[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Note to Mr. Franken: You can be good looking and a jerk. Conversely, you can be a good person, but ugly...but you can't be an ugly jerk and get away with it. There just isn't that much slack to be had in the world.

[Timesink]

Note to Mr. Franken: You can be good looking and a jerk. Conversely, you can be a good person, but ugly...but you can't be an ugly jerk and get away with it. There just isn't that much slack to be had in the world.

I dunno. If there's one thing we know about the Democratic Party mindset in the last quarter century, it's that they'll let you get away with just about anything as long as you swear fealty to The Party. And Al Franken has most assuredly done that. (Many people don't know that that by RAT standards, his politics are downright moderate; he's a card-carring member of the DLC. But he stands by, and fights for, The Big Giant Ass every waking moment, so they all worship him, even the far-left nutbags.)

That's what makes Al so strange, really; he's not a hard left guy, but he spends all his time acting like one. Someone with the politics of Joe Lieberman and the temper of the most radical Howard Dean worshipper ... it just doesn't compute.

[MEG33]

I love it!