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GAME ON: COLEMAN DROPS NEGATIVE ADS; TEAM FRANKEN RESPONDS BY REFERRING TO COLEMAN AS “AN ARSONIST”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 10, 2008
In response to U.S. Senator Norm Colman’s announcement that his campaign will cease all negative advertisements, Team Franken referred to Coleman “an arsonist.” Minnesota shouldn’t be surprised with continued negativity from Team Franken.
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October 10th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Like we expect anything different from a potty-mouthed, dirty-minded, porn-writing, no class tax cheat.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
It’s called an analogy, a figure of speach, but I guess you’re too dumb to figure that out.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
“”"Given that this week’s polls are clearly showing that Minnesotans are sick of Norm Coleman’s campaign of character assassination, today’s stunt rings as a cynical ploy designed to change the subject and avoid scrutiny of his own record. It’s like an arsonist burning down every house in the village and then asking to be named fire chief.”"”
Hmmmm, does that mean we can start calling him Chief Coleman *laughing*
October 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Let’s see….do you really think that Franken will allow Coleman to call the shots? Coleman throws slime. When it is returned and Coleman’s slime isn’t wearing well, he decides that everyone should call it off and play nice in the sandbox. Would you all agree if it had happened in reverse? I think not.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Did you already forget what Coleman asked you to do?
October 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Coleman hides behind surrogates since last march; now that he’s behind he wants to call the dogs off?
What a wuss. He made this mess, he can wallow in it.
BTW – any idea who’s name is on ol’ Smokescreen’s utility bill, at the D.C. digs?
October 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Looks like all the whiners who’ve complained about the “negative ads” really don’t want them to stop.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Apparently Coleman is taking a page from Eric Paulsen’s playbook, and he plans to go invisible, allowing others to do all his talking and thinking.
Fortunately for all Minnesotans, it isn’t working for Paulsen either.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Coleman freaked about about this ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljrh72Qy1tw&eurl=http://www.alfranken.com/content/video_detail/?id=74
Oh, and his poll numbers sinking like a rock.
But, I guess he’s all okay now that after a year of running personal attacks, he suddenly swore it off. Guess what, this is going to backfire as well once the third parties ramp up the personal attacks and people laugh at the fact that Coleman, who started all of this mess, suddenly is trying to act above it.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
PD, that’s the beauty of Coleman; if you don’t agree with him today – don’t worry, he’ll change!
And that’s why hard-core rightwingers don’t trust Norm; they know he’s just a RINO they simply can’t trust.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Who was it that started with the negative ads?
Oh, yeah, now I remember. Coleman is apparently adopting Truman’s adage as a new campaign strategy.
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
October 10th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
The voters of Minnesota will be happy not to see negitive ads from Coleman from here on out (lets ignore the reality that he might have to go back to them), but I think the term is day late dollar short.
Just like Al Franken can’t just not pay his taxes for 5 years, and then pay them now, bailout Normy can’t air these ads for 6 months and pull out with 3 weeks to go.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Mike, Coleman gets it and now McCain gets it too.
Time for you to fold the personal attack tent, and start writing about issues that our elected officials will need to deal with.
If you do, you’ll have more relevance, not less. If you don’t, it will reflect back on the candidates you claim to support.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
The candidates talk about the issues. Supports support however they can.
Al Franken doesn’t know how to pay taxes, he has no right to vote in the US Senate.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Classy move by Coleman. Can’t say as much for Franken’s camp.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
DtM, apparently ol’ Smokescreen’s backers didn’t get the memo.
They’re still running attack ads.
Hard to believe, isn’t it? republiCons saying one thing, and doing something different….
October 10th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
It makes all kinds of sense from Coleman’s viewpoint. He couldn’t possible be as nastily negative as Angry Al, so he’s changing his game plan to an area where he CAN compete.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Franken has proven the libs standerd cry that “the rich don’t pay taxes”
He’s right about the rich (like himself) not paying taxes he got caught during his run for the next wellstone wannebe tax cheat, ya see wellstone himself didn’t pay workers comp.
Once again showing how libtards are the party of “do as I say not as I do”
October 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Wade, you stupid (cheney).
Are you really gonna play that stupid “____ didn’t pay workers comp!” v. “yeah, but ____ didn’t pay workers comp, either!!” Game?
I’m guessing you want to, because it’s a stupid (cheney)in’ game, which matches your (lack of) mentality.
When your party gets stomped in November, remember it’s jerks like you that they’re rejecting, too.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
A play on words. Al meant it, IMO, in a political sense.
What Norm Coleman has done was set fire to his own campaign for re-election by going negative. He couldn’t defend his own record.
Nor could Norm set fire to Al’s camapign, for Al was getting out all the crap about Norm’s record.
Senator Al Franken. Has a nice ring to it.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Fuck Coleman. Fuck Franken. Their both a coupe of nit-wits unfitting serious consideration.
Norm lost my vote last week when he voted for that goddam bailout bill. It’s clear he lacks the judgment to have the privilege of representing me anywhere.
Al Franken is a socialist pile of crap, who left Minnesota 30 years ago and who has spent the last 15 years peddling hate.
No self-respecting Minnesotan can vote for Al Franken. Nobody who votes for that ass is voting for the man, they’re casting a blind, stupid vote the party that has stood more often with tyrants and communists than it has with it’s own country.
Dean Barkley, for all his flaws, gets my vote. There’s nothing Norm can do to win me back.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Let me make this even more clear. Everybody to votes for Al Franken would also vote for a bag of leaves, so long as the bag of leaves belonged to the DFL.
Sadly, the bag of leaves would have more substance and better judgment than Al Franken.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:07 am
You should be able to vote for the person you don’t like the most.
A vote for Barkley is a vote for Franken… A complete nightmare and MN will be a laughingstock for the 2nd time in my relatively short life. The Body and then Stuart Smalley??? What’s next? Triumph the Insult Dog for Pres???
Nightmare. Norm, pull it together!
October 11th, 2008 at 6:28 am
A vote for Barkley is at best the same as a vote for anyone but Coleman. Bailout Normy pissed to many people off, and lets face it if 50% of Norms current supporters go to Barkley Franken will lose.
The Republicans need to run a fiscal conservitive next time around.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:11 am
And if a not-very-conservative Coleman loses to a radical lefty, the Republicans will rightly conclude that they need to have a still more leftward candidate to win. If you want a conservative candidate, you had best buy one now, while you still can.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
J. Ewing, the lasting legacy of this election, is that conservatism is dead because it simply doesn’t work.
The very first lesson from The Bible is that people cheat; why you GOPers want to insist on de-regulation when from mankind’s very beginning mankind cheated, only goes to show the hypocrisy of conservatism.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Tommy, dip shit, one has to wonder if stronger regulation were such a great idea and would have prevented the housing melt down, WHY WERE DEMOCRATS SO OPPOSED TO IMPROVING REGULATION OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.
They can’t say they weren’t warned. McCain authored legislation to make it happen. Democrats blocked it. McCain and 19 other Senators authored a letter very clearly articulating the risk and the path to resolving it. Democrats sat on their hands.
“It is vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that these institutions benefit from strong and independent regulatory supervision, operate in a safe and sound manner, and are primarily focused on their statutory mission. More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event either GSE should fail.”
One has to wonder whether it was the fact that Democrats were taking millions from Fannie and Freddie, or whether it was the fact that Democrats created, Democrats operated and Democrats mis-managed Fannie and Freddie as the reason why Democrats blocked regulatory reform to head off this crisis.
Democrats, always fucking everything up. Democrats always blaming someone else for their irresponsibility.
Fucking stupid, worthless, fat, lazy, crooked DEMOCRATS.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
OMG!! The lefty libtards are out in farce. You shitheads make intelligent people laugh. We love seeing you assholes go over the top with your attempts to silence real Americans. It always backfires. The entire financial quagmire was caused by liberal democrat assholes who forced banks to write loans they knew were bad. I love confronting piece of shit libtards.