[MplsSteve]

Folks, being a Minnesotan, I'm not sorry that Coleman won't be running for Governor.

It's not because he's a RINO. He's not. He voted with the GOP more often than he didn't.

But my biggest concern is that Coleman lost to Al Franken. There's absolutely no reason in hell Coleman should have lost to Al Franken.

None whatsoever.

He was nearly invisible in his six years in the Senate. His campaign for re-election was extremely insipid and worse yet, his campaign's efforts during the recount were poorly conducted.

In short, I couldn't support someone who has lost elections to two of the biggest ass-clowns in Minnesota politics, Jesse Ventura and Al Franken.

Now Norm, please go away for good.

Comments or opinions - anyone?

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[APFel]

I relished Ventura’s victory. I got to watch Don Shelby almost crap his pants on live television. That alone was worth the price of admission.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, the election was, simply put, stolen. Coleman really would’ve preferred the Governorship, anyway. Hopefully we’ll still retain it, despite the rank incompetence of Pawlenty, who has drastically shrunk the state party on his watch.

[dfwgator]

But my biggest concern is that Coleman lost to Al Franken

And he also lost to Jesse Ventura. That hardly looks good on a resume.

[jtal]

I’m with ya. Norm rolled over and died when it came to fighting for his senate seat and now we’re looking at obamacare as a consequence.

Go pound sand norm, you loser.

[WorkingClassFilth]

[A]nger on the right will get us nowhere

While Norm may have voted 'R' for most of his record, that isn't an enviable record. He opposed AWAR drilling and probably would've signed onto the McCain insertion of Global Warming crap in the 'R' Platform given a second chance as Senator. Norm was reliable with anti-abortion issues and he did yoeman work in exposing UN corruption (little good that it did), but beyond that, he's part of the 'R' problem. His signiture chatch phrase "going forward" was in every speech he ever gave that I heard and, now, it's in his swan song. Well, if going forward for Norm means retirement, I'm all for it.

What we really need is more anger on the right - even if Norm can't fathom why.

[MNJohnnie]

I suspect Norm will wait and run against Klobucher in the next Senate election

[DManA]

Good summary. He energizes the democrats since they consider him (with good reason) to be a turn coat. He began his career as a democrat.

[NormsRevenge]

If you can’t even beat an insane person, I mean really..

I agree, just go away, Norm.

Go visit ANWR why don’tcha?

You’d likely still be sitting in your comfy Senate seat if you had voted Yes to drill there,, BUT NooOOOoooo...

Are the fish biting? :-)

[Theodore R.]

You are right. It may be that Coleman thinks MN voters are more liberal than they are, and he always tried to “reach out” and got his arm chopped off. Coleman couldn’t have lost much more than he did by fighting harder.

[Colonel_Flagg]

But my biggest concern is that Coleman lost to Al Franken. There's absolutely no reason in hell Coleman should have lost to Al Franken.

My comment is this: Coleman didn't lose to Al Franken and every Minnesotan knows it.