No Joke: Al Franken for President? (BIG joke!)

National Journal ^ | 02/05/17 | Josh Kraushaar

[AngelesCrestHighway]

l Franken isn’t a punch line in the Sen­ate any­more. He’s emerged as one of the Demo­crats’ most ag­gress­ive and ef­fect­ive ques­tion­ers of Pres­id­ent Trump’s Cab­in­et nom­in­ees. He’s gen­er­ated nu­mer­ous made-for-TV clips as one of the few Demo­crats will­ing to go full-bore against his party’s top tar­gets—Jeff Ses­sions, Tom Price, and Betsy De­Vos. He’s fi­nally show­ing some per­son­al­ity in the Sen­ate, punc­tu­ated by his laugh-out-loud ex­change with En­ergy Sec­ret­ary-des­ig­nate Rick Perry. And he’ll be one of nine Demo­crats on the Ju­di­ciary Com­mit­tee ques­tion­ing Trump’s Su­preme Court nom­in­ee, Neil Gor­such. This is Al Franken’s mo­ment in the spot­light, and if he chooses, he could par­lay his good for­tune in­to a bid for the pres­id­ency in 2020.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Democrats reaching for the basement in the outhouse with this damned lunatic...? Not a hope in hell of this Asshat EVER reaching the White House!

[UCANSEE2]

Not a hope in hell of this Asshat EVER reaching the White House!

I think we would do well to remember that the MSM, The DEMS, the LIBS, the LBQT's, the Commies, the Anarchists all said the same thing about Trump.

[\/\/ayne]

I guess he didn’t hear we’re stopping election fraud.

[laweeks]

Can't wait for Senator Al "Need-some-ballots-in-my-car's-trunk-in-order-to-win-because-the Stupid-Party-will-not-contest-it" Franken to run for anything outside of his home state.

[MountainWalker]

Stuart Smalley would lose about 35 states.

[MUDDOG]

To be sure, Franken, 65, may not be the Demo­crats’ strongest can­did­ate in the gen­er­al elec­tion.

With Phil Hartman and Chris Farley gone, he's all they got left.

[farming pharmer]

It’ll take more than vote fraud to get to the Whitehouse, Al. Ask Hillary.

[Mr. Douglas]

Meh. All I want to know is, does he still like himself?

[luvbach1]

After a disastrous first term, the messiah was still re-elected. Risky to overestimate the judgment of the electorate. Yes, it did elect trump.

[gundog]

I don’t know what freeper suggested it, but Franken/Stein 2020 is as good as gold.

[txrefugee]

Oh please, please, please let the Dems pick this clown as a leader. They had to count the votes twice to manufacture a win for him when he ran for Senate from MN in 2008. But true to form, MN voters returned him handily in 2014, proving that an idiot represents MN very well.

[Iron Munro]

Not a hope in hell of this Asshat EVER reaching the White House!

We said the same about Franken when he first ran for the senate.

Now we know.....

There is no limit to what you can do if you are determined and persevere.
(and have the democrat vote fraud machine on your side.

[Red Badger]

I’ve never thought of Al Franken as being funny............until now.................

[wbill]

Stuart Smalley for Prez!

Guaranteed (R) win in 2020.....

[alloysteel]

Stuart Smalley - “I’m good enough. I’m smart enough. And doggone it, people like me.”

The character became the actor. Stuart Smalley, in Al Franken’s mind, is a very real alter ego.

And equally as delusional.

[CJ Wolf]

[RummyChick]

I think we should all encourage Franken to run in 2020

[Leep]

He would have the nut fringe vote locked up.

[MUDDOG]

Beautiful!

I’ll have to vote in the 2020 Dem primary.

[Army Air Corps]

He’s crooked enough, he’s slimy enough, and, gosh darn it, Progressives like him.