Empty victory for a hollow man How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat.

Salon.com ^ | Nov. 7, 2002 | By Garrison Keillor

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Yeah, well, it's a FULL DEFEAT for the OVER-STUFFED Garrison Keiler.

[Blue Screen of Death]

When did we become such an unforgiving country?

[Charles Henrickson]

I always wonder how a small town midwestern Lutheran boy could grow up to be a communist!

I am fairly certain that Keillor himself has never been a Lutheran. I think he was raised in some small fundamentalist-type church. But he was raised in Minnesota, and knows the culture there, which is heavily Lutheran, of course.

I'm a Lutheran--a Lutheran minister, in fact--and I've lived in Minnesota. I enjoy Garrison's show, but I don't like his politics.

[cibco]

What a bum. I try to throw out that Ronald Reagon was a Democrat that switched too. He also went on to become successful after that.

I just moved back here for family reasons. This clown and the other "progressives"(marxists)are what is wrong with this state.

[DWSUWF]

"...Empty victory for a hollow man How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat..."

Say what you want about Norm being 'hollow'...

At least he's not turned inside out and singed around the edges.

[correctthought]

I guess I didn't have a heart

[Cicero]

I used to enjoy listening to Prairie Home Companion in the early years. Now this kind of rant is all too common on the program. It's easy to see why NPR is scrambling for funds and why the government has increasingly little reason to support them.

[shrinkermd]

"St. Paul is a small town and anybody who hangs around the St. Paul Grill knows about Norm's habits. Everyone knows that his family situation is, shall we say, very interesting, but nobody bothered to ask about it, least of all the religious people in the Republican Party. They made their peace with hypocrisy long ago. So this false knight made his way as an all-purpose feel-good candidate, standing for vaguely Republican values, supporting the president."

Garrison is right about how small St. Paul is. If he is reading this thread I hope he is willing for us to discuss his "very interesting personal life." The problem with ad hominemattacks and especially in respect to morals, is that you must be authentically moral yourself to deliver them. I think Garrison better reflect before he pursues this again. He does not deserve a second chance.

[Tall_Texan]

Lake Woe-is-me.

[valleygal]

"Garisson Keilor is a vile piece of excrement. If I ever run into him I will punch his dumb nose down his dumb commie throat."

Oh, montag, don't hold back...tell us what you really think. :)(smile)

[VetoBill]

If Senator-Elect Coleman is this bad a person, I would sure hate to meet the opponent.

Continuing with this argument would be like going on a date with Janet Reno, nothing to brag about everything to hide.

[F-117A]

Thanks!!!!

I was hoping that someone would post that picture of the mourners!

I wonder if anyone has a picture of Garrison "mourning"?

[vaudine]

Garrison Keillor...Noam Chomsky...T.Kennedy...Hillary...Mondale...M.Dowd...Krugman..blah-blah-blah.

In university, our son wore long hair, mustache, beard, sandals
played guitar and said he should not aspire to be better than his fellow man--thought he might just drive a taxi and play guitar.

Came his graduation, he asked for a three piece suit for graduation, cut his hair and found a well-paid job. Went on to law school later and is a good family man. It's called growing up, Garrison

Vaudine

[jlogajan]

Garrison Keillor hasn't lived in Minnesota for many years. When he left he managed to insult just about everyone in the state. A typical "liberal", he doesn't think much of most people and holds general contempt for the "masses."

[stands2reason]

No, I guess all of us former college lefties weren't supposed to grow up.

[cubreporter]

Yes, lips must really be puckered. Hey Garrison, yada, yada, yada. Coleman, Coleman, Coleman!

[cubreporter]

Does Bill Clinton always joke around at funerals? Remember the Ron Brown funeral? This is something Mondale should have stayed away from! But...I'm glad he didn't and I'm glad Hillary and Bill were all shown laughing so mightly at the memorial. Showed a lack of respect and LOT of people saw who they REALLY are! Came back to bite them.

[TexanToTheCore]

You are right in spades. His APHC is listened to by a lot of family values types, yet he consistently mocks them, especially in his googy column in (holds nose) Salon.

[tpaine]

Dream on kiddo. Nixon was the original RINO. He never saw a government expanding program he didn't like. -- Or a Constitutional principle he couldn't ignore.

Imho, history a hundred years from now will judge him as a worse president than clinton. -- Regardless of which faction gets to write it.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

If we tossed every former Democrat out of the party and every former dope smoking hippie out of the Texas Christian Coalition, there wouldn't be much left!

This guy needs his rear kicked.