>>If they can double count FRanken ballots, Heck, let’s open anything that even looks like a valid ballot..<<
What a concept.... to actually count all the absentee ballots in an election that could be decided by a few votes.
1) Coleman is a Republican. He is the only kind of Republican who can win in somewhat liberal Minnesota, and as a Republican he casts the most important vote of any Senate session for a Republican to be leader (and who thus defines what bills are even voted on). No other vote he casts is as important as that one so no other position he takes can trump it.
2) We are in the minority. The chest beating swaggering yells about “I only support a Conservative (with a capital C)” is a position that advances the opposition’s agenda. It takes numbers to stop their agenda. You can start to worry about your own agenda when and only when you have the numbers to advance it. We don’t. Capital C conservatives would not win in Minnesota. Ronald Reagan did not win Minnesota. A Republican Senate vote from Minnesota is a thing of gold.
3) Support Norm Coleman’s fight.