May 4, 2009
Making your way in the world today takes everything you got, Norm.

Posted at 6:08 pm, in: Democrat Party, Republican Party
Tags: Al Franken, Norm Coleman

If it’s Coleman or bust for the GOP, I guess it’s bust:

PennsylvaniaSen. Arlen Specter’s shocking decision last week to become a Democrat has upped the ante in the never-ending Minnesota Senate race, providing a strong incentive for Republicans to hold out until every last appeal is exhausted.

With former Sen. Norm Coleman now standing between Democrats and their 60-seat supermajority, the GOP is prepared to back the Republican’s appeal to the federal level if even a shred of doubt emerges in the case currently before the Minnesota Supreme Court.

“This makes it pretty darn important,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, of the race following Specter’s switch. “I expect they will pursue the appeals until they are exhausted, whenever that may be. … I would assume if they were unsuccessful in the Minnesota Supreme Court, there may very well be an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.”

Let’s all be honest. The Democrats and Franken stole this election fair and square. Why you ask? How could I say such a thing? Because Republicans stood back and watched them do it. Republicans allowed the election to be stolen right out from underneath them. Democrats wouldn’t let Republicans “steal” an election they had actually won (think 2000), yet Republicans have sat back and watched this travesty unfold without as much as a wimper.

I don’t know what it is with Republicans, sometimes. I thought the Democrats were supposed to be the party of wimps. Yet, it seems, Republicans sit back and let the Democrats beat them down every chance they get, which is a lot of chances since the Republicans keep handing them over. Republicans are always playing defense. It’s kind of sad.

Major Republican figures should have been out in front of this issue from the beginning. Norm Coleman won this election. I don’t care what kind of creative “vote counting” they implement in order to prove otherwise. Yet, I have barely heard anything about it from Republicans. I’m not saying they have to start whining like the Dems did in 2000 over an election that was never theirs. They should have stood up for what was right, and what would have been right was Norm Coleman being seated.

Instead, they waited until the notoriously liberal Sen. Arlen Specter jumped ship to realize just how severe their situation is. Let me reiterate, good riddance to Arlen Specter. He would have voted with the Dems when he wanted to (read: most of the time), just like he’ll continue to vote with the Reps when he wants to (read: when politically expedient). But it was too late, you had thrown Coleman to the wolves until his one seat took on a whole new level of importance.

I expect more from Republicans. I expect them to stand up and be strong. Don’t play the media’s game. Change the game and play your own. There’s no loyalty, anymore. You’re not worth the paper you’re printed on. You had the power and you squandered it. You talk a big game against Obama’s spending, and you let the Democrats beat you back with one simple refrain: You started it! And, they’re right. This is just one of the many reasons you have no credibility with the public when you talk about out of control spending, now. You were OK with the spending when it was on your projects and under your president.

Now, poor Norm. The Republican party should have stood up for this guy. They should have fought to save this election. They should have publicized the shenanigans that catapulted Franken from a deficit to a lead in votes. Instead, they’ll pay the price with a filibuster proof majority for the Dems in the Senate, having to listen to Al Franken on the Senate floor, and by opening up the door for Dems to steal more elections in the future. They have established a game plan that works. You think this will be the last time they use it?

Republicans need to buck up. Our forefathers risked life and limb. Our “leaders” today won’t even risk being disliked by the MSM. It makes me sick. No wonder I took three years off from this stupid game. Like the majority of Americans, I am a woman without a party.