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.

[GSWarrior]

“...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.

[Mr. K]

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.

[fella]

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

[b4its2late]

[Zarro]

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.

[SMARTY]

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

[FiddlePig]

2020 dream ticket emerges...

[blueunicorn6]

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

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[NohSpinZone]

Walter Mondale approves this message. He'd finally be able to shed the moniker:

"The worst presidential candidate from Minnesota."

[blueunicorn6]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

Or Franklin/Lieawatha!

[Pilgrim's Progress]

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.

[MHT]

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

[DannyTN]

lol

[OrangeHoof]

Al Franken is a Big Fat Idiot.

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

[OrangeHoof]

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.)

[BlueLancer]

Heck, I always thought that Tom Davis was the funnier of the two anyway ...

[Terry Mross]

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

[The Great RJ]

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