Would you change your vote if your candidate assaulted someone?

[Kingpoleon]

The Dem party constantly votes for folks like Ted Kennedy and Alcee Hastings.

Please don't compare Ted Kennedy murdering somebody and Bill Clinton's sexual assault and rape "allegations" to this. This is unacceptable because it happened publicly the day before the election.

[krazen1211]

The Dem party constantly votes for folks like Ted Kennedy and Alcee Hastings.

When did either of those assault somebody?

It is not assault per se. Consider it a different sort of crime...either the one he pled guilty to or something more sinister.

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Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.

On July 25, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, received a two-month suspended sentence, and had his license suspended for a year.



Alcee Hastings was impeached and convicted in the US Senate for accepting bribes and many other things. The Dem controlled Senate, uh, forgot to bar him from holding future public office.

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Since they decided to not do that, Hastings ran for Congress. He remains there today.

[KingSweden]

The Dem party constantly votes for folks like Ted Kennedy and Alcee Hastings.

When did either of those assault somebody?

It is not assault per se. Consider it a different sort of crime...either the one he pled guilty to or something more sinister.

Link

Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.

On July 25, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, received a two-month suspended sentence, and had his license suspended for a year.



Alcee Hastings was impeached and convicted in the US Senate for accepting bribes and many other things. The Dem controlled Senate, uh, forgot to bar him from holding future public office.

Link

Since they decided to not do that, Hastings ran for Congress. He remains there today.

That's more an indictment of the voters of Hastings' district, though. The Senate did its job and bounced him, as they should have.

[Plate]

It would depend on the situation.

[Mr. Smith]

Only to abstain or maybe vote Green, and only if the circumstances are as bad as they are told to be and not some faux outrage from the conservative media.

[Badger]

Let me lawyer this up by removing one bit of weaseling out of a hard decision. Assault by its definition implies the lack of an affirmative defense such as self-defense. Let us assume, as I guess Virginia intended, that the assault was not justified by self-defense or defense of others period your candidate just out-and-out committed a crime of assault by tackling and punching someone without justification other than an exchange of words and your candidate lost their temper. Now what do you do.?