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Had she showed up, even uninvited, to the funeral and introduced herself to the widow, handed her the business cards saying: "I want you to know that if there is anything the Commonwealth can do to assist you please do not hesitate to call me" she could have been on the side of the angels. But the looney liberal in her simply refused to let the occasion go without a cheap shot.

Her name would still have been front page in the papers but it would have been praise instead of condemnation. That's the difference between a hero and a heel.

1.  She was LATE!
   
   
2.  A late CELEBRITY attracts attention to herself and away from the purpose - honoring a fallen soldier.
   
   
3.  Any statement other than "Thank You" or "I'm so sorry for your loss" "Your country appreciates your sacrifice" is out of line.
   
   
4.  She's ditzy thinking that everyone who has lost a loved one must be anti-war.

"...but if malaprops were a disqualification from office I submit that we would be looking for a new president of the United States."  Why is it that

apologists are always changing the subject? Oh, I forgot, the "Gotcha" game...  Dumb me.

she should know better. While I want her to resign NOW, politically I hope she stays on the ticket with Fast Eddie.

This albatross is so big she can sink a ship by landing on it. Rendell can't say it is so without the replacement lined up nor so close to the incident, but sometime between now and the nominations, Ms Knoll will find that she wants to spend more time with the family and Eddie will reluctantly (ha ha) accept her decision.

she stays on the ticket.

Pennsylvania will be better off with Governor Swann.

Balances the ticket -- She's an African-American AND a western Pennsylvanian.

Yet she also provides continuity -- a cranky female odd-ball.

And a ready-ade Rendell-Kerry slogan: Shove it!

her outstanding relationship with the Pittsburgh press.

that joke was already made. I'll go mow the lawn now.

Yeah we gotta bring Teresa Heinz Kerry back in the news. She provided so many chuckles.

What is most distressing about this story is Governor Rendell's reaction, as reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and quoted by Malkin: "'It's not the business of state government to support the war, but our state supports the men and women who are fighting this war,' Rendell said during an appearance in Mt. Washington."

If I undertstand this correctly, Rendell is saying that, while the federal government of the United States is engaged in a war on terrorism, the state government of Pennsylvania is officially a neutral party in that war; it doesn't support the war, and takes no position on which side should win, though it wishes American soldiers well.

Did I miss Pennsylvania's declaration of secession from the union, or is this it?

In addition to the hippy smears against him in 86 from Begala, et al., Scranton also backed Natural Law candidate John Hagelin in the 2000 election (though he did return to the GOP fold in 2004).

I'm really hoping Lynn Swann is the real deal.  He should be pretty good on camera from his career with ABC.  Anything to get away from the liberal and Philly-centric governance of Rendell.

While you hypocrites are busy making mountains out of mole hills, do any of you wing nuts want to make a comment on this "Real Issue"

At what point to even you guys start to say enough is enough????????

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/27/delay-dirty-tricks/

One of these two is someone who says nasty things, serves no real purpose and just bothers the heck out of me.  The other crashes military funerals and makes an ass out of herself.

which is which?

Since this is your first post, you get a warning. RedState is a no-profanity zone.

sorry, I completely missed the warning.  it won't happen again.

LT GOV Baker Knoll, IMO, is the proverbial dead horse, lying prostrate on the ground over this issue.  Let's not appear to be kicking her, lest we appear to be engaging too gleefully in schadenfreude.

My worry is that GOV Rendell, with his feathers appropriately ruffled, will appear before microphones and cameras and complain that the Right Wing Blogosphere is having way too much fun beating up on LT GOV Baker Knoll.  While conceding that the LT GOV did a dumb dumb dumb thing in her conduct at the funeral, he could then protest that she's a good and well-meaning person on whom the Right Wing Blogosphere is piling.

There's no need for us to continue pounding Baker Knoll.  She's already stewing, in a situation she made. Let her stew!!!  Don't give her the chance to play martyr, allow the MSM to blow some smoke in her favor, behind which she can slip away. Let's not help Baker Knoll rehabilitate herself.  

To be fair, let's give her the opportunity to state her case.  If she can come before the microphones and cameras and convince us that her efforts, while clumsy, were sincerely selfless and well-meaning, instead of opportunistic, then OK.  I'm willing to hear her out, ONCE she comes out in the light of day and deals with the firestorm she's started.  (That's a press conference I'd love to see).

Remember the old adage:  If your opponent is in the process of self-destruction, don't slow up or short-circuit the process.  I'm concerned that a "right-wingers-are-being-mean-to-LT GOV-Baker Knoll" meme could get started in the Pennsylvania press (much of which, I suspect, is friendly to Rendell and the Democrats).  If that happens, the tide of indignation growing against Baker Knoll might be short-circuited.  If that indignation is justified--and, from all the evidence we have now, it does seem justified--we should want it to keep rising.

In 2006, the partisans in us should want the voters of PA to think "Baker Knoll the opportunist" when they think of the Democrats, NOT "Baker Knoll the victim."

I don't know anymore if I want her resignation or for her to stay on and continue to damage the credibility of Rendell's government.

I bet that if the polls show Rendell down and that it is because of Knoll, he'll dump her and pick up a popular PA democract, like Mark Singel or TJ Ronney.

Both parties will have Steeler connections. The Republicans will have Lynn Swann while the Democrats may have to chuck Knoll.

As a PA resident, I will work hard to ensure Eddy and CBK will not serve another term. I did email her in Harrisburg to express my opinion and wished her luck in finding future employment. I am sure there is something out there for a rude, inconsiderate witch.  Perhaps a carnival dunk tank.

Seems Rendell and Knoll are aping A&C and reminds me of a brief exchange between A&C. To wit..........

Rendell (Abbott): "How stupid can you get?"

Knoll (Costello): "I don't know. How stupid do you want me to be?"