Posted by
overhaul on Monday, February 09, 2009 4:39:08 PM
This is a follow-up to my previous column "STUPIDITY"
While I have never been to Minnesota I always had the notion that Minnesotans were serious people of Scandanavian heritage. Unfortunately, I have now been disabused of that notion.
The state of Minnesota is now and has been since the 2008 election in a contentious battle over who won the last senate race. The incumbent Senator Norm Coleman suffered from the disadvantage of running when the Republican Party was severely out of favor.
The Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party nominated left wing comedian Al Franken. For God's sake AL FRANKEN!!!
Has some terrorist group unleashed a weapon of mass destruction rendering half of the population of Minnesota totally insane? AL FRANKEN?? This must be a bad dream. But no, as the recount and court decisions go on it looks like AL FRANKEN might actually become the junior senator from Minnesota. AL FRANKEN in the Senate of the United States!?!? God forbid!
The fact that Franken is even in a recount places an indelible blot on the reputation of all Minnesotans. Just think what a blot on the reputation of the Senate it would be if this clown, and I mean clown in the most pejorative sense, actually won the recount and entered the Senate.
Even in company with Harry Reid who said the Surge was a failure before it had even begun and Dick Durbin who compared our troops to Nazis the presence of AL FRANKEN in the Senate would plunge their reputation to a new low.