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Hey now, not everyone here voted for Franken. If we had all jumped off that bridge, there’d be no need for Acorn et. al. to manufacture the additional votes he needs in order to steal the seat fair and square. So, they'll manufacture votes in areas of downtown Minneapolis that aren't even zoned residential, and they'll magically find uncounted ballot boxes on the Indian Reservations. It golly gee, surprise, surprise, all of the uncounted, miscounted votes will be for Franken. Thankfully, subtlety is not their strong point.

What's funny is that our ballots here require you to color in a circle next to the candidates name. No hanging chads possible. Anyone who's taken a machine scored test in school understands the mechanics involved in casting a vote. And, to top it off, when you insert your ballot into the box, it is electronically scanned. If you did happen to vote for two candidates for the same office, it is immediately kicked back to you as an invalid ballot. There is no chance for subsequent interpretation of “voter intent.” You cast a valid ballot with a vote for that office, or you didn't. Period.

So, this charade of a recount is focused on human error by the precinct judges, you know, when they sent in the tallies from their precinct, they transposed a number of two. Always to be resolved in the DFL’s favor, of course. And, do not be surprised when magic boxes of ballots that were mistakenly not counted start appearing.

In any case, I'm sure I'll be in the minority here, but please, don't spend your vacation dollars in Minnesota. The only way this sort of crap is ever going to change is if we stop enabling the DFL to run roughshod over us, and the only way to stop that is to stop enabling the maroons in St. Paul by denying them their tribute, er, taxes. For crying out loud, we just voted ourselves a constitutionally earmarked sales tax increase to fund the environment and the arts.

I keep telling myself that someone has to stay here to keep fighting the good fight, but Sioux Falls looks better and better with each passing day.