’m absofuckingamazed that you even bother to read Cecil’s column. Or realize who he is. He fights ignorance. He fights you. Because when truth is spouted, you’re too busy clap clap clapping away a chauvanistic response using your two inch dick as a typing tool to even bother listening. Fuck you, the horse you rode in on, and your mother. Oh wait…I repeat myself.
Oh, and I can’t wait for the jokes on my name. Ender? As in rear end? As in underwear? I’m laughing already…
If you knew anything, which, obviously you don’t, you’d realise that my sig is a result of a bet I lost with the quite esteemed poster named Satan (and I can’t wait until he peeks in here to get a piece of you). So, leave my sig out of this. I can’t wait to get back to my usual sig, which will be in about an hour if we keep going at it.
What bullshit am I agreeing to? The following of constitutionalist procedures? That’s a good thing.
We live in a society where we have to work within the system as much as we prefer things to “go our way”. If you are so pissed off about it I don’t recommend attacking those that give you facts, it does nothing.
You are attacking the wrong people here, if you feel so damn passionate about the process then get off your ass and send word to your states government and get it changed.
When I posted my first response I was under the mistaken impression that Origato was not a raving lunatic. Now that that fact has come to my attention, I’ll respond in the spirit this thread has degenerated to.
The people of Missouri do know who the fuck they’re voting for. They are voting for Mel’s widow. Apparently they’d rather go with inexperience than someone they disagree with.
Certainly you can’t possibly be so dumb… OK scratch that, apparently you can… but most of us have no trouble believing simple facts of life like people die at inconvenient times. And that swearing at Friedo isn’t going to change the Missouri State Constitution.
Pull that pus-filled cavity attached to your shoulders out of your ass and look at the facts. When a senator can’t fill his office, the governor appoints a temporary replacement. Sometimes even the widow of the deceased. That’s the way it happens according to the fucking Constitution, and it’s not going to change no matter how much you hate women. It’s the goddam law.
In the election in question, Mel’s name is on the ballot. That cannot, again regardless of your idiotic stance on the matter, change, according to the laws of Missouri. People can vote for the guy if they want, which it seems they do. They know who they’re really voting for. It’s been announced by the governor that Mel’s widow will take the vacant seat.
In short, the people of Missouri do know who the fuck they are voting for. They don’t seriously expect their votes to drag Mel out of the grave to serve his damn term. They know, as even fucking idiots like yourself know, who their vote is really for. And it’s certainly not the first time someone has held an elected office in this country without actually being elected to it. How the fuck did you survive the Ford administration without exploding in a little, pathetic ball of rage?
Oh, yeah, Ford wasn’t a woman, so it was all right.
I guess if you had only gotten to know me better before spitting you wild-ass venom we might have gotten along better. Actually, I’m a Libertarian, which I guess you both are as well, at least Tech, and we may have been friends before, but I don’t want to be friends with obvious lonely assholes like yourselves so forget it.
Dear ghod, Origato . . . how do you manage to live? The last person I saw who was as stupid as you couldn’t remember to breathe.
Not that I mind. Your stupidity isn’t your fault (as I suppose you’re genetically predisposed to huffing paint thinner), but your ignorance certainly is. Pick up one of those paper thingies with all the black squiggles, and have your librarian read it to you. Make sure it’s a real book this time, though. I hear she’s sick of reading you the letters column from High Society.
I can’t speak for techchick, but I’m most assuredly not a libertarian. I’m a progressive/liberal registered-Democrat who is planning to vote for Nader. I live in Maryland, not Missouri, but if I did, I’d vote for Carnahan.
And, I may be an asshole, but that’s a compliment coming from an ignorant chronic masturbator as yourself.
Again, go fuck yourself. You’re good at it, I bet. I’m not friends with sexist ignoramuses, and don’t say you don’t know any: go look in the mirror.
Now wait a minute here Origato, you are the one slinging shit at other members of this board. I call it as I see it.
I am a Libertarian and I also believe that the best way to get to the heart of the matter is to get involved in politics rather than attack people that are stating facts. That doesn’t do anybody any good.
You were the one that attacked people in this thread for giving you the facts. You were the one that got a wild hair up your butt for people telling you that apparently the state’s Constitution mandates this issue.
Right now you are loosing a lost battle. You are looking like a complete fool because you are attacking the wrong people. The people that initially responded to your thread in a civil manner until you came out like a gorilla mom flinging her shit around.
So until you realize that I think you need to take a step back and know that most of us are on your side regardless of your bullshit throwing.
I’d hope so. Seeing as how we live in a Democratic political structure, having, say, an Anarcist or Facist governor WOULD be something to worry about. Or maybe you were referring to the opposite of Republicanic.
Oh, you meant to say the Governor is a Democrat? Gee, I was so amazed that you referred to techie, one of the hottest mommas on the boards, as “techbitch” that I guess I’m a little slow on the uptake from the shock of it all. Like some posters I can think of.
What makes you think that the wife will accept the position? Her husband just died. Unless she’s a remarkably strong woman, making sure that her husband’s legacy in the Senate is in tact MIGHT not be her top priority. Maybe making sure her children don’t loose one child to fate and one to a demanding job is.
On the other hand, if she DOES accept, then she IS a remarkable woman. This is, as my fellow Dopers have pointed out, only if the MO voters are either so uninformed they are are UNAWARE that he’s dead, or that they’re so sentimental that they vote for a dead guy just for the sake of giving him a post-humous honor. In which case they’re godammed fucking morons, and deserve whatever they get. Plus, they’re electing the governor, so they obviously have to put some degree of trust in the man. You don’t like the fact that majority rules here? Move to China. No “democratic” governors there.
ps to techie: Ignore the silly little thing. You know the majority of Dopers adore you, hon, right?
Probably, but come 18 November, that will change. I assure you. Find out why in 29 posts, or do some research. You know what that is? Learning about something to stamp out personal ignorance. That’s why we’re here, y’know, to fight ignorance.
Until then, have fun jerking off to your pictures of Harry Browne.
I’m going to bed. I hope you’re gone by the time I wake up.
When he campaigns, Ashcroft now has the unenviable choice of maligning the memory of a deceased governor or attacking said governor’s widow. It must be hard as hell to campaign (especially when you are close or a little behind in the polls) when your “official” opponent is dead and his widow is the de facto opponent. Even the “attacking” of an opponent’s agenda that may be acceptable in a normal campaign will appear downright cruel in this one. Can anyone in Missouri tell us how his campaign ads have changed since this turn of events? I heard he suspended his ads right after the plane crash, but at that time most people were speculating that Carnahan couldn’t win.
It’s not a matter of kissing up to me, they know my stance on issues and know that, in most instances, I will not come out fighting unless I see an untruth. Most people on this board know I have principles and I will, reagardless of your religious, political, moral or any other stance will call them if I see it going beyond normal human interactions like this thread of yours. That my friend relates to personal freedom and responsibility.
You are claiming to represent the Libertarians on this, in no uncertain terms but you aren’t. BTW {{{{SWIDDLES, MONFORT you non-Libertarians}}}}, but you give a bad example when you do what you just did.
When it comes to personal attacks against your person then you have all rights in my eyes to defend yourself. The moment that you attack, based on facts by other members of this board I will speak up and call you wrong. You can not do that especially when it comes to political issues.
Consider this a slap on the wrist…if you do it again I will seriously get on your ass.
Uhhhhh…not after reading some of the stuff you posted after I posted this. Sorry, but you are acting a bit over-the-top here.
Just calm-diddly-down, mate.
I understand what the law says. I merely think it is a poor law. And I expect he would appoint someone from the same party. But, I’m quite certain his wife will accept even if she feels she is unfit.
But that’s not my beef. IMO, the party of the decedant should put forth another candidate chosen by their delegates. That’s all. I have nothing at all against the wife of the late Governor.
Mel Carnahan was the currentGoverner of Missouri. He was running for Senator in this election, and some other guys are running for Governer. I think the people of Missouri have felt very attached to their recently deceaced Governer, and probably they know a little bit about his wife, as well.
They will make their choice. They know their options.
I also want to mention, I am far from politically aware, but the idea of the widow taking over for her husband in the Senate is not rare. It’s kinda like a tradition. Hell, there was a short-lived sitcom with Delta Burke with that theme. She played the flakey widow of a politician, and she was finishing his term. (I think this was a spin-off of “Designing Women”, she played the Sugarbaker character.)