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No Joke: Al Franken for President? (BIG joke!)
National Journal ^ | 02/05/17 | Josh Kraushaar

Posted on 02/07/2017 8:36:16 AM PST by 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.


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To: SamAdams76

“...can’t even remember the last time or if we ever had 8 years of one president and then 8 years of the former president’s VP serving as president.”

It has never happened. America is a centrist nation. Voters don’t like lurches to the left or to the right.


41 posted on 02/07/2017 9:09:01 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: The_Media_never_lie

She is the one who was challenging the election results until the democrats made her stop because she was exposing more fraudulent votes for HilLIARy than for Trump.


42 posted on 02/07/2017 9:11:21 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: CJ Wolf

I was wondering how long it would take for “that” picture to show up. 16


43 posted on 02/07/2017 9:12:42 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
 photo AlFrankenDuhO.jpg
44 posted on 02/07/2017 9:13:06 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

We need to recall the EXTREMELY low bar they set with the nomination of Hillary this last round. Lying-criminal-under-FBI-investigation flew...why not Al Franken? And the Detestable Media would go all-in to make him look reasonable and maybe even (choke) smart.


45 posted on 02/07/2017 9:13:42 AM PST by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Right- They’re NOT scraping the bottom of the barrel. They lifted the barrel and they’re digging underneath!!


46 posted on 02/07/2017 9:13:42 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: MUDDOG
2020 dream ticket emerges...
47 posted on 02/07/2017 9:13:47 AM PST by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Al Franken is to comedy what Jeffrey Dahmer was to fine dining.


48 posted on 02/07/2017 9:19:25 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

49 posted on 02/07/2017 9:20:20 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Walter Mondale approves this message. He'd finally be able to shed the moniker:

"The worst presidential candidate from Minnesota."

50 posted on 02/07/2017 9:23:57 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I think that with proper, 24-hour-a-day supervision, and some red paint, that Al Franken could possibly hope to be a somewhat adequate barber pole.


51 posted on 02/07/2017 9:27:10 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: gundog

Or Franklin/Lieawatha!


52 posted on 02/07/2017 9:27:50 AM PST by Grampa Dave (So called news that never happened, did not nor will happen. It doesn't even qualify as fake news!)
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To: UCANSEE2

We have elected two of our great presidents from the entertainment industry . . . it is only right that the Dems place their future hope on a comedian best known for wearing Pampers and holding a big stuffed bear.


53 posted on 02/07/2017 9:29:03 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: UCANSEE2

As a younger Bernie, he has a snowball’s chance in Minnesota.


54 posted on 02/07/2017 9:30:00 AM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: Army Air Corps

lol


55 posted on 02/07/2017 9:38:35 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Al Franken is a Big Fat Idiot.

Democrat dream ticket - Al Franken/Jill Stein. Franken/Stein 2020!


56 posted on 02/07/2017 9:45:05 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: MUDDOG
With Phil Hartman and Chris Farley gone, he's all they got left.

Not so fast. Eddie Murphy was a terrific congressman*
(* -using liberal logic that acting as one in a Hollywood film or on television qualifies you in real life.)

57 posted on 02/07/2017 9:49:14 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Heck, I always thought that Tom Davis was the funnier of the two anyway ...


58 posted on 02/07/2017 9:50:27 AM PST by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Where in the Constitution does it say nominees must sit through hours of being slandered?


59 posted on 02/07/2017 9:58:27 AM PST by Terry Mross (I was once ," verysadamerican". Mo more since "WE" won!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Against Franken Trump would win a second term in a landslide. I’m not too sure Franken would even win in Minnesota.


60 posted on 02/07/2017 10:00:26 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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