Less than a month after being indicted in a corruption probe, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens won the Republican primary and will head to the General Election:
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska won the Republican primary in his home state on Tuesday, soundly defeating six Republican challengers less than a month after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil services company.
The victory for Mr. Stevens, 84, means he now moves to a tough general election campaign against Mayor Mark Begich of Anchorage, who easily won the Democratic primary on Tuesday and leads the senator in polls. Mr. Stevens enters the general election also having to prepare for his trial, which is scheduled to begin in late September.
Mr. Stevens, who has been in office for 40 years and is revered for bringing home billions of dollars in federal spending, had received 63 percent of the vote with 61 percent of precincts counted.
“People have been voting for Ted for 40 years and their inclination is to keep doing it,” Dave Cuddy, a former state lawmaker who finished a distant second to Mr. Stevens, said in a phone interview several hours before the polls closed.
Which just reinforces my general opinion that voters are often quite stupid.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Ted Stevens is going to hand this office over to Mark Begich on a silver platter. Too bad he didn’t do the manly thing and resign while he was on top. He could have been remembered for strength of character. Instead, he will be remembered as an old fool who felt entitled to the peoples’ office. Just like Don Young.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hey, people were voting for John Edwards after the love-child story broke. Although I must admit, you had to dig pretty hard to find it (the story) back then.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
It’s such NEWS when a great Democratic family man like John Edwards has a relatively minor moral failure (the love-child part of the story is nothing but a unproven rumor at this point).
It’s not even worth mentioning when leading Republican politicians can’t or won’t even keep their marriages together :
Ronald Reagan - divorced the mother of two of his children to marry Nancy Reagan who bore him a daughter only 7 months after the marriage.
Gerald Ford - married to Betty (a divorcee).
Sen. John McCain of Arizona - divorced.
Sen. Bob Dole - divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed him through the long recovery from his war wounds.
If you think George H.W. Bush was a model of virtue, check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Fitzgerald
Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas - divorced.
Sen. John G. Tower of Texas (1961-85) divorced in ‘76 & ‘87
Sen. Lauch Faircloth - divorced.
Sen. Alfonse D’Amato of New York - divorced.
Sen. John Warner of Virginia - twice divorced (once married to Liz Taylor.).
Newt Gingrich - divorced his wife who was dying of cancer.
Dick Armey - House Majority Leader - divorced.
Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia - Barr, not yet 50 years old, has been married three times. Barr had the audacity to author and push the “Defense of Marriage Act.” The current joke making the rounds on Capitol Hill is “Bob Barr. . .which marriage are you defending?!?.
Rep. Helen Chenoweth of Idaho - divorced.
ex-Rep. John Kasich of Ohio - divorced.
Rep. Susan Molinari of New York - Republican National Convention Keynote Speaker - divorced.
Henry Kissinger - divorced.
George W. Bush’s beloved Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez - divorced.
Gov. George Allen of Virginia - divorced.
ex-Gov. John Engler of Michigan - divorced.
ex-Gov. Pete Wilson of California - divorced.
ex-Gov. John Roland of Connecticut - divorced
(imprisoned for corruption after resigning in shame).
George Will - divorced.
Rush Limbaugh - Rush (30-pill a day drug addict) and his latest wife, Marta, have six marriages and six divorces between them.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.
Ironically, big-time political strategist Roger Stone was one of the GOP’s top strategists urging Republican politicians to emphasize family values and integrity . . . until he was exposed in a story in the National Enquirer revealing that he and his wife (pictured at lower right) were swingers. [ http://www.madcowprod.com/05182007.html ]
As Bruce Volpe, a Washington policy wonk, pointed out, ( in Nov. 2007) “Of the four top Republicans in the race for president - Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney - where family values are (so they claim) paramount tenets of the party, they have eight wives between them, and the only one who has been married only once is - the Mormon.”
Although clearly the beneficiary of Affirmative Action himself, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been one of its opponents now that he has become a champion of the white Republican establishment. And although he is an ultra-conservative Catholic in most respects at least when others are concerned, he was uncharacteristicly liberal when it came to his own marriages. Two years after divorcing the mother of his one child, a Catholic woman whom he had married 13 years earlier, he took a second wife, which is totally incompatible with the conservative Catholicism which he professes to believe and practice.
(There’s tons MORE dirt on the party of corruption and immorality at http://JesusNoRepublican.Org/gopcorruption.html ).
August 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I dont give a damn who is married and who is not. When will people vote for the people who defend the constitution. If you are voting Mccain or Obama you need to read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
And on Clarence Thomas! He and Scalia defend the Constitution the way it was written more than anyone else!! It has nothing to do with race. You need to educate yourself ! Ignorant thats all you are Rev Ray Dubuque