The game now has to be to waste as much of Franken’s time and money as possible before he ultimately is seated. The fix was in on election day.
Coleman must be a really lousy Senator in addition to human being for this to have ever happened.
I am a resident of Minnesota and was a financial contributor to Coleman’s 2002 and 2008 races.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again.
Norm Coleman was virtually invisible during his six years in the Senate. He loved playing the “Let’s rub elbows and cut deal with each other behind closed doors” routine that exists in the Senate.
He accomplished virtually nothing of substance in his first (and likely only) term. On TV, he seemed to ooze indecision and the inability to give a straight answer to any question. Even on a conservative local radio station, he answered questions in a manner that was similiar pure vanilla pablum.
His re-election campaign was one of those “Hey, vote for me. I really can’t tell you what I’ve done but I’m definitely not Al Franken” themes.
Even given the voter fraud that many believe took place, Coleman should have beaten Franken by at least 5-10 points. Bu he didn’t. The campaign he ran was sub-par and he ought to be incredibly ashamed of himself. I hope he does not run for office ever again.
I believe there was a 3rd party candidate in the race who took 13% or so of the vote...in every state where this happens, we lose,.....and those DFL’ers in Minnesota are NUTTY.