So long as we’re clear.

It’s not as if Al joked about starting a nuclear war with the Russkies, or nuthin’….

Oh, wait:

“My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

Yet he’s a hero to card-carryin’ republiCons, to this day.

In other words, Chestnut, thank you for demonstrating, once again: “That was then; this is now, and GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.”

Pretty sure that’s not on par with opposing gay marriage, or supporting responsible sex education programs.

Norm Coleman as Mayor of St Paul, made a point of publicly picking fights with gays over signing the Gay Pride Proclamation. His successor, Randy Kelly didn’t follow suit with that one.

Coleman’s voting record on this issue – except for the hate crimes, hasn’t been good. His voting record on AIDS might be better, though I’m sure he’s supported Abstinence Only – condoms don’t work sex education programs – that give dangerous messages. Abstinence is going to be safer than condoms. But use of condoms is safer than not using condoms. A condoms don’t work message suggests that there is no point to using condoms. That’s a very poor public health message.

For Tom Swift – aka, Swiftee, the only good gay is an ex-gay, and his unhinged rants about gays on his blog, in comments sections of other blogs, and on the St Paul Issues list and other E Democracy Lists are a matter of public record. There’s definitely hostility from Tom Swift towards gays as a community.

I think that substantive discussion should include some background as to why Al Franken is unqualified and incapable of participating in substantive discussion of the issues… primarily, because he is a hateful, mentally unstable, nincompoop.

I’m in favor of healthy minds…treatment, not hatred is called for.

Why not?…*you* did.

You think there is footage quoted as saying he “Hates “those” motherf*ckers”? Or were you just flapping your moonbat lips, a-gain, Hiram.

Angry Al is my favorite Democrat candidate right now. If I have to hear the bleating of the moonbat left, I like to be assured that there will be a “Hatch” style meltdown in the offing…just for my own, personal amusement.

I don’t think you want to go there. I think the voters of Minnesota would be best served by a substantive discussion of the issues, not a series of examinations of the respective personal histories of the respective candidates.

This made me spit-laugh my coffee.

Thanks! Seems Al Franken isn’t the only one who takes is joke of a career seriously.

Al was a professional comedian. One good thing about that is that people can always tell when he is joking because they laugh. With so many conservatives, too often that’s not the case. When they say something foolish, the common excuse is that “I was just joking” glossing over the fact that there was nothing funny about the original comment. With Al at least, you know when he is being funny and when he is being serious, something of a rare quality among today’s politicians.

It’s a notable departure from where Norm Coleman has been in the past on this stuff.

It’s also notable to point out that Coleman voted in favor of the hate crimes bill, and will be interesting to see how he votes on the Employment NonDiscrimination Act and Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell – neither of which is about gay marriage.

In the past, Norm Coleman publicly picked fights with the gay community for political gain. He had a lit piece about that at the 98 convention when he ran for governor. When I and others met with him – as part of the LCR meeting with him, I had that lit piece – and asked him about the piece. He said he “had to do this”, if I remember correctly. I responded that he made a choice. This was when he ran against Alan Quist.

Now it’s still early in the campaign season, and will be interesting to see whether Coleman goes back to what he’s done in the past about this issue to try to energize the anti-gay activists in the Minnesota Family Council and their ilk nationally:

http://republicansforfamilyvalues.com/2008/01/02/a-stern-warning-to-the-conservative-elites-about-mitt-romney/

Anyways. This whole website is a joke.

And I find it highly ironic that the party that claims “a man’s home is his castle” puts and asterisk behind that: “* – unless you’re gay.”

Make no mistake – if republicans had their way, it’d still be illegal to be gay.