The conservative case for why Coleman should drop out

Part of me hopes Coleman does drag it out because it hurts the GOP, and in a happy daydream, Pawlenty refuses to sign the election certificate and supports dragging appeals through the federal courts. It’s a happy daydream because Pawlenty learns the lesson Wendell Anderson did about mucking around with senate seats, and screws up both his reelection chances and whatever hope he has of becoming president.

So maybe this is no-lose for the DFL. Either we get a senator, or the Republicans inflict damage on themselves.

The conservative case for why Coleman should drop out…

"Ramesh Ponnuru [on the web site "The Corner"] makes the case that by continuing to drag the process through the courts Coleman is hurting the state, his own political future and the Minnesota GOP. Ponnuru’s take: If he keeps up the f…

The big loosers in all of this might be union workers throughout the US. If Coleman drags this out, and, Pawlenty goes along with this, long enough for the card check bill to fail, the wrath of union workers will be considerable. If there are any “Reagan” democrats still out there, this would probably convince them that republicans are no friends of labor.

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The Republicans are so hell-bent on self-destruction that they’re oblivious to the potential cost of being seen as the ultimate sore losers. They’ll fight this to the bitter end and hopefully alienate even more voters in the process. I’d put money on it.

[...] calling Coleman to quit. I guess the Star Tribune decided to leave out all the conservative voices asking Coleman to stop wasting time. (And, well, it’s almost mathematically impossible for Coleman [...]

The big downside to Coleman throwing in the towel: probably not one on 20,000 Minnesota voters can adequately (and accurately, ahem) explain by what process we achieved a 500 vote swing in this contest. By just going ahead and sending Stuart to Washington, we legitimize a process that has NOT earned the voter’s confidence, no matter (I’d hope) WHAT party you belong to.

The big upside, if Coleman threw in the towel? Al Franken in Washington. The man’s a travesty, an embarassment. Every day he’s on Capital Hill opening his mouth is another day Minnesota, and the DFL, look like idiots; they’ll be another day closer to turning Minnesota purple, even red.

It’s a lose-lose, really.

The Republicans are so hell-bent on self-destruction that they’re oblivious to the potential cost of being seen as the ultimate sore losers.

Actually, no – I suspect after there’s a legitimate end to this, the GOP will go along and go about the business of trying to rescue the country from the crack-whores-with-stolen-Gold-Cards that won the last election. We don’t be spending 6-8 years whinging about how Franken was “selected, not elected”, like, ahem, you-know-who did for the past eight years.

But by all mean, lead with condescension! It endears y’all to the people!

Coleman is a national disgrace. He and the GOP should be utterly ashamed, and most certainly would be, were it that republicans had the ability to feel a sense of shame.

I personally hope that a class action suit is brought up against him, on behalf of all Minnesotans, for depriving of them the right to full representative government, at a time of national crisis. I’d like to see him and the republican party that’s prodding him into this ignorant delaying be forced to pay dearly for their unAmerican, undemocratic actions.

Here’s a great question: How would the “liberal media” be treating Al Franken, if the shoes were on the other feet? If Franken were the one who was endlessly dragging on the inevitable and denying MN its second senate seat, would there be utter silence in the major media, or do you suppose there’d be a constant deafening outrage?

Given how the “liberal media” treated Al Gore in 2000, when all he wanted was for a state-mandated recount to take place, I think we all know the answer to my rhetorical question, don’t we?