I remembere how Republicans treated Paul Wellstone death.

[YorkRd]

Republicans like Rush Limbaughand his dittoheads joked about Paul Wellsones death. Then they were crazy upset about Wellsones funeral being politicized. Everything reversed about Charlie Kirk

[Walleye]

1. It's frustrating it does no good to point out their hypocrisy, or their corruption.

It used to be in politics of once you exposed someone’s bad side it would have an effect. Not anymore, and in fact it maybe just increases their popularity with the butt-hurt bros. Frustrating, the way a group of adolescent boys is frustrating, when they start bullying and taunting somebody or showing off

[Attilatheblond]

7. Thank you for the phrase "the butt-hurt bros". It's a keeper & I am adding it to my repertoire

[Walleye]

9. Thank you, it just popped into my head

[rubbersole]

11. The sweet old lady who works at the local farmers' market...

...called tsf "Putin's pin cushion" in a conversation I overheard last week. Couldn't stop laughing - especially coming from her. I tipped her $5 for 2 tomatoes.

[Attilatheblond]

12. That's another keeper!

[littlemissmartypants]

14. The Violent Take it By Force

https://democraticunderground.com/100220620528

[milestogo]

2. Paul Wellstone was a wonderful senator and an exceptional human being.

And he was probably murdered by the right.

[The Grand Illuminist]

17. He was not murdered.

Not by Bush, not by anybody.

[dflprincess]

3. To be clear

Wellstone's funeral was a private, religious service. What made the wingnuts crazy was the public memorial to the public man.

[JI7]

10. But the public service did come off bad with people

booing Republicans and then cheering others.

It came off really bad and we ended up losing his seat because of it.

[dflprincess]

21. The local media helped fan the outrage

The other thing that hurt us was that too many absentee voters weren't able to change their ballots.

[UTUSN]

24. Yip, our extra-actives lashed out like a rally

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220644513
.... When I talked to my elder sister by phone and said something about it was all right to react to the Repubs, she said with gravity, "No, but, this was BAD."

Not that CHEENEE would be wanted there, but the Repub senatorial colleagues who went were booed and harassed.

***** QUOTE*****

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220644513
.... The memorial service for Wellstone and the other victims of the crash was held in Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota and broadcast live on national TV.[43] The lengthy service was dotted with political speeches, open advocacy on political issues, and a giant beach ball batted around the crowd in the style of a beach party. Many high-profile politicians attended the memorial, including former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, and more than half the U.S. Senate. The White House offered to send Vice President Dick Cheney to the service, but the Wellstone family declined.[44] ....

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[alittlelark]

4. I remember well, he died on my birthday.

I was eating an In&Out at a park - cruising radio stations, came to Limbaugh - he’s the one I heard it from… I swear there was an undercurrent of glee….

[kwolf68]

5. Wellstone would have been President one day

Wellstone didn't preach hatred and division and honestly cared about the world we live in and its people. A guy "too woke" for sure, but one hell of a man this world sadly didn't get enough of.

[Blue Owl]

6. Hypocrisy is the GOP's biggest "strength"

[Jeebo]

8. Wasn't there something about electronics in the area going awry?

It really does seem like those plane crashes always happen to prominent Democrats. Paul Wellstone, Jerry Litton, Mel Carnahan ... The only Republican I can think of was John Tower, but he was out of office and had been for quite a while. There was nothing suspicious about that one; it really was just an accident.

Litton, in my opinion, would have been president eventually.

-- Ron

[milestogo]

13. After it happened Senator Feingold decided not to fly in small planes any more.

He travelled around Wisconsin, to all 70 counties, by car.

[moniss]

15. I was so disappointed in my fellow voters

when Russ was defeated. The idea that so many of my neighbors chose and still stick with Ron Johnson is sickening to me.

[milestogo]

16. The radio ads against him were sickening.

And considering he had been in the Senate for 18 years its amazing people fell for it.

[Scubamatt]

22. What happened to Wisconsin?

When I was a young adult, it was solidly blue - what turned it so reddish-purple?

[moniss]

23. From Reagan on it was a concerted

effort by right wing groups like the Koch Brothers etc.

[BattleRow]

18. Back in early 70's ,Democratic Hale Boggs went down in Alaska plane crash.

Super prominent,and dad of Cokie Roberts.
Body never found

[AdamGG]

19. I remember how right wingers treated Ted Kennedy's death

I used to participate in something called "The Political Playground" on a New England Patriots fan site called "Patriots Planet". The people in there were kind of the anti-matter to the majority political views of Massachusetts. Gun nuts, climate change and vaccine deniers, "libertarians" (except when the government was imposing right wing policies that they liked).

When Ted Kennedy died, there were 4 or 5 celebratory threads. Most of the people there weren't very bright and it was kind of fun to make sport of them, but it became too much after Trump was re-elected - removed my account.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Same with Ron Brown

The late RW loon blowhard radio host (multiple NY area stations including WABC & WOR) was fired for his callus remarks when it was confirmed that Clinton's Commerce Secretary's plane had crashed -

Bob Grant Is Off Air Following Remarks On Brown's Death


By Lawrie Mifflin
April 18, 1996


Bob Grant, the radio talk show host who for more than 25 years has provoked outrage with his derogatory comments about black and Hispanic people, was abruptly taken off the air yesterday after facing criticism for a remark he made following the death of Ronald H. Brown, the Commerce Secretary.

Through his afternoon radio show on WABC-AM, which is broadcast throughout the New York region, Mr. Grant has become a flashpoint in the debate over whether talk radio has gone too far. He has referred to blacks as "savages," and has got prominent politicians into trouble for appearing on his program.

A two-sentence statement released late yesterday by Capital Cities/ABC Inc., said the relationship between the company and Mr. Grant "has been terminated by mutual agreement." But several industry officials said there was no doubt that Mr. Grant had been dismissed.

The last straw, they said, was a comment by Mr. Grant on his show on April 3 after initial news reports about the crash from Croatia said there might be one survivor. "My hunch is that he is the one survivor," Mr. Grant said, according to a transcript of his program provided by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog organization based in Manhattan. "I just have that hunch. Maybe it's because, at heart, I'm a pessimist."

(snip)