Claymore: You are mistaken about the polls. Every poll I can find from the month before Wellstone was killed says he was leading, and that his lead was growing. Please click HERE and HERE, and HERE.

Bill D: Why "ludicrous"? Is it not a bit disturbing that shortly after Senator Jeffords crossed the aisle, (and was damned in this Forum as a "traitor," an attempt was made to kill two Senators, both in the opposing Party? Is it not disturbing that after finding that they could not blame the whole business on foreigners, the FBI lost all interest in investigating? There is a widespread mentality that says, anything goes if it is to oppose the foreign foe. And if Democrats are soft on Communism, anything goes to defeat democrats.

Does it not disturb you to know that the FBI actively intervened in California politics to make sure Ronald Reagan was elected governor? It you don't believe this is true, CLICK HERE. Is it not disturbing that it took more thn 30 years to find out what happened through Freedom of Information Act requests? If you don't believe that, CLICK HERE.

A couple of years back, I spent several hours listening to the Clinton impeachment proceedings. What bothered me most was the insistence of the Republican Congressmen that what Clinton did, that is, lie about an affair that was irrelevant to the lawsuit he was defending, was worse that the Watergate break in or the Iran-Contra conspiracy because it was done to protect Clinton's "self-interest." The inference seems to be, crimes are justified if they promote a right-wing political program. (Admittedly the people at the hearing were not typical Republicans - they were the crazies.) If those people could justify crimes in the name of anti-Communism, I think the "war against terrorism," or just about any other cause involving foreigners, would do as well.

Am I wrong, Bill D? I don't know that there is a conspiracy here, mysterious as all these things are. But they really, really do disturb me. Why is that ludicrous? Don't they bother you? Not even a little bit?