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WASHINGTON TIMES: “DEMS LOSE FOOTING FOR GAINS IN NOVEMBER”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | May 6, 2008
“‘Saturday Night Live’ veteran Al Franken should have had an easier run for U.S. Senate in Minnesota against an embattled Republican incumbent but is being dogged by $70,000 in unpaid taxes and is slipping in the polls — just one of the topsy-turvy races clouding Democrats’ expectations of big gains in November.
The Franken tax flap, a bruising Democratic primary in Oregon and signs of trouble for the Democratic incumbent in New Jersey have Senate Republicans thinking they might salvage a bad election year from a potentially terrible one.” Source: Washington Times, May 5, 2008
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May 6th, 2008 at 10:21 am
“A Rasmussen Reports poll shows Mr. Coleman captured 50 percent of surveyed voters for the first time and opened a seven-point lead over Mr. Franken. The incumbent had a thin lead, 48 percent to 46 percent, in March and Mr. Franken enjoyed a three-point lead in February.”
Hey look, Frank Alan’s idiotic theory that the last several months haven’t damaged Al Franken is also dead wrong.
Frank, why are you such a dumb sonofabitch?
May 6th, 2008 at 10:22 am
How many editors has Sun Myung Moon chased through this paper in it’s short life for their unwillingness to allow conservative values to trump facts?
Got to be close to a dozen by now.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:24 am
LOL, good on Frank! Yeah, Rasmussen Reports… another branch of the vast right wing conspiracy.
LOL! What a funny dumb sonofabitch you are.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Speaking of newspapers who allow their liberal ideology to trump facts, hows the New York Times doing? I also hear the Strib is teetering on bankruptcy.
Oh… so sad.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:53 am
The article reads, in part:
“Mr. Coleman in 2002 narrowly defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, who was running a hastily organized campaign after incumbent Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash weeks before an election. Mr. Franken’s campaign has hit some snags, but Mr. Coleman’s once-strong support for Mr. Bush and the Iraq war haven’t endeared him to many Minnesotans.”
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I think that this situation is [also] about a Norm Coleman who is not endeared to many Minnesotans, an Al Franken who has been damaged, the rising numbers of Jack Pallmeyer-Nelson, and the potential of Mike Ciresi who can IDENTIFY AND ATTRACT those MANY voters in the MINNESOTA MIDDLE.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
El pres, you forget that fact that MN Voters had had enough of Wellstone and he was about to be handed a defeat!
Wellstone is by far the worst senator we have ever elected to this state. His supporters can never go on about his accoplishments, just can note how much passion he had for his beliefs. 
That is code for we know he did not accoplish shit, but he talked the liberal talk, so he is a democRat God. 
Coleman was going to lose to Mondale due to the sympathy vote, but then the democRats turned it into a political rally and MN voters had enough and sent the democRats packing.
2008 will be very much like 2002, the democRats are in more trouble than they will ever admit.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
It is sad, really, that this site has degenerated into a place for hate mongers like Big Kahuna and Chestnut to spew their ill-informed rantings and aggressive forms of hate on any who dare hold contrary opinions.
But, I guess this is Michael’s way of ensuring that this remains an echo chamber free of fully-examined thought.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Big Kahuna,
Time is a great teacher.
Take out your digital camera. Take a photo of what you have just written. Print a photo. Read it when you consider yourself to be a senior citizen.
-or-
If you can’t wait that long –
Get Senator Norm Coleman to sign and endorse what you have written.
[I think that my (Minnesota) Pacific Islander friends might consider your comments disgraceful to the ancient name "kahuna."]
May 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Frank Alan writes: “I guess this is Michael’s way of ensuring that this remains an echo chamber free of fully-examined thought.”
Despite Michael’s apparent success, according to you, in creating “an echo chamber”, we see left-wing comments by Frank Alan and el presidente here and by those two and Tommy TwoPutt elsewhere on this blog.
Somehow, someway, the comments comments of those three and others like them on the left manage to get posted despite the diabolic efforts of MB to create a left-wing free “echo chamber”.
Funny how that works.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Franky, you make me laugh. What’s sad is watching you cower back here ever five minutes to have another one of your lame-brained ideas shot to shit.
I’m sorry that your “contrary opinions” don’t hold water, and that you’re comments are so easily punctured.
My rants are anything but ill informed. For example, in the last two posts, I fully proved how boneheaded, ignorant and wrong your “contrary opinions” were. Maybe sometime you should try basing your opinions on facts found in the reality-based world… you might even find an ounce of respect. Until then, you’ll just be referred to as “that dumb sonofabitch, Frank.”
Examine your own thoughts you dipshit.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Good point Stonewall. The other sad thing about the comment from that dumb sonofabitch, Frank, is that if his, Tommy’s and others comments are representative of the best of Leftist thought, the Democrat Party is more bankrupt and desperate than we though.
I should be careful though… I don’t want to lump in Eva, kathy (yes, even kathy) and a few others in with those retards.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Some of the best of Liberal thought is now universally accepted as “main stream and/or standard MIDDLE MINNESOTA” thought.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Political issues that receive attention in MN, Vermont, Oregon and other historically left-of-center states aren’t accepted as “mainstream” or middle American thought.
Here is an example:
Yesterday, State Senator Ellen Anderson (DFL-St. Paul) moved a bill forward that would essentially rewrite people’s mortgages for them—under the assumption that these people were somehow cheated, mislead or otherwise, while in the process of signing their (subprime) mortgage.
The bill stands absolutely no chance to becoming law and I sincerely doubt that Gov. Pawlenty will even bother to read the bill’s garbage language before reaching for the Taxpayer Protection Pen.
(For El pres, Frank Alan and Tom Johnson, that is the veto pen, we all understand that you must’ve been 3 of the 51% that fail out of the Mpls public school system)
The bill is a serious slap in the face to anyone who has ever paid a mortgage payment on time.
Here is the difference folks: In other states, bullshit bills like this don’t even get hearings in their state legislatures, much less are voted upon as if they are serious measures.
Here in MN, sure the bill got attention—but the thrust of my post is that it is not ACCEPTED as mainstream or representational as a good bill for middle-class, working families.
Just because the DFL is in the Senate majority doesn’t place every bill in the mainstream category.
Moreover, I’m told that Sen. Anderson has decided to run for Governor in 2010.
This, from a person who openly says on the Senate floor that her son is afraid to die from Global Warming.
I’m still waiting for some political courage from some conservative leaders and elected Republicans to stand up and call this bill what it is:
A bill to solve the problems for brain-dead, greedy, uneducated, poverty-stricken fools who somehow, through their own sense of entitlement think that making $25,000 per year can somehow pay a mortgage for a $250,000 house.
If Sen. Anderson thinks her “record of accomplishment” is enough to carry her into the Governor’s office……she has already lost.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
A little of Garrison Kiellor’s Homegrown Democrat or some of his CD’s on Liberals might help cure some of that “brain-dead, greedy, uneducated, poverty-stricken” way in that you look at people vs capital.
The intake Sharing and Caring Hands [Mary Jo Copeland] is within the City Limits of the Minneapolis Public School District.
So is the new Twins Baseball Stadium.
However, the new Baseball Stadium folks, and the Sharing and Caring hands outreach folks had a dispute that was shown over the televison broadcast news.
The [predominately/originally Catholic Outreach] Program of Sharing and Caring hands has too many social problems to be juxtaposed with the new Baseball Stadium and other developments.
Just like the National GOP Convention is moving in, so the DOROTHY DAY CENTER is no longer PART OF THE MAINSTREAM.
Dick Cheney was not part of the MAINSTREAM who went to the Republic of South Vietnam but, he seems to have no problem sending other people’s [adult] children to IRAQ.
After Cheney’s college deferments came the “other priority” deferments. They happened to coincide with his wife being pregnant.
Norm Coleman failed his local draft induction physical. Was he mainstream?
Would a local draft board in Minnesota put up with what he might have pulled off with a local draft board in New York?
MINNESOTA LIBERALS have MINNESOTA AND AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
It is also MIDDLE MINNESOTA AND AMERICAN THOUGHT.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Holy cow!! El Pres, you have had enough, put down the drink and go take a nap. God you come off as such a flipping idiot and apparently have some kind of attention disorder as more often than not your posts have absolutly nothing to do with the discussion at hand.
Go lay by your damn dish!
May 6th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I think el prez needs a long talk with his pediatrician.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
“… than we though. “
Why is it you pathetic bootlickers can’t stand up and speak for yourself?
Oh, wait – it’s because you’re pathetic bootlickers!!!
Carry on….
May 6th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Gotta say to Big Kuhuna that the worst Senator was Dayton not Wellstone.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Say, dolt #1?
Why can’t Angry Al stand up and speak for himself? When are you going to help your boy ‘man up’?
May 6th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
~The clash of some values of the moving IN of the National GOP Convention, and the FORCED moving OUT of the Dorothy Day Center.
~The clash some values of the moving IN of the new Baseball Stadium and the forces trying to move OUT Mary Jo Copeland’s Sharing and Caring Hands OutReach program.
~The clash of some values of Dick Cheney who applied for, and received, college and family-type deferments from his local military draft board that enabled him to bypass military service, when others served in the Republic of South Vietnam.
Now after almost eight (8) years in office as VP Dick Cheney has helped to send over 4,000 US military personnel to their graves.
~The clash of some values of Norm Coleman when he failed his draft board physical for being too skinny after allegedly going on a crash diet, to avoid military service.
Now, however, he has joined the VP and the President in supporting the war in Iraq.
The aforementioned are clashes in values. I think that they are important and just as much on topic as the rest of the posts under this title.