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DFLer Al Franken won an impressive share Saturday of what may be the last ballots tallied in the U.S. Senate recount, boosting his unofficial lead over Sen. Norm Coleman to 225 votes heading into a Monday meeting where the state Canvassing Board will certify the final result of the race.Americans ought to be ashamed that it has come to this. And why did it come to this? Norm Coleman voted yes on S.B. 1629. His NumbersUSA grade is C. So while I am mortified that Al Franken will be a member of the U.S. Senate, I am at least comforted that Norm Coleman can no longer disgrace the Republican Party by voting for open borders.
At least two things, however, still stand in the way of Franken becoming Minnesota's newest U.S. senator: the possibility of a ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court that more wrongly rejected absentee ballots should be counted, and a legal contest that Coleman attorneys all but promised should Franken prevail.
Hasta la vista, Norm.
UPDATE: A couple of commenters have leapt to Coleman's defense, with one saying:
I think there is never a good reason to vote for a Liberal...especially this clown.Well, friends don't let friends vote Democrat, but that's not the point. The fact that Coleman was unable to command even a plurality in a three-way race demonstrates, to my mind, the folly of open-borders Republicanism.
An open-borders position won't win you any extra "swing" votes, while utterly alienating the conservative base. By contrast, a strong border-security position might win over some blue-collar voters who otherwise would either stay home or vote Democrat. So even apart from ideological or moral considerations, border-security is a political winner for Republicans.
Therefore, every defeat of an open-borders Republican like Norm Coleman (or Mike DeWine or John McCain) demonstrates that there is no advantage for the GOP in the pro-amnesty position. It's not that I want Democrats to win, but if these Republicans don't want Democrats to win, maybe they shouldn't have voted for open borders.
Wow. No concern about election debasement?
ReplyDeleteSo rather than move the bill forward so that the various components of comprehensive immigration reform could be debated and some level of action on the problem might at least be put be for the American people, Coleman voted against the knee jerk reaction of the simplistic who took the whole package and characterized it as amnesty. That's a bad thing?
ReplyDeleteOnly in America.
And, Franken being in the US Senate would be a good...less bad...bearable...what kind of thing?
Nope, any rationale person, even a Republican who doesn't vote in lockstep with the ideologically pure would be better than a clown.
IMHO
I dunno...I think there is never a good reason to vote for a Liberal...especially this clown.
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