If Sarah Palin and John McCain are indeed correct about looking at a person’s past to determine their future, then by their standards we should expect very little from Norm Coleman if he is somehow re-elected. Norm Coleman has not been a bad senator, just a non-descript one. His main achievement has been playing lapdog to the Bush/Cheney administration. Norm looked the other way while no-bid, Republican connected, contractors looted the American treasury in Iraq. Norm fought hard to secure torture as an instrument of American foreign policy.

He did help Sen. Amy Klobuchar secure money to replace the I-35W bridge and he refused to allow drilling in ANWR so he does have a couple of positive accomplishments, but that’s about it.

Norm Coleman keeps talking about bi-partisanship but the truth is, for Norm, that means he gets 90% or more and the other side gets 10% or less. That’s why his “bi-partisan” talk is just that – talk! Norm Coleman finds one Democrat (usually Sen. Liebermann) to support a Republican bill and that makes it bi-partisan. But when a Republican (oftentimes Sen. Hegel) crosses over to support a Democratic intiative, he calls it “just partisan politics as usual”.

Al Franken will be a much more forceful, thoughtful senator. We tried Norm Coleman on for size but his six years have proved a bad fit for Minnesota.

He did help Sen. Amy Klobuchar secure money to replace the I-35W bridge and he refused to allow drilling in ANWR so he does have a couple of positive accomplishments, but that’s about it.

Norm Coleman keeps talking about bi-partisanship but the truth is, for Norm, that means he gets 90% or more and the other side gets 10% or less. That’s why his “bi-partisan” talk is just that – talk! Norm Coleman finds one Democrat (usually Sen. Liebermann) to support a Republican bill and that makes it bi-partisan. But when a Republican (oftentimes Sen. Hegel) crosses over to support a Democratic intiative, he calls it “just partisan politics as usual”.

Al Franken will be a much more forceful, thoughtful senator. We tried Norm Coleman on for size but his six years have proved a bad fit for Minnesota.

Snnnk….yeah, I’m sure you were all goospimply and teary the propeller on your pointy little head was all spinny and stuff.

Heh…friggin’ moonbats crack me up.

Say, Hayduke? Suck it, assnozzle.

The rsponses I read here contradict Michael’s thread headline! I will catch a repeat of the debate and decide for myself before I comment.

Take a look at this, posted by a proud conservative in Eden Prairie:

http://williamgwood.home.comcast.net/~williamgwood/P9230001.JPG

Oh brother. Every answer he gave last night showed he doesn’t know a thing about issues but spouts nothing but leftie bumper sticker non-sense. And the idea he cares about anything except himself, as witnessed by his lack of caring for his employees in not paying workers comp, not caring about the reputation of his accountant by not letting him speak, and not caring about his fellow Hot Air America employees since he took the cash while everyone else got nothing, demonstrates my point.

Toxic Al’s toast. When Dean Barkley cleans your clock, along with Norm showing his usual experience and compassion, the tired tax cheat’s going home.

Coleman looked sickly. Give me 3 times he worked in a bipartisan manner to get anything done in Washington.

My vote goes to Franken. He is well educated, well studied, and cares.

…that “I know what it’s like to not pay my taxes. To write porn. To joke about rape. I know what it’s like to not pay workers comp and cheat on my taxes….”

That’s his “credibility”.

He sounded awful. Someone needed to hand him a Mountain Dew because he looked dead. There was nothing “powerful” about him except that he was looking powerfully inept, bored, inexperienced and lacking in any degree of credibility to say he’d be able to get anything done. In short, Dean Barkley should be the DFL candidate because he’s much better than Toxic Al.

Norm did very well. Compassion, experience – he looked Senatorial.