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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, Is the Perfect Anti-Trump
The Nation ^ | 06/02/2017 | Joan Walsh

Posted on 11/16/2017 1:25:36 PM PST by horsappl

But rewrite-room excuses didn’t fly in the 24/7 reality of the campaign, and the “joke” almost killed Franken’s campaign. It landed on the eve of the Minnesota convention where he hoped to be chosen as the Democratic nominee to face Coleman. He made the dangerous move of addressing the controversy in a raw convention speech. “It kills me that things I said and wrote sent a message to some of my friends in this room and people in this state that they can’t count on me to be a champion for women, a champion for all Minnesotans, in this campaign and in the Senate,” he told the crowd. I’m sorry for that.” He went on to acknowledge he’d written and told some “offensive” jokes over the years, that he’d made some folks “uncomfortable,” and ended: “But I’m in this race because there are some people in Washington who could afford to feel a little less comfortable.” And he promised the first person he’d make uncomfortable was Norm Coleman.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 115th; alfranken; groping; leeanntweeden; melaniemorgan; minnesota; tds; women
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To: tennmountainman

Franken is a giant sexual pedator and stalker.

But then, so was Norm Coleman.


21 posted on 11/16/2017 1:50:17 PM PST by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: horsappl

Please post a link to McConnell’s righteous call to have Frankel expelled.


22 posted on 11/16/2017 1:51:29 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Architect of Avalon
Turtle666
23 posted on 11/16/2017 1:53:46 PM PST by timestax
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To: scottinoc

Hey—this article took several months to crash and burn.

The MSM’s “Russia, Russia, Russia” stories can’t pass the laugh out loud test for twenty four hours.


24 posted on 11/16/2017 1:54:01 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: horsappl

Al Franken, Gnat of the Senate


25 posted on 11/16/2017 1:54:20 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: horsappl

I’ve heard that Franken sees himself as a tough guy also. He has physically threatened people at DC functions because, like most Leftists, he believes that he would be justified in violently assaulting Conservatives.


26 posted on 11/16/2017 1:57:25 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: horsappl

OMG!! The grpoerjokerAL is calling the woman a LAIR!!! Oh boy!!


27 posted on 11/16/2017 1:58:11 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: horsappl
UhOh! Valerie Jarrett (Obama's brain) just delivered the sentence for Franken. He's toast.


28 posted on 11/16/2017 2:09:37 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek
Whoa!!!! That's gonna HURT!!!!
29 posted on 11/16/2017 2:18:01 PM PST by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: horsappl

Isn’t this the commie little creep that dressed up in diapers and bunny ears?
Isn’t he the creep that sole the senate seat he has by hidden ballots or some crap?
The creep is an insane lib....needs to be locked up in an insane asylum.


30 posted on 11/16/2017 2:21:33 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: RightGeek
>>> Valerie Jarrett (Obama's brain) just delivered the sentence for Franken. He's toast. <<<

Totally transparent and expected. Franken would gladly fall on his sword for a chance to get at Moore or Trump.
ALWAYS remember. Every leftist call for justice is a scheme for more power.
31 posted on 11/16/2017 2:24:43 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: horsappl
Franken will need to up his game to unseat the "LION OF THE SENATE".


32 posted on 11/16/2017 2:26:43 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: horsappl

Time to send Stuart Smalley back to Saturday Night Left.


33 posted on 11/16/2017 2:41:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: horsappl

Wasn’t FrankenStein a favorite candidate of the Rats for the 2020 presidential elections?


34 posted on 11/16/2017 2:44:48 PM PST by aquila48
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To: horsappl

Giant of the Senate? He’s a dweeb and turd.


35 posted on 11/16/2017 2:51:08 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: horsappl

36 posted on 11/16/2017 2:53:07 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's over for the NFL. They have stage 5 Colin brain cancer, and it's terminal.)
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To: Grampa Dave

He’d look better with a 2x4 imbedded in his face.


37 posted on 11/16/2017 2:56:19 PM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: Kudsman

I was thinking along the line of the Aluminum bats our sons used in little league. You can’t break them in spite of —————————!


38 posted on 11/16/2017 3:03:10 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's over for the NFL. They have stage 5 Colin brain cancer, and it's terminal.)
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To: horsappl

Giant smear of smegma maybe....


39 posted on 11/17/2017 2:42:21 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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