At Least for Now, Franken Pulls Ahead

Hooo Haaa, I can’t wait to read “Senator” Franken.

From the people who MURDERED Paul Wellstone, we give you this FARCE of an ahem, “election!”

Minnesota is about ready to have a professional comedian for its state senator.

The Feds are investigating Coleman. Looks like he will be spared the trouble of having to resign.

Nookly 23 “the dems control the state.”
Didn’t you read the original post. The Minn governor is Republican.

What?? You mean to tell me the state is going to settle this matter! No appointment by the supreme court?? Looks like change already.

Franken, you were funny when you were on Saturday Night Live; and you still are! You’re a big joke! Who’s going to trust someone like you? Go home Franken!!!

I am a form Viking fan, no more. You people in min. are scrowing up our country. A pro wrestler that is fake and a comedian that is a fake May God help us.

Al Franken’s scorched earth policy to win an election at all costs. Another Gulfstream liberal from Harvard. What makes him think he deserves to represent the people. he is so far from being one of us.

Yes, nookly23(did your mother give you that name?)counting votes should be illegal, why pretty soon, everyone will want to vote.

First Jesse “The Body” Ventura, now Stuart Smalley? People from Minnesota have a twisted sense of humor. They either need to defrost their noggins or find a new state pastime.

Um, was Al Franken ever really funny. I used to watch SNL, and I honestly can’t ever remember laughing at anything EVER. Maybe the first time I saw Stuart Smalley, but nothing but cricket chirps after that. This election is his comedic apex.

Franken is an idiot just like that movie trading places playing the baggage guy. Real stupid and stupid in his theory of politics. he will win and so will Blago. They are democrates and know how to lie and cheat for their personal gain

Several non-american’s that work in our neck of the woods ‘Voted’ on election day. When asked how they simply said they showed up with a piece of mail or a credit card bill showing their place of residence to be somewhere in Minnesota. If Franken wins I hope that a recall election with everyone REQUIRED to be confirmed a U.S. Citizen prior to the election in this state occurs. I hope if this happens we also have a recount of who we voted for for president.

I do think that Bush stole the election and remember being told that I was just a whining Democrate at the time. Once they finish recounting all the ballots (including wrongly rejected absentee ballots), I am hopeful that Franken will win. I live in MN and the media is all over the story every day and the Sec. of State and canvassing board are being as transparent as possible in the recounting process. My larger point is that as soon as the Republicans think they may lose, then there must shady dealings going on.

The people of Minnesota deserve that joke of a individual named Al Franken. If he wins, an absolute loon will be added to the Senate rolls. I think they must have had their brains frozen.

Daniel T.
Ah, now I get it. It is all about revenge. I thought it was suppose to be all about change. My bad.

For all of you who think that Franken is a joke, you probably voted for McCain, right? Idiots. It’s like saying that the ex-football playing senators have no right to be in the senate. Anyone who is college educated can do a better job than most of our corrupt public officials. Franken went to Harvard, and he is a brilliant man. He’s not Jesse Ventura. Franken stands against unnecessary wars and corruption. He’s also incredibly liberal, and I, for one, hope it wins.

Why not call in Kathleen Harris from Florida to settle this mess

Dan
It’s people like Al Franken and you(liberals) that have kept horrific dictators in power for far too long, and have cost millions of deaths.
Liberals invited ahmadenijead to speak at columbia college. He has openly denied the holocaust and enthusiastically called for a “real” one to take place. Liberals gave him a better reception then they would have given george bush.
America pulled out prematurely of Vietnam, succumbing to liberal pressure, only to leave the South Vietnamese exposed to the takeover by the communist north. The result, “reeducation” camps, teachers hung in front of their students, and millions of people slaughtered.
The liberals were rejoicing in the streets of America at their victory of troop withdrawl while the south vietnamese were being destroyed.
Liberals have been against Iraq from the start. Even if they had found WMD’s, liberals would have argued “how do we know he will use them?” They could not care less that we DID find mustard gas and the bodies of 700,000 people murdered by saddam’s chemical weapons. Or all of the torture chambers that will now never hold another prisoner.
Liberals will NEVER understand that “peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice”. Believe me, saddam dead and rotting in a hole in the ground is justice.
Thank you Mr. Bush for keeping us safe!

It’s bad enough that the Republican Party can’t prevent Democrats from voting in its primaries and saddling us with The New York Times’ favorite Republican as our presidential nominee. If the Republican Party can’t protect an election won by the incumbent U.S. senator in Minnesota, there is no point in donating to the Republican Party.
The day after the November election, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman had won his re-election to the U.S. Senate, beating challenger Al Franken by 725 votes.
Then one heavily Democratic town miraculously discovered 100 missing ballots. And, in another marvel, they were all for Al Franken! It was like a completely evil version of a Christmas miracle.
As strange as it was that all 100 post-election, “discovered” ballots would be for one candidate, it was even stranger that the official time stamp for the miracle ballots printed out by the voting machine on the miracle ballots showed that the votes had been cast on Nov. 2 — two days before the election.
Democratic election officials in the miracle-ballot county simply announced that their voting machine must have been broken. Don’t worry about it — they were sure those 100 votes for Franken were legit.
Then another 400-odd statistically improbable “corrections” were made in other Democratic strongholds until — by the end of election week — Coleman’s lead had been whittled down to a mere 215 votes.
Since then, highly irregular counting methods have added to Franken’s total bit by bit, to the point that Coleman is now ahead by only 188 votes.
As long as Coleman maintains any lead at all, Republicans don’t seem to care that Coleman’s advantage is being shrunk by laughable ballot “discoveries” and disreputable standard-switching from precinct to precinct — depending on which method of counting ballots is most advantageous to Franken.
Consider a few other chilling examples of Democrats thieving their way to victory over the years.
In 1974, Republican Louis Wyman won his race for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, beating Democrat John Durkin by 355 votes. Durkin demanded a recount — which went back and forth by a handful of votes until the state’s Ballot Law Commission concluded that Wyman had indeed won by (at least) two votes.
Wyman was certified the winner by the New Hampshire secretary of state and was on his way to Washington when … the overwhelmingly Democratic U.S. Senate refused to seat Wyman.
Despite New Hampshire’s certification of Wyman as the winner of the election, this was the post-Watergate Senate, when Democrats could get away with anything — up to and including a prank known as “President Jimmy Carter.”
The U.S. Senate spent months examining disputed ballots from the New Hampshire election. Unable to come up with a method to declare the Democrat the winner that didn’t require a guillotine, the Senate forced New Hampshire to hold another election.
It was a breathtaking abuse of power. New Hampshire had certified a winner of its Senate election, but it was a Republican, so the Democratic Senate simply ordered a new election.
Demoralized Republicans stayed away from the race and, this time, the Democrat won the re-vote.
Even more egregious was the Indiana House race in 1984. On election night, the incumbent Democrat Frank McCloskey appeared to have won a narrow victory of 72 votes. But after a correction was made in one county, it turned out his Republican opponent, Richard McIntyre, had won by 34 votes.
McIntyre was certified the winner — which is when the trouble usually starts for a Republican.
Again, a majority Democrat House refused to seat the certified winner in a close election. I’m sure it was just a coincidence that the winner was a Republican.
Consequently, Indiana performed yet another recount of the entire district, which again showed that Republican McIntyre was the winner — this time by 418 votes. Now he was really asking for it. The nerve of this guy! Hey, buddy, do you mind? We’re trying to throw an election over here!
As The Washington Post reported at the time: There were “no allegations of fraud” in the recount and 90 percent of ballot disqualifications had been agreed to “by election commissions dominated by Democrats.”
So naturally the House refused to seat the Republican even though he had received the most votes (hereinafter referred to as “the winner”). The House proceeded to conduct its own recount. (If you haven’t detected a pattern by this point, please ask your doctor if Prilosec is right for you.)
This time, instead of ordering the district to hold another election, the Democratic House saved all concerned a lot of time and money by simply declaring Democrat Frank McCloskey the winner by four votes.
The vote-theft most like Minnesota this year was the infamous 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington State. The Republican won the race on election night, but ballots favoring the Democrat kept being “discovered” until the Democrat finally eked out a majority. At that point, the recount was immediately halted and the Democrat declared the victor.
You would have to go back to Reconstruction to find an election that was stolen by the Republicans this way, but it’s all in a day’s work for the Democrats.
That’s why they were so testy about the 2000 Florida election. It was the one time in the last century Republicans wouldn’t let Democrats steal an election they lost by less than a thousand votes.
No matter how many times Democrats steal elections, Republicans keep thinking the next time will be different. Minnesota is famously clean, isn’t it? It must be different. It’s not different. It’s still the Democrats.

This has become enormously boring, as has all of the election brouhaha.

Minn was one of the states targeted by ACORN in their massive voter fraud efforts that helped the marxist drug addict steal the election, so it is not a surprise that these criminal efforts are having an effect on the Senate race.
In a perverted sense, one must admit that franken, if the ACORN fraud prevails, could become the best symbol of the d-crat party: a pathetic, non-funny clown. He’ll also provide a better meaning to their jackass symbol.

Democrats steal elections? LOL!
Sorry, but Republicans are synonymous with election fraud.
Bite me, hypocritical neocons!

Earthisnotflat – I thought ann made some excellent points backed up with facts. Do you have any facts to counter her argument?

Just what Congress needs a Nanny (Fran Drseher) and a commedian(Al Franken) Maybe Pelosi will crack a smile.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | Dec 19, 2008 3:21:48 PM
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Pelosi crack a smile? Have seen how tight her face is stretched? She couldn’t smile without splitting her skin wide open………..
Back on the subjetct. Does it really matter which of these guys wins the race? They’re both really creepy people… They should have elected Jesse again!!!

Paul: Coulter’s facts were wrong. She’s not really paying attention. The stuff she’s talking about was looked into weeks ago and it didn’t pan out.

If Franken & Co are successful in
stealing this election there will
be one more “Keystone Kop” added to
elected Democrats nationwide!
We have Chris Dodd and Barney Frank who
were asleep at the wheel while
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accepted bad
mortgage after bad mortgage and
encouraged banks to do the same.
Then you have VP-Elect Joe Biden
who makes Barney Fife from the
Andy Griffith Show look like a genius!
Governor Gregwoire of the state of
Washington.
Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Governor Blago of Illinois and
Caroline Kennedy if the Governor
of NY, David Patterson is foolish
enough to appoint her!
Rather then “change you can believe in”,
the slogan for these Dems should be
“change the channel”! LOL!

Neither did Ann, Paul, but you liked what I said better than you liked what she said. The most recent thing I saw by Coulter repeated the story about the votes in the trunk of a car. That’s been known to be false for weeks, and Governor Pawlenty has said so.
I just looked at your many posts and there wasn’t a fact in there. Who are you to demand facts?
If Ann Coulter is your main source you have a problem, because she’ll lie to you. There are better sources out there. But she makes you feel good.

John,
Wow. Do you always make so many assumptions about people you don’t know? How sad and arrogant. Like you, I don’t like trolls, but I differ in that I don’t like liberal kind.

OK, John. Here is one fact. Al Franken is an Emmy-award winning comedian, and he is about to become the US Senator from Minnesota.
John, I actually wish you all the best this holiday season.

Franken has no experience in politics and the people voting for him are as nutty as he is. He should stick to comics and he is not good at that. No wonder the democrats are in trouble when they have people running for the senate like him. And I don’t care if he won an award. He doesn’t belong in politics. He is a joke.

Banned: Democrats are the worst for stealing elections. What about Hillary losing. Didn’t Nancy Pelosi pressure the superdelegates to switch their vote to Obama. Didn’t Dean give Obama some of Hillary’s delegates she won in MI and FL to make sure she didn’t win? Get a grip. Obama is one of the worst backhanded candidate that ran for office.

ann:
You are officially recognized as
a plagerist!
You copied verbatim Ann Coulters
column fromthe Sunday papers without
referring to her!
She happens to be wrong about
John McCain! It’s fools like Coulter
who preferred to sit on their hands
than vote for McCain that cost him the
election! A candidate doesn’t have to agree with you on every issue!
Pragmatism wins elections not ideology!

It seems a bit far fetched, but I wonder if George Lucas used Mr Franken looks and manner of speaking as a model for the odious creature in Star Wars? Does Mr Franken remind anyone else of Jabba the Hut?