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BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit

07 Aug 09 - 08:04 PM (#2695863)
Subject: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinesz to quit
From: pdq

"Republican Sen. Mel Martinez's decision Friday to step down 16 months early..."

I'm sure there will be stories and opinion pieces soon.


07 Aug 09 - 08:41 PM (#2695889)
Subject: RE: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit
From: Joe Offer

Well, I suppose it's kinda frustrating for Republicans in the Senate these days. A Republican senator resigning before the scandal hits the tabloids? Now, THIS is news...

Sorry, pdq.
-Joe-


07 Aug 09 - 08:53 PM (#2695892)
Subject: RE: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit
From: pdq

I'm sure I made it clear a long time ago that I register "independent".

Also spent my first 32 voting years as registered as a Democrat.

McCain lost in 2008 because self-identified conservatives had, shall we say, very little enthusiasm for him.


07 Aug 09 - 09:29 PM (#2695911)
Subject: RE: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit
From: Riginslinger

Actually, I think he would have lost no matter what he did, but the economic collapse sealed it. History will probably determine if that was engineered or not.

            And I'm registered "GREEN."

            But I'll have to admit, I'm puzzled as to what is driving Mel Martinez. And now Charlie Crisp is saying he will not appoint himself to serve out the term. Weird, I'd say.


07 Aug 09 - 09:36 PM (#2695917)
Subject: RE: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit
From: Peace

Ya hear about the optometrist who fell into his lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself?


07 Aug 09 - 09:46 PM (#2695921)
Subject: RE: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit
From: pdq

Or the butcher who backed into a meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.


07 Aug 09 - 10:11 PM (#2695927)
Subject: RE: BS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez to quit
From: Peace

LOL

This thing with Mel, as you mentioned in your first post, will be the subject of scrutinization until he finally comes out and says why he gave it up. THEN, the speculation will start followed closely by quotations from Nostradamus proving it just HAD to happen.