Stuart Smalley For Senate!
Posted on 06/02/2004 11:48:34 AM PDT by Destro
Edited on 06/02/2004 11:59:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
No joke: Al Franken considering a Senate run
By ROB HOTAKAINEN
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
May 25, 2004
NEW YORK - No professional comedian has ever been elected to the U.S. Senate, according to Capitol Hill historians, but Al Franken is seriously thinking about trying to become the first.
By the end of next year, Franken said he expects to decide whether to move from New York City to his native Minnesota to take on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008. If he runs, he would seek to reclaim the seat of his hero and friend, the late Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone.
"When Paul said something, whether you agreed with it or not, you knew where he stood," Franken said. "And that's a great thing. I kinda like the idea of my running because I think I'm in a position to do that, and it might be for having have been a comedian. You know, I feel like I can say what I want to say."
Franken, interviewed outside a New York skyscraper that hosts his new liberal radio talk show, said his decision will depend partly on the fate of his new show and whether a stronger candidate emerges.
Should be about as successful as his radio show.
If he's really considering a senate run, it IS a joke.
His rants probably would be more effective if he had more than 50 listeners.
It's got to be, otherwise I am ROFL for nada.
see Al, hear Al speak, see Al fail; run Al run
As a Minnesotan, the idea of Al Franken running for the Senate sounds about as appealing as how most Ohioans feel when asked about a Jerry Springer candidacy.
Franken is a self-absorbed, bloviating major-league Clymer.
Franken's a comedian?
He appeals only to the rabid hate-filled loonies of the far far left.
Eighty-eight percent of people who have ever heard his name find him to be a repulsive fat troll who was last entertaining sometime around 1978.
(Wellstoneapalooza had far more belly laughs than his failed network sitcom.)
"there's little doubt Franken is hot in Washington's Democratic circles."
If true, this is really sad.
Well, he should run. Put his money where his mouth is.
Isn't Air America down to Al Franken and a megaphone in Times Square next to "The Naked Cowboy?"
He needs something to do after his radio show goes bust I guess. Stuart Smalley for Senate. lol
How can you say 'No joke'?!?
Franken in Congress would be a freakin' joke!
Stuart Smalley For Senate!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why Al Franken appears merely ugly until you hear him speak. Hes also stoopid..
Franken's show is doing better than Rush's among 25-54 year old males in NYC? Preaching to the choir. Franken's show has given lefty males in NY something to do other than play with themselves.
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and-
Van/River Guy:
Shut up you liberal tool!
Smalley:
Now, I don't think that name-
Farley character:
I said: "Cram it up your pie-hole pinko!" You're gonna' be smart enough...TO LIVE IN A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER, once that crap-fest you call a talk radio show runs out!
Smalley:
Please, I don't think your negativity-
Van Dude:
I got some negativity for you.
How would like to be thrice-divorced, alimony payments to your disabled whore of a wife, bills up the wazoo and LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER?
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