Posted on 04/08/2009 3:55:55 PM PDT by steve-b
If he keeps up the fight, he is likely to lose, unnecessarily deprive Minnesota of a second senator, end his political career seen as a sore loser, and hurt his party in a state that is eager for this fight to be over. His team has talked enough about further legal challenges that if he leaves now, he will get some points for grace. (Needless to say, that sentiment would not be universal.) But this is, I think, the last moment where he can exit with some dignity....
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The longer Al Franken is out of the Senate the better. I hope Coleman fights to the bitter end.
Screw this dude — FIGHT to your last dying breath Coleman!
This guy — Ramesh Ponnuru — where’s he writing from...? Pakistan or India?
Coleman should fight to the death to retrieve his seat from the slimey grasp of the Democrats.
I say drag it out as long as possible. Deny those idiots their idiot senator for as long as possible. The Rats would do it, so why not coleman?
You know the old what’s good for the goose thing.
I want him to continue fighting just because I know it drives Franken even further over the line than he already is.
Why is this “poser” allowed into what is supposed to be a “Conservative” publication?
Liberals know no bounds and have no shame. This lets them demand any and everything until they get what they want.
Conservatives know bounds and decency and, like the nice guy, finish last if they don’t kick ass when they should.
Kick ass, Coleman, and ignore this idiot!
I think whoever wrote this is full of Democrap. If it has to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, all valid ballots must be counted fairly. So far, only the Democrats have had their way in the recounting efforts. Why should the GOP retreat when the Democrats never did in Florida in 2000? They started this.
No doubt the posse that went after the James-Younger gang after the Northfield bank job should have given up the pursuit after the first few days. Theft is theft. This is what’s wrong with the soft Right. they won’t fight. For anything...
I’ll gladly go with NO senators for the next 6 years!
dittos ...
Another RINO over at National Review. I stopped going there.
Arkansas will donate one. Take your pick or you can have them both!
Pomonuro bread is panty waste...
Ahhh... born Kansas and of Asian Indian descent...
Something is still wrong there.. :-)
I think Ramesh is wrong on this point, however, he has written good things at NR and the book “The Party of Death”...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Party_of_Death
Three words.... Ramesh bite me.
Better to lose with honor than to surrender with dignity.
With all of the phony ballots that appeared out of no where after the election the democrats have stolen this election.
America has seen it’s last free election. With ACORN and all of the voter fraud by the fascists we are forever socialists unless we grow some leaders.
Where is George Washington when you need him?
Who is Ramesh Ponnuru and why whould I care?
I agree, he’s been good on some issues but lately he’s been a disappointment.
As others have said, I want Coleman to fight to the end on this thing. This smells like corruption, it smells like a stolen election.
I’m angry that the GOP isn’t doing more to fight this. Maybe they want to let the system work, but I think they’re wrong. The system is corrupt, and its only going to work if it is forced to work under threat of exposure. You clean up a corrupted system by turning a light on it and exposing it.
I’d gladly go with no Senate for the next 6 years
BS. THe R’s got slaughtered in 2006 and 2008 by being meek, weak, gracious and “classy.” The D’s ran from Howard Dean’s playbook and played up kooks like Olberman, Sheehan, Franken and the like.
LLS
Yeah, the hell with it...let’s just turn the whole Congress over to the Dems. We wouldn’t want to think that we’re sore losers now, would we? (sarc)
Good God, no wonder we’re in the spot we’re in because of people like this!
Well, I guess he gets a “pass” on being a weasel once in a while... :-)
This is pure idiocy. Even supposing that Coleman is eventually the loser, then the longer he keeps that sick scumbag Franken away from having a vote in the Senate, the better it is for the nation. Coleman needs to eat up as much of the term as humanly possible. He needs to drag it through the courts forever.
If the situation was reversed I’m sure Frankel would just bow out gracefully. LOL!!!! Yeah, sure.
It’s better to have no senator and a knock down drag out fight than to suffer through Franken.
Aside from Steyn, the NRs are a bunch of wimps. Style points, indeed.
That's the sentiment that turns Republicans into losers and Democrats into winners.
Coleman may stick it out and still lose, but I'd rather he be seen as a tenacious person who fought to the end, rather than a person who gave up for "grace points" that won't get you anywhere.
-PJ
Typical rino dumbass.
Coleman is going to win once this reaches the federal courts.
It’s Bush v Gore all over regarding different standards for a statewide count.
Keep the faith, folks.
Ummm no. Theft is wrong and he should stand up for his rights till the bitter end.
Unlike in 2000 the plaintant was ahead after the original fair count.
If anyone should exit with dignity it ought to be this author writing for a supposedly conservative publication.
GACK!
Worse. He’s one of the enlightened from National Review. A worthless publication these days.
Screw dignity. I’m not exactly a fan of Coleman and think the Republicans *almost* deserve to lose for not foreseeing this in advanace and stopping the theft of the seat, but on principle it’s beyond stupidity to advocate he drop out for something as flimsy as personal “dignity”. There is no dignity in walking away from a race he won that they stole. And it’s not like he’ll probably win again given the demographics of that state, so he might as well hold to the bitter end. Besides, it keeps Franken out of the Senate and that isn’t a bad thing.
The fact is that many types of ballots for Coleman rejected by Republican counties were 100% approved for Franken in Democrat counties. I don’t think this should be over.
What is needed is a new election.
I agree. He has not received a just count yet. The state judges refuse to force the counties to all use the same standard which is a clear violation of the equal protection clause.
I think Ramesh needs to hush and keep his nose out of this.
Fight to the end
There is no honor when Demonrat machinations in manufacturing votes is allowed to continue and no one questions it. It is right for Coleman to NEVER concede and he needs to be honored for continuing to fight this injustice with those leftist thugs who think Republicans will allow this to continue.
There is nothing dignified in losing to FrankenFool.
Exactly what I was going to say.
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