In a Democratic state in a Democratic year where the Democratic presidential nominee vastly outspent the Republican and had a far superior grassroots campaign which benefited down-ticket Democrats across the nation, the Democratic candidate for Senate ran 12 points behind the Democratic nominee for President in Minnesota, yet thanks to a third party candidate won election to the U.S. Senate, barely outpolling the Republican who has just conceded.
Had it not been for Democratic sample ballots in the Gopher State, the party’s Senate nominee may well have won fewer than 40% of the vote. Many likely voted for him, knowing little about it save that he was running on the same ticket as their beloved Barack Obama. Minnesotans really don’t like the guy, but will have to suffer with him representing their state in the Senate for another five-and-one-half years.
Al Franken should be right at home in a institution presided by a gaffe-prone fomer Delaware Senator and including the likes of Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid whose political involvement seems rooted not in advancement of ideas, but in antipathy to Republicans and in earning the accolades of left-wing interest groups.
A sad day for civil discourse. This is not the first time when mean-spirited rhetoric fueled the advancement of a Democratic politician. The Senate will soon include a left-wing Thedore Bilbo.
Franken is not a Republican homophobe so of course you don’t like him.
What a juvenile comment, NJ Liberal. Why do you choose to insult us instead of addressing the point of the post. Guess that’s just m modus operandi for liberals like you. Insult when you can’t argue.
1: Rowwr! 🙂
2: Gimmee a break, your blog here would have been *vastly* different if a decision had been handed down for Coleman. 3rd party candidate spoiler? hmmmmmm…..I heard the same things (and from different parties) in ’92, ’96 and ’00. (not to mention a decision from the Supreme Court of the United States which could also be interpreted as a sad day for civil discourse)
“Many likely voted for him, knowing little about it save that he was running on the same ticket as their beloved Barack Obama” – So….the voting citizens of Minnesota were simply too dumb to know who they were voting for? I’m sure you’d be really popular there right now. Keeping in mind that MN was the state that elected an independent for governor a few years back, I’d say they’re probably known for knowing the difference. Minnesotans sure aren’t all Rose Nylan.
itwil lbe worse in 2010 and 2012. ACORN and their fellow unipn thugs have been provided billions. If you thought the election fraud was bad in 2008, imagine what it iwll be in 2010 with unlimited money and corruption in both the sate and federal levels to get Democrats elected by hook or by crook
Expect the worst. You saw what the likes of Jennifer Brunner and her ilk did to further voter fraud in their state. 1000’s of dead people castingtheir votes and they fought tooth and nail to make sure that happened
Would my post have been different, Kevin, had the decision been handed down for Coleman? No, it would not. I may yet write the post I had planned had he won, focusing on his inept campaign and even more inept response to the Franken campaign’s legal maneuvering.
I grant that Coleman too should have done better and may yet address that, though given the decision it is less relevant now.
But, since you seem to disagree with my post, can you provide evidence showing that Franken is indeed popular in the Gopher State and that there is a freshman US Senator less popular than he?
So, instead of speculating what I may or may not have said, address what I actually did say.
Nope, NJ Bigot, He’s a Democrat homophobe, so you love him.
Correct, Livewire. He is a Democrat homophobe. I forgot about his comments demeaning gays a few years ago.
It’s ok. Gays like being part of the in-crowd to much to admit they are in a crowd of racist homophobes, The DNC.
Sorry, forgot cite
Now that this potty-mouthed two-bit clown is a Democrat senator, I expect some buyer’s remorse to set in.
Kevin – there’s a real possibility (likelihood) that some of the Franken votes were fraudulent. Starting right after the election, some of the “recounts” were statistically unlikely and other just plain stunk.
Oh well, we’re doomed anyway. What’s one more blathering fool?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122644940271419147.html
calling MN a dem state is not correct
There has not been a dem gov since 1991!
2 republican govs sandwiched between Jesse the Body. Its those folks who nominated the court that rejected Norms claims
#10
I see.
Since a dem won it must be fraud.
You are a typical republcian calling voters stupid & elections fraudualnt only when you lose
You are a typical republcian calling voters stupid & elections fraudualnt only when you lose
Do you think this is normal, gillie?
Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.
This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that “very likely there was a double counting.” Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.
In other cases, the board has been flagrantly inconsistent. Last month, Mr. Franken’s campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had “lost” 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge — officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night — the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.
Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he’s benefited both ways from the board’s inconsistency.
What a surprise. Obama Party-controlled officials and counties are stuffing ballot boxes by “forgetting” to mark duplicate ballots, and gillie is whining that this is OK, just like gillie whined that the Obama Party’s use of fraudulent voter registrations through ACORN was perfectly OK as well.
gillie, where did I call voters stupid?
and if Minnesota isn’t a Democratic state, how come it hasn’t voted for a Republican for President since 1972, the longest streak of any state
I think this blog entry is sour grapes and therefore, as a Democrat and liberal, I wish this entry and this blog had more readers. The loser’s lament attracts only losers.
It is astonishing to me that a person who is homosexual can feel at home within the Republican Party. I would love to see several polls by a variety of polling organizations ask Americans what their political views are and what they think of homosexuals. All my life I have heard Republicans say that homosexuality is like child molesting, that homosexuals will burn forever in Hell, and that we need to be protected from the homosexual agenda.
Why do you think Rush Limbaugh so often makes remarks about “bending over”? Is it his great love of gay Patriots?
I see that your “supporters” here in this thread have information about rigged elections. The Courts are rigged, the Media is rigged, ACORN is powerful.
I wonder how long it will take these friends to include Gay Patriot as part of that vast conspiracy of The Other which is the reason for the existence of all evil. My guess is they will turn on you so fast you will not even know what came and arrested you.
I just saw an article about the GOP in Oklahoma blaming this economic slowdown on homosexuals:
http://www.businessinsider.com/oklahoma-pol-blames-gays-for-the-bad-economy-2009-6
I really, really, wonder how a homosexual can feel at home in the Republican Party. I wish I could tape some of the things Republicans say about homosexuals when they think that there are none in the company.
tjproudamerican,
Well when it’s the official position of the administration that DOMA is constitutional, and the court briefs defending it compare SSM to incest and pedophelia, I can understand your feelings.
Oh, wait, that’s the current administration’s stance. And it’s approved by Barney Frank.
So now we can add Al Franken’s homophobia to the Democrat party. *shakes head* what a tool.
tjproudamerican-Oh no! Some Republicans down in Oklahoma are super anti-gay. I guess that means I give up everything else I believe in and support the Democratic party, a party which as of yet hasn’t mustered the courage to end DADT, which even most Republicans are fine with scraping (including this Republican and former member of the Navy). It’s quite easy to find members of both parties who won’t do a thing for GLBT causes, but generally speaking, Republicans won’t fool you into believing they are on your side the way Democrats do.
Dan, technically, I think Roland Burris is probably the least popular freshman senator, but I certainly get your point. Anyway, as a Minnesota Republican, I plan to move passed this election and start judging Al Franken for how he performs as a senator. I would hope Minnesota Republicans don’t do what Democrats did nationally after Florida 2000—continually look back bitterly at the result. While I am quite suspicious at the way the vote count and legal challenges were handled and even more suspicious of election day voter fraud, I don’t think Minnesota Republicans are going to succeed by indignantly arguing that the election was stolen from Coleman. I’d bet that Al Franken is going to be a major screwup as a senator, both in terms of tone and performance, judging by his past. Nevertheless, I do have to say that what he had to say yesterday was, IMHO, quite classy. And, of course, I thought what Norm Coleman said as he conceded was also very classy. Assuming that Norm Coleman was never going to ultimately win the legal challenge and return to the senate, it is best for Minnesota that both men were able to speak the way they did.
I hate voter fraud, and given the existence of groups like ACORN and the fact that Democrats have almost always opposed voting reforms like voter ID, I do believe that Democrats benefit a lot more from voter fraud than Republicans. Even so, elections are not normally determined by voter fraud but rather by the competence of a campaign and the candidates’ positions on issues.
Minnesota will have to go a loooong way before it reaches the stupidity level of my own Massachusetts!
oh, it’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for the repugnant republicans.
All my life I have heard Republicans say that homosexuality is like child molesting
Mainly because the gay community supports and endorses prostituting out children on websites and taking children dressed as sexual slaves to sex fairs for an “educational experience”.
Of course, liberal gays like tjproudamerican scream that anyone who opposes their doing so is “close-minded” and that it’s demonizing gays to ask that tj and his fellow Obama Party gays stop trying to teach gay sex to five year olds.
NDT You are simply full of crap. GPW, you are a hypocrite because you constantly defend your Republican homophobes. And LW, tell me how many anti-gay groups are run by Democrats; there are no Democratic equivalents of Tony Perkins, Matt Barber and Sally Kern and others of that ilk. You all get annoyed when I point out that anyone that seeks to restrict an entire group of people to second class citizens by denying them their civil rights are bigots so cut the crap.
And LW, tell me how many anti-gay groups are run by Democrats; there are no Democratic equivalents of Tony Perkins, Matt Barber and Sally Kern and others of that ilk.
How about Louis Farrakhan and Donnie McClurkin, for starters?
You all get annoyed when I point out that anyone that seeks to restrict an entire group of people to second class citizens by denying them their civil rights are bigots so cut the crap.
Except, of course, when it’s Barack Obama saying that he opposes gay marriage, when it’s John Kerry supporting state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, when it’s Harold Ford supporting the FMA, and when it’s Howard Dean firing gay staffers for complaining about discrimination.
Those you all call “pro-gay” and “gay-supportive”, so it’s clearly not “anyone”; indeed, it’s apparent that Obama Party members can do whatever they like and you shovel money and endorsements at them.
NDT You are simply full of crap.
Wrong. I cited clear examples. You simply are such a tool of the gay left that you’re incapable of condemning the gay community’s endorsement and support of child molestation. You’re so brainwashed that you would rather a five-year-old child be sold for sex on the internet than attack the promiscuous gay leftists who perform and support this behavior.
Are Buckeyes as stupid as Gophers? We should find out soon. Alec Baldwin is considering a run for governor of Ohio. As Jonah Goldberg has noted, “Alec Baldwin is too dumb to be a spell-checker at an M&M factory.” Considering the current Demonrat governor harbored a convicted pedophile on his staff, Alec Baldwin might actually be a step up.
I also don’t know if anyone has brought this up, but Minnesota has a system of “same day registration,” where you can show up, register, and vote on election day and all you need to “prove” residency is a school ID or a utility bill or a rental receipt, which are easy to fake (not that anyone will be checking). It’s a system ripe for abuse. It’s only too easy for out-of-state college students or a couple busloads of ACORN voters from Chicago to be parachuted into marginal precincts to up the vote for the Demonrats.
You all get annoyed when I point out that anyone that seeks to restrict an entire group of people to second class citizens by denying them their civil rights are bigots
Then good thing marriage isn’t a civil right, neh?
See, that’s the amusing part of your bigotry, NJBigot. You yourself won’t extend the ‘right’ of marriage to incestous and underaged couples, so you, by your own words, are a bigot. You just get terrified, like Medusa (or Mumm-Ra), you can’t withstand a mirror held up to show how hideous you are.
Of course, this phrase sends you running as well “You have the same privilege of a government recognized union with one (1) person, subject to the qualifications of your state of residence.”
bnl needs to get a new macro for the keyboard.
If, somehow, Alec Baldwin became Governour, I’d have to redeploy to Kentucky or somewhere sane.
More shenanigans: the Bureau of the Census has given the city of Detroit 81,000 imaginary residents. That’s 81,000 imaginary voters for ACORN to bring to the next election.
Since NJBigot constantly defends the Democrat Homophobes, does that make him a hypocrit by his own words? Hmm NJHypocriteBigot. Somebody needs a hug.
You all get annoyed when I point out that anyone that seeks to restrict an entire group of people to second class citizens by denying them their civil rights are bigots
You mean like Sondra Sotamayor tried to do with the New Haven firefighters?
V the K,
No, she’s like Al Franken, who, you’ll note, NJBigot changed the subject rather than condemn. She’s a good Liberal bigot.
Looking at the quality Republicans Gay Patriot draws as guest commentators here, I rest my case against the GOP and Conservatives as the actual living source of anti-homosexual legislation.
Gay Patriot:
if you were a chicken, you would be mourning the death of Colonel Sanders.
and why is that, tj?
Because like most libs, Ad hominins is all she has left.
Gay patriot is like a chicken for Colonel sanders because the Republican Party is a Bastion of anti-homosexuality.
I realize a conservative homosexual is doomed to either change his views or sit silently and support people who think Homosexuality is an abomination before God.
Why do you think Rush Limbaugh’s lowest insult for anyone is to say that the person “Bends over”?
And I have been accused endlessly of having no sense of humor because so many everyday Republicans make watermelon jokes about Obama and regard homosexuality as a crime, mental illness, and mortal sin.
But good luck being the token Gay guy everyone points to.
I have been accused endlessly of having no sense of humor
It’s probably because you’re a left-wing sourpuss who gets offended at the slightest hint of political incorrectness.
*feh* ‘Token gay’ indeed.
I used to joke about being Bruce and Dan’s ‘token straight guy’ but with V the K and others posting frequently it doesn’t apply.
Of course people like tj and NJBigot (who really needs a hug) can’t understand the joke. I’m not a ‘token’ anything. It’s my ideas and words and actions that are weighed, and valued here, not my choice of bedmates.
I think jokes about Obama having a watermelon patch and being only a pair of spooked out eyes are despicable.
As I say, if you are Gay and/or black and/or anything but a “Real American”, you will get lots of opportunies to laugh at yourself as your Republican friends tell jokes that are not “PC”.
It is because they hate you, really.
So in some future life God will allow you to be a “Chicken for the ethical treatment of Colonel Sanders”.
God Bless all bigots and good luck to you!!!!
I hope everyone learns to laugh at the “other”. Maybe you can wear a bell so they can hear you coming…..
And again, another troll reduced to repeating the same old, debunked, talking points over and over.
I find the Colonel Sanders bit funny, since he was able to build a franchise with the efforts of making a better cheaper product. Free Enterprise at its finest.
It’s even more amusing since tj likely stands with ‘queers for Palistine.’
GPW.
In your January post you wrote:
That’s an excellent suggestion. (Whether the Republicans have the balls to do any such thing is an open question.)
But whatever the Senate Republicans do, and whatever the people of Minnesota do, we can all enjoy ourselves by reminding everyone (and not the least Franken himself) that Sen. Franken was selected, not elected. 🙂
tjproudamerican at #37:
Wrong. Spectacularly wrong, in fact. If they gave out medals for being mistaken, you’d win a gold one for sure.
As I have said on this very blog — and more than once — political conservatism and religious reaction are not the same thing.
Probably because the lefties are always trying to shove some new bit of idiocy up our asses.
Wow, you really know some lousy Republicans, don’t you.
Would you like to know about some of the everyday Democrats I know? People who expect to get something for nothing and can never defend their political thinking? People who believe that the World Trade Center was destroyed by the US government? No, you probably don’t want to hear any of that.
Good luck to you with your new moniker: tjstupidandobnoxious
Oh my gosh, classic liberal dave, are you Voltaire come back from the grave? You are a very witty man.
again, tj can’t refute anything so he’s reduced to feeble attempts at insults.