The Curmudgeon

06/10/08

If I Had Ten Million Dollars

Filed under: News and Politics, Local, National — @ 05:58:53 am

I'd run an independent- a progressive independent- in the US Senate race. Hell, 7 million might get the job done. At the end of that day, the people of Minnesota may end up with a Senator who would advocate for their interests and would have been able to further send a loud message of rejection to the run-of-the-mill political stasis.

Take just a second to ponder that one. No more Norman the Windsock Coleman. No more Al "just jokin'" Franken. We wouldn't have to endure the Republicans' mud-slinging smears and otherwise duplicitous campaigns, no fanciful 'refocused' campaign retorts from the DFL-endorsed Franken.

The only thing that's a safe sure bet is that between November and now, we will be getting a steady stream of Bullshit Republican smear items about Franken, and Franken will be trying to use Coleman's own momentum against him. It will be loud, it'll be incessant, and it will be expensive.

And the results? Very Pyrrhic. Invariably so. Neither candidate will really be able to pass the smell test at the end of the day, but that won't stop 'em from trying.

That is precisely why an independent could enter the picture, and really without doing too much, walk away as an US Senator. With a bar set so low by a battle demonstrating the evil of two lessers, it becomes fairly easy to stand head and shoulders above that fray.

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