With Al Franken poised to declare victory over Norm Coleman when the State Canvassing Board makes official his lead, unofficially at 225 votes, this afternoon, BoingBoing dug up an excellent video of Franken winning against another right-of-center figure: At the 2004 Connecticut Forum rightwing talker Ann Coulter said that, if she could come back as any person from history, she’d come back as Franklin Delano Roosevelt so she could “not introduce the New Deal.” Franken’s reply:

I would be Hitler… Well, you know, you get to call of the New Deal. I’d like to call off the Holocaust, you know, World War II, the Anschluss… But I’d keep the Volkswagen.