Comments on: A WARNING FOR RITCHIE: WHEN FRANKEN LOSES RECOUNT AND TAKES CONTEST TO THE U.S. SENATE, YOU WILL BECOME THE DEMOCRATS “FALL GUY”

By: AS PREDICTED, RITCHIE BECOMING “FALL GUY” AS NATIONAL DEMOCRATS COMPLAIN ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY IN MINNESOTA | Minnesota Democrats Exposed

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:33:49 +0000

[...] Ten days ago, I warned Secretary of State Mark Ritchie that national Democrats would blame him should the recount go bad for Team Franken. [...]

By: hiram

hiram — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:58:58 +0000

“Of course it doesnâ€™t, hiram; of course it doesnâ€™t. Fraudulent, genuine, a Frankenballot is a Frankenballot to you fools.”

And a Colemanballot is Colemenballot. Even a Barkleyballot is a Barkleyballot. Let’s count them all.

By: Flash

Flash — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:16:02 +0000

Who ever gets the most votes wins. Why do you hate Democracy so much MikeDEceit. You know what we know, that in the end, Franken becomes out Senator! Get used to it!

Hey, its Moonbat Swiftee Pffffftttt Buwahahahahahaha

Flash

By: John Clawson

John Clawson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:07:07 +0000

This nonsense about the faulty/corrupt/incompetent elections is just that: nonsense. Mindless blather by a bunch of people who have never been closer to an election than a ballot. Not withstanding the caveat that no human-created system is perfect, the Minnesota election system is as perfect as one can get. For a system that relies on part-timers and hobbyists to carry it off, there IS NO PROBLEM with how Minnesotans vote. There is NO widespread/systemic voter fraud in Minnesota (document it!) and even junk like the isloated-incident 84-year old stroke victim and the ballots in the trunk of the car had to be made up in order to sully the work of the administrators and local officials in this election. There ARE states wherein systematic voter intimidation and attempts to discourage are the norm; Minnesota DOES NOT happen to be among them. Otherwise, DOCUMENT IT.

By: Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:22:00 +0000

And what part of Ramsey County investigating ACORN left their actions in Minnesota unexamined?

(http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/31233534.html?elr=KArksUUUU)

By: Swiftee

Swiftee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:20:53 +0000

Of course it doesn’t, hiram; of course it doesn’t. Fraudulent, genuine, a Frankenballot is a Frankenballot to you fools…

By: hiram

hiram — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:33:44 +0000

“Ritchie has refused to call for an investigation into the actions of ACORN, even though that group of travelling hucksters is being investigated in 17 other states where they were raising the dead and extending the franchise to cartoon characters.”

That has nothing to do with the counting of ballots.

By: Swiftee

Swiftee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:16:20 +0000

Ritchie has refused to call for an investigation into the actions of ACORN, even though that group of travelling hucksters is being investigated in 17 other states where they were raising the dead and extending the franchise to cartoon characters.

Ritchie does not bite the hand that feeds him.

By: Swiftee

Swiftee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:12:54 +0000

Looks like you’ve hit some meat with that shot, Mike.

Feckless Jeffy’s skirt is billowing, Leroy is hiding behind a smoking gun and David Brauer is left ~~Brainless~~ speechless.

We’ve seen the careless way the party of Scrubs throws it’s sycophants under the bus when they’re through with them, and when Ritchie fails to swing the election over to them, his puppetmasters will cut his strings too.

By: Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:08:47 +0000

J Ewing-

How about providing an example of how Ritchie is, “either criminally or incompetently managing this election and recount.”

Saying that Jason Lewis has told you so does not count. I want actual decisions that Ritchie has made that have tilted this election in favor of one candidate or the other.

By: hiram

hiram — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:05:03 +0000

It seems to me that Ritchie has been doing a pretty good job. He has appointed a canvassing board which no one seems to have a problem with. It’s headed up by Minnesota’s chief justice, a Republican, and a Pawlenty appointee, who is widely respected throughout the community.

No one can say at this point who has “legally-won” this seat. That’s what the recount will determine. I know I will accept the results of the recount whatever they might be. Will you?

By: J. Ewing

J. Ewing — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:39:50 +0000

Glad to hear I’m not part of the Republican establishment, because I think it’s plain that Ritchie is either criminally or incompetently managing this election and recount. I hope he doesn’t deliberately or accidentally steal this election for Al Franken.

If a challenge does go to the Senate, curiously enough it will be Norm’s very vexing (to Republicans) tendency to “work across the aisle” which will give him an advantage in keeping his legally-won seat. Of course, Democrats forget all of that when political power is on the line. Norm should know they would squash him like a bug if he stood between them and 60 votes.

By: hiram

hiram — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:41:14 +0000

Al, angry or owtherwise, is in no position to wreak vengeance on the DFL or anyone else, and that’s part of the problem. Al doesn’t have much of a following in the DFL establishment. If he loses, he will disappear. And it certainly isn’t in the interest of Mark Ritchie, if he has any interest at all in a political career in Minnesota to run a recount that is perceived as unfair. Except for a lot of rather hysterical talk from Norm’s somewhat overheated lawyer, even the Republican establishment seems to have grudgingly accepted that Ritchie’s actions so far have been basically fair.

By: Average Joe

Average Joe — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:07:00 +0000

Youâ€™re wrong, Mike. I know, this is what the GOP would do. Weâ€™re not the GOP.

You’re worse. You have no conscience. When Angry Al loses he will turn scorched earth, eating DFL young to win this thing. This is about raw power and liberals stop at nothing to hold it.

By: hiram

hiram — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:57:43 +0000

I don’t expect the senate to in any way reject the outcome of the recount. Barring extraordinary circumstances, I would think it would be a mistake for either Coleman or Franken, depending on the outcome, to ask them to.

By: David Brauer

David Brauer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:14:48 +0000

Is this what they mean by a concern troll?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:44:32 +0000

Bah, and my D.C. sources say the Senate’s first order of business to debate about my ass.

By: Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:38:42 +0000

And I am willing to bet that after all of the time you have spent questioning his ability to do his job, his fitness for office and many other less appropriate things, your counsel will be the first Ritchie asks for should this, unlikely, result occur.

The bottom line is, even the governor has tossed aside the Ron Carey and Norm Coleman’s playbook, which appears to be based entirely on assulting Minnesota’s elections. Ron and Norm are, once again, trying to scare the people into believing that there is a boogeyman behind every bush, and that all the cast ballots are being left out on tables at DFL headquarters around the state next to a pile of blank ballots and a cup of pens.

The problem with this theory is that the republicans have yet to find a SINGLE case of voter fraud or any other sort of shenanigan that would allow doubt to be cast on the great job Mark Ritchie is doing. You can allude and imply with the best of them, but no actual evidence exists that would cause Minnesotans to believe the line Ron and Norm are trying to pitch.

I guess that fact that Minnesotans no longer believe Norm is a fitting way for his Senate career to end.

By: Jeff Fecke

Jeff Fecke — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:16:28 +0000

You’re wrong, Mike. I know, this is what the GOP would do. We’re not the GOP.