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November 14, 2008
Franken Tearjerker Revealed As a Lie
If Barack Obama can be elected president, anything is possible: even the corrupt and obnoxious hard-left professional clown Al Franken joining the Senate. He lost the election, so he is pulling an Al Gore, with his supporters manufacturing postelection votes by the hundreds in the most open contempt for democrat processes since their fellow progressive Joseph Stalin said,
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
In an attempt to justify his postelection shenanigans, Franken tells the tale of an old woman whose absentee ballot was rejected because having had a stroke made her signature shaky. For the record, this tearjerker is a lie:
Franken's U.S. Senate campaign originally said an 84-year-old Beltrami County woman's post-stroke handwriting did not match her voter registration signature, so election officials rejected her ballot.
The county's top elections official said she told the Franken campaign that was not the case.
"Beltrami County does not have one ballot that was rejected because signatures didn't match and the Franken campaign was clearly told that," County Auditor-Treasurer Kay Mack said. "I don't know where they are getting that from."
Nonetheless, Franken's campaign continues to "strong arm local officials into counting invalid ballots" — as opposition campaign manager Cullen Sheehan puts it — as his supporters discover mislaid ballots in places like the trunks of their cars. By a mysterious coincidence, none of these includes votes for Franken's rival Norm Coleman.
Overseeing the farce is Minnesota's Democrat Secretary of State Mark Ritchie — a militant moonbat:
One of Mr. Ritchie's financial supporters during his 2006 run for office was a 527 group called the Secretary of State Project, which was co-founded by James Rucker, who came from MoveOn.org. The group says it is devoted to putting Democrats in jobs where they can "protect elections."
Mr. Ritchie is also an ally of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, of fraudulent voter-registration fame. That relationship might explain why prior to the election Mr. Ritchie waved off evidence of thousands of irregularities on Minnesota voter rolls, claiming that accusations of fraud were nothing more than "desperateness" from Republicans.
If Obama had lost by a close margin, this scenario would be playing out all across the country. American democracy is headed for banana republic status as Democrats tighten their grip on the levers of power.
On a tip from John R.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 14, 2008 8:08 AM
Comments
I can't stand the sight of this far left socialist and washed up left wing radio talk show host. What a Jackass!! There are to many clowns in office and we don't need this one. Seems like for the past 15 or 20 years the dems have to lie, cheat, and steal to get into office.
Posted by: Watching at November 14, 2008 8:51 AM
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me" (if they know what's good for them)
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at November 14, 2008 9:35 AM
This picture of Franken should be enough to get him a Cabinet post if he isn't able to steal enough votes in the recount. I think this should be just about what the world wants as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. It would be a cinch if he was sucking on a pink pacifier.
Posted by: SnowSnake at November 14, 2008 9:56 AM
This is the year the left have OPENLY shown their distain for our democratic processes and our constitution. They have made a mockery of this country. With Commissioner Obama installed in the presidency we will NEVER have an honest election again. See you in January Comrade.
Posted by: TED at November 14, 2008 10:04 AM
Welcome to The Peoples Republic of Minnesota tovarich!
Vitually all the 'found' votes came from just three precincts and 100% of the 'found' votes turned out for Franken. In addition, the number of 'found' votes for Franken outnumber the total number of corrected votes for all the rest of the offices being voted in the entire state!
Move along! Nothing to see here. Move along.
Posted by: chuck in st paul at November 14, 2008 12:05 PM
Al Freakland just a little more mature then George Stupidnopolous
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at November 14, 2008 3:30 PM
Why would any "sane person" vote for this freak? I guess that makes a lot of people in Minnesota insane eh?
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 14, 2008 5:24 PM
Those whiney-baby liberals never can accept defeat. Imagine, even after all the obvious voter fraud, ACORN's numerous unchecked violations, and possibly hundreds of thousands of ineligible Obama votes, that the McCain-Palin campaign decided to file suit and take the election to court. Imagine millions of conservatives crying about a "Stolen" election....it'll never happen.
It's always the libs crying and throwing post-election tantrums, and can never let go. I suspect that if there were a legitimate recount, and votes audited, there may have been a different outcome of the latest presidential election. Yet, we don't hear of the sort, because that is not the conservative or mature way of handling things. Buncha whiney babies.
Posted by: Pauly at November 14, 2008 8:42 PM
At least that's one good sign for our country, that there are enough votes against that ass clown to beat him, so he'd need to howl about a recount and rely on cheating just to hold off his loss.
Posted by: Adam at November 17, 2008 5:47 AM
This is exactly the same way that Christine Gregoire got herself elected as Governor of Washington State.
Posted by: Bob Smith at November 19, 2008 2:09 PM
