At 10:36 AM -0500 on 11/8/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If the citizens of Missouri chose to elect a deceased person as Senator,
>I think
> that's exactly what they should get.
Would that we were all so fortunate. Imagine, a whole senate full of dead
people. Well... empty seats representing dead people. Or something.
Missouri, the show me state, indeed.
Let's see, somebody could go around and collect petition signatures for
famous ex-sons-of-Massachusetts. *Lots* of those. John Adams? Sam
Adams?... Hmmm....What was the name of the first colonist killed at Concord?
Oops.
Wait a minute. That would not, in fact, get the result we desire. In fact,
we'd get the worst of all possible worlds.
If I recall correctly, dead Republicans *don't* vote.
Only dead *Democrats* can do *that*...
;-).
Cheers,
RAH
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