GOP sees Franken as top public enemy

[Suji to Seoul]

Source: Poltico via Yahoo News

With only a longshot court appeal standing in the way of Democrat Al Franken’s election to the Senate, Republicans are gritting their teeth and bracing for the arrival of a new senator whose every utterance will sound like nails on a chalkboard to them.

While Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has filed suit to contest the results of a disputed recount process that turned his narrow lead into a 225-vote deficit, his likely defeat stands to turn Franken, the polarizing former “Saturday Night Live” writer, into the senator who launched a thousand direct mail fundraising appeals.

“I don’t know if we’ve ever had an opponent who is so disliked by Republicans as Al Franken,” said Minnesota Republican Party Chair Ron Carey, who cautioned that Coleman’s election challenge could still turn the results back his way. “It’s one thing to lose to an honorable opponent, but Al Franken is not considered an honorable opponent by Minnesota Republicans.”

Marty Seifert, the Republican leader in the Minnesota House of Representatives, said Franken’s long record of antagonizing conservatives would make it difficult for him to connect with voters who supported Coleman.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/17233

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CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER, YOU TURDS!!!! You lost. . .get over it. Bush was as honorable as Bugs Meany from the Encyclopedia Brown series!

[bearfan454]

1. Damn right. Coleman was hand picked by Karl Rove after

they killed Wellstone.

[TheEuclideanOne]

16. He was?

Ah, that is precious. I didn't know that. That makes it so much sweeter.

I have listened to Franken a number of times on Air America Radio and I have always wanted to see one of these talk show hosts actually get into politics. They always seem to have great insight into politics and it's effects on society. I have always been curious to see how they would act once they are actually in the role. For example, Randi Rhodes for presidnet?

[rucognizant]

19. Yes; hand picked.......

and machine elected?
Walter Mondale should have won that Senate seat!

[SpiralHawk]

2. America sees GOP as top pubic enemy

After 8 years of lies, corruption and EPIC fail, republicons have tossed America's economy, environment, honor, and citizens in the crapper while enriching their own fatcat 'elite' cronies and pursuing their own WAY kinky 'family values' perversions.

Why do republicons hate America?

[saltpoint]

3. Well, the poor whiney Republicans will just have to stomp their feet and

pout up a storm.

It's not final-final, but it's lookin' otherwise pretty final that Al Franken is Minnesota's next U.S. Senator.

The quote in the article suggests that a carefully-counted majority of Minnesotans voted for a "dishonorable" candidate, which seems to me to slam the character of the voters.

Franken whupped their honey-child Norm Coleman. Took Coleman right out of the GOP Senate leadership succession line and increased Obama's support in the upper chamber for progressive legislation.

No wonder the Pukes are throwing a hissy.

[Kolesar]

9. the GOPs are only going to dig themselves a hole with this one

They used to run on "entrepreneurship, security, etc". Now the public is just going to think they are sore losers.

[saltpoint]

11. Agree. It really does look like Al won fair and square, and they even

recounted the votes that pushed him into the lead.

Our guy got more votes than their guy, and where most of us come from, first wins.

[liberal1973]

4. HaHaHa You LOST GOP

GOP=grand old pervert party.:patriot:

GOP=POS party!

[NewJeffCT]

5. I'm just so broken up over this issue

Hey GOP -

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Obviously, he's doing something right.

Anyone who gives rebubbalickin's the vapors is okay by me.:thumbsup: (Besides, he's good enough, he's smart enough, and, doggone it, 256 more people liked him than liked Mr. Teeth!)

[TheEuclideanOne]

15. Rebubbalickins

:rofl:

[Kolesar]

7. Yesterday's posting of this story made the DU Greatest page

Loving it
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4802748

[Stevepol]

8. I personally don't think Coleman won the first time when he faced Mondale.

I think he was elected by the optiscans (I believe ES&S) that were used in his election in 02. As I understand it, Mondale had a 5-point lead in some good pre-election polls and yet lost, just beyond the percentage that called for a mandatory recount. And this was before the greater awareness of computer election problems, when nobody was paying attention at all.

I could be wrong of course but nobody can prove me wrong. When computers are used to count the vote w/o mandatory and robust audits, there's no verification and no way to verify short of a recount as happened in the Franken election.

The optiscans as used in MN have paper and we can be thankful for that, but just because there's paper doesn't mean it's going to be used and it wasn't in the Mondale loss in 02.

[machI]

10. Well good. Let the Republicans waste their time fighting with the junior Senator from Minnesota

That occupies their time and lets the Democrats get on with running the Government.

This will make Al tough as nails. When he is in his third term as Senator, he will have tremendous respect from both sides of the isle.

[Thor_MN]

12. They do not hate Al for his beliefs, but because he has called them out on their bullshit

To a bully and/or liar, there is nothing worse than being publicly exposed. They require fear or secrecy to maintain their relevance.

[xthetylerx]

13. Cry me 10,000 lakes, Minnesota GOP! nt

[Deja Q]

14. How honorable are the Minnesota Republicans in office?

And does that exclude Norm from the list? Of the two, he has, by a wide margin, been the real lizard in this whole affair. First he says it's a waste of money to recount. The ballots get recounted, twice apparently (?), with provisions allowing either candidate to challenge any ballot they see fit, adding to the mire. Now he wants to sue and have more money wasted, and the Courts ruled "NO". Damn activist judges. :eyes:

And if it was Franken making all the noise, my opinion would be no different; Franken would be the lizard.

[amb123]

17. The GOP Hates Truth Tellers

It's as simple as that.

"I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth on them and they thought it was hell." - Harry S Truman

[opihimoimoi]

18. They just don't get it....what is it? are they that Blind? Deaf? Stupid?

Winning by Denigrating is Passe....

Win by Merit is IN....

[spanone]

20. go al, piss them off all you can....coleman was an insult to wellstone legacy