The courts are about as in the bag for the Democrats as Richie is… in fact they account for 4 of the 5 votes on the canvassing board. So I don’t see much hope in these court challenges, either.

As for Franken, I have nothing to say except bull… hmm.. never mind.

For any site admin,

Redstate is serving up FakeAlert. This is a pretty annoying trojan. You might want to scan your server for vulnerabilities. I’ve trapped it 3 times thus far, all from your front page.

Regards…

With the Washington governor recount fiasco a while back, and now this abomination, the terms democrat and Democrat almost have opposite meaning.

Cheating aside, what the heck is with the people of this state? How could any sane, thinking person vote for Al Franken?? This race should NEVER have been this close.

Brains frozen, fingers cannot function, must pay more taxes, must give all to democrats, uggghhhh……

Do I detect a hint of whining in these posts? I especially liked the comment about the courts being “in the bag”, remember the Republican courts ruling on FL/2000?

Of course the other “answer” is that the people of MN are a bunch of fools because they voted for Franken, somehow I thought that voting for a candidate is part of the definition of democracy. Fools or not this is how our country is supposed to work (unless you want to go back to pre-17th amendment and let the state legislatures decide- meaning a guarantee of 46 Democratic Senators and 28 Republicans with the rest from split or non-partisan state houses).

Your 2000 analogy only strengthens the MN Coleman’s case - as you recall, the D’s fought against counting all ballots, they just wanted recounts in the counties that were Democratic strongholds. Only after dragging things out to the last minute did they then change their tune, and then it was too close the electoral college vote. 2) The Rep secretary of state applied consistent standards, unlike MN. 3) independent recounters from the media after the fact all agree that Bush had a narrow victory based on the ballots cast.

Read the Journal article. Personally I believe the seat should be declared vacant and another election held as the results have lost legitimacy due to too much imprecision: regardless of how the courts rule, half the state will believe they were cheated.

I also know, based on the Washington governor outcome this year after the 2004 fiasco, that 6 years from now, the vast majority of voters will not give a s**t as to whether this election was fair, which heightens the need to get this one right.

If the race is close, count on the Democrats winning. They ALWAYS win when it’s a small margin, even if they’re behind.

There’s too many cracks in the system, and “finding” a few thousand votes is always possible with the Democrat machine. The Republicans just lay down and surrender, hoping there will be a backlash from public opinion. It never happens.

Democrats will keep doing this until Republicans fight fire with fire. Why would they ever stop? It keeps working to their benefit, and the public just assumes both sides are guilty of it. Our side needs to push the envelope with “get out the vote” and “absentee drive” type activities. Eventually, both sides would agree to common sense reforms.

I hope Coleman is happy he voted for that $700 billion Wall Street bailout that’s going to places like the UAW. My guess is he would have won this race by a much larger margin had he voted against it.

Note to Republican politicians: If 70% of the public opposes something, you’re up for reelection in a tough year, and it violates basic conservative principles, don’t go along with it!

I can’t believe how stupid Coleman’s political instincts were. It now looks like it’s going to be Senator Al Franken because of it.

Thank you Minnesota.

because I will after every racist joke, tax avoidence, and mocking of tradtional American values leads to controversy after controversy with him. Everytime this moron shoots his mouth off it will probably be worth thousands of dollars in contributions to Republican candidates. I also wish Reid all the best trying to explain to all the racebaiters how seating Franken and not Burris isnt racist when there is more proof that Franken got his seat by fraud than Burris did, espiecially after Reid told Blago he did not want any black guys in the Senate club.

You folks are forgetting that Minn had a third party candidate. The libertarian-conservative leaning party of the idiot wrestler Jesse Ventura. Ventura’s protege ran for Senate. He gathered a significant percentage of the vote that wouild have gone to Coleman. Don’t believe the liberal media’s blather and polls that the Ventura protege was drawing equally from Colemen and Franken. If you beleive that then you will believe that Perot drew evenly from the GOP and the Dems in 1992 and 1996.

You also forget that the Dems and ACORN came up with their “Secy of State” project to elect as many Dems-liberals as possible to Secy of State in each of these states just so they could steal these elections. We cannot win when the decks are stacked against us.

We must network in every state to create a communication system outside of the liberal media to spread the word to conservatives and the 20% of the popultation that get their info from the liberal TV media. We must network to raise funds for our candiates and so we can advertise and communicate our positions to the misinformed 20%. We must fight in every election. We must run canidates for School Board, City Council, County Board, State Legislator and every statewide office especially Secy of State. We cannot concede any office to the Dem-libs We must fight or become accustomed to living in a European socialized nation.

I know a lot of RedStaters and conservatives are annoyed at the GOP but it is the only vehicle we have to restore liberty and free markets to America. We must work within the GOP to make it truly conservative and to elect conservatives. We willnever be able to do that in the Dem party. They Dem conservatives are phonies. They get elected and then they vote with their liberal leadership.. They get re-elected by handing out gov’t money and not discussing their records.

We must organize and contest every election in every state. We may not win all of the time but at least our voices will be heard.

We need to get rid of this idea that the voting public admires politicians who smile while getting shafted by their opponents. Bush did that throughout his Presidency, and he’s leaving office with the lowest approval ratings since Nixon.

I said this before; once it was obvious that the Canvassing Board were really there to clinch a win for Al Franken, Coleman should have let loose with ads and daily Press Conferences challenging every single egregious (and they so are) decision against him - which was practically every one.

He should have openly called this what it was; an election being blatantly stolen in broad daylight over and over again.

The Democrats may not like it. The MN and National Press may tut-tut over it. He may even have to contend with the MSM’s menagerie of pet “moderate” Republicans brought in to agree with the liberal talk show hosts on Sunday Morning asking him to sit back and just take it.

But, at the end of the day, he would be in a far better position than he is today. Even if he ends up losing, he’d have established a foundation for himself to run against Klobuchar in 2012 or for Governor in 2010.