Posted on 07/03/2009 9:14:36 PM PDT by newbie2008
The Wall Street Journal’s editors weigh in on Al Franken’s Senate win: The ‘Absentee’ Senator.
The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year’s disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman’s gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don’t need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.
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After the awards ceremony.
Franken (D-ACORN)
That idiot isn’t intelligent enough to steal a glance, much less an election. Rather, ACORN stole that election.
A couple months too late, but I’ll take it. The WSJ may condemn the stolen election now, but it’s us Minnesotans that have to live with him for six years.
What good does that do? It is obvious to anyone who paid even the tiniest bit of attention that the counting was not done in an equitable manner in all counties.
BINGO ! It’s over . Get used to it comrades .
If he’s now your Senator, bombard him with emails, letters, and phone calls demanding that your point of view be heard and represented. Do this incessantly and demand responses.
This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight.
Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.
I have seen this happen in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nigeria. Each time I saw this I felt contempt for a country that would allow this corruption. I have now seen this happen in my country. I do not feel contempt but great sadness and anger. My country is being stolen by political thieves.
Until Republicans get serious about local elections this is going to keep happening. The GOP focus on statewide offices and national offices, but too often doesn’t aggressively field and support candidates for the local, city and county offices and boards that are not only the birthplace of so many future national Democratic politicians, but as is demonstrated here, have enormous influence on policies that have tremendous effects.
Yep and it was done through the courts. Sheesh! The corruption of the courts keep going. Why should the everyday person believe in the judicial system anymore? It doesn’t work.
What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right.
Except that these were the same courts that rejected Coleman's attempts to stop the counting, claiming that his arguments were better suited to the contest phase.
It now appears that the game is to kick the can to the contest phase, and then in the contest phase say that it's too late because votes were counted.
-PJ
I have seen this happen in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nigeria. Each time I saw this I felt contempt for a country that would allow this corruption. I have now seen this happen in my country. I do not feel contempt but great sadness and anger. My country is being stolen by political thieves.
The Republicans laid the groundwork for stolen elections when they allowed Mary Landrieu and Loretta Sanchez to steal elections against Woody Jenkins and Bob Dornan in 1996 or ‘98, I believe. The cowards lacked the nerve to scream bloody murder b/c the beneficiaries to the purloined largesse were WOMEN. And Coleman’s “gracious” concession to Franken is enough to make one vomit. Does our country have a chance against Marxism with this bunch of GOP cowards in Washington leading the efforts to protect the Constitution? Happy birthday to our former American republic! Bob
Remember colorful, conservative Bob Dornan from CA? Loretta Sanchez took his seat with fradulent votes about 12 or 13 years ago. Dornan insisted on hearings. I watched them, and it was obvious she cheated; the panel, headed by who else--a Repub--found that they could not call the evidence enough to overturn--benefit of the doubt, etc.
Since then, Dems/ACORN/Dem lawyers have been perfecting the steal. They are now slick and entrenched--still, you hear barely a whimper from Repubs. They sat on their useless arses and whimpered, except for FL and MN. By MN, they were unable to overcome the deluge of cheating.
vaudine
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