Posted on 04/08/2009 3:55:55 PM PDT by steve-b
If he keeps up the fight, he is likely to lose, unnecessarily deprive Minnesota of a second senator, end his political career seen as a sore loser, and hurt his party in a state that is eager for this fight to be over. His team has talked enough about further legal challenges that if he leaves now, he will get some points for grace. (Needless to say, that sentiment would not be universal.) But this is, I think, the last moment where he can exit with some dignity....
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Better to lose with honor than to surrender with dignity.
With all of the phony ballots that appeared out of no where after the election the democrats have stolen this election.
America has seen it’s last free election. With ACORN and all of the voter fraud by the fascists we are forever socialists unless we grow some leaders.
Where is George Washington when you need him?
Who is Ramesh Ponnuru and why whould I care?
I agree, he’s been good on some issues but lately he’s been a disappointment.
As others have said, I want Coleman to fight to the end on this thing. This smells like corruption, it smells like a stolen election.
I’m angry that the GOP isn’t doing more to fight this. Maybe they want to let the system work, but I think they’re wrong. The system is corrupt, and its only going to work if it is forced to work under threat of exposure. You clean up a corrupted system by turning a light on it and exposing it.
I’d gladly go with no Senate for the next 6 years
BS. THe R’s got slaughtered in 2006 and 2008 by being meek, weak, gracious and “classy.” The D’s ran from Howard Dean’s playbook and played up kooks like Olberman, Sheehan, Franken and the like.
LLS
Yeah, the hell with it...let’s just turn the whole Congress over to the Dems. We wouldn’t want to think that we’re sore losers now, would we? (sarc)
Good God, no wonder we’re in the spot we’re in because of people like this!
Well, I guess he gets a “pass” on being a weasel once in a while... :-)
This is pure idiocy. Even supposing that Coleman is eventually the loser, then the longer he keeps that sick scumbag Franken away from having a vote in the Senate, the better it is for the nation. Coleman needs to eat up as much of the term as humanly possible. He needs to drag it through the courts forever.
If the situation was reversed I’m sure Frankel would just bow out gracefully. LOL!!!! Yeah, sure.
It’s better to have no senator and a knock down drag out fight than to suffer through Franken.
Aside from Steyn, the NRs are a bunch of wimps. Style points, indeed.
That's the sentiment that turns Republicans into losers and Democrats into winners.
Coleman may stick it out and still lose, but I'd rather he be seen as a tenacious person who fought to the end, rather than a person who gave up for "grace points" that won't get you anywhere.
-PJ
Typical rino dumbass.
Coleman is going to win once this reaches the federal courts.
It’s Bush v Gore all over regarding different standards for a statewide count.
Keep the faith, folks.
Ummm no. Theft is wrong and he should stand up for his rights till the bitter end.
Unlike in 2000 the plaintant was ahead after the original fair count.
If anyone should exit with dignity it ought to be this author writing for a supposedly conservative publication.
GACK!
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