Coleman would be better for the Democrats.  He’s a wimp and a scare like this would make it easier for the Democrats to intimidate him.  He’d be like “Wimpy” Nelson from Nebraska.  As the story goes, pre-election 2004, Josh Bolten talked with Nelson in the WH limo while driving around Omaha.  About 1 or 2 miles from the hotel, they kicked Nelson out of the car and made him walk back.  Nelson got the message.  He was a loyal Republican after that in votes they wanted.
Al Franken, however, has that AIPAC and JINSA money behind him and he’d be just another (D-Israel).

Coleman would be better for the Democrats.  He’s a wimp and a scare like this would make it easier for the Democrats to intimidate him.  He’d be like “Wimpy” Nelson from Nebraska.  As the story goes, pre-election 2004, Josh Bolten talked with Nelson in the WH limo while driving around Omaha.  About 1 or 2 miles from the hotel, they kicked Nelson out of the car and made him walk back.  Nelson got the message.  He was a loyal Republican after that in votes they wanted.
Al Franken, however, has that AIPAC and JINSA money behind him and he’d be just another (D-Israel)

I think the Democrats could give Norm, the St. Paul Playboy, the scare of his life and have him intimidated similar to the situation Senator “Wimpy” Nelson from Nebraska found himself in with the Bush Admninistration in 2004. They scared him into voting exactly the way they wanted him to vote after throwing in a few personal insults, gratis.  In 2004 pre-election, the WH staff took him somewhere in Omaha in the WH limo and on the return trip Josh Bolten kicked him out of car about 1 or 2 miles from the hotel. Made him walk back.  Nelson got the message.  Now, the Dems could return the favor and get a guaranteed vote for whatever they want without getting another Senator (D-Israel).

Frqanken may be very passionate in his beliefs..I just dont agres with them. I do not think he is very “left of center” at all.

He is better than Coleman and he adds a Dem vote.

I LIKE the idea of a professional comedian in the Senate.  There are so many amateurs there already.  Besides, he’ll pick up fabulous stuff there!

“Keep it up, Guys. I need the material!”—Mark Russell

Bradblog reports that Big Al never wanted to talk about voting irregularities on his Air America talk show.  I wonder if this revoltin’ development will pique his interest.
As a Senator with a possible vote on the middle east, I remember a converstion he had with Norm Ornstein of AEI during the Israeli invasion and bombing og Lebanon.  They were lamenting Hezboulah’s use of the anti-tank weapons in a tone that sounded like whining as in, “It’s not fair.”  Here we had Israel dropping cluster bombs on Lebanon and getting its lunch handed to them on the IDF invasion front, and these two whiners had the gall to cry about it. They were really out to destoy Beirut, the jewel of the Mediterranean, and destroy the prospering Lebanon, another democracy in the middle east.
Juan Cole said it best in his reaction to the Neocons sabotaging his appointment to a postion at Yale when he said, “The Jews have an absolute genius in getting people angry at them.”

I am not totally crazy about Franken—he’s ok. I would like to see another Dem in there, just in case the Dems decide to actually do soemthing this time.

I would suspect Diebold to throw a few votes to Coleman given Republican popularity.