Minnesota Senatorial Race, Al Franken and Feigned Outrage

Diary Entry by E. Nelson
OpEdNews

Al Franken deserves more credit and support from the Minnesota DFL that he has so passionately worked for.

::::::::
Tomorrow morning the Minnesota DFL will nominate who they think is best suited to defeat Norm Coleman for the Minnesota senate seat race this fall. The GOP’s frenzied attacks on Al and their continual feigned outrage about some of Al’s writings from over a decade ago is a good indication of who the GOP does not want to face in the fall.

While staunch DFL activists are all in agreement that Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer would make a good candidate, there is a big difference between being a good candidate and a viable candidate that could actually beat the Bushie incumbent Norm Coleman.

Al Franken’s most recent trouble has occurred over a satirical piece about virtual sex that he wrote for Playboy magazine eight years ago. It is probably safe to say that Al Franken, who at that time had not decided to go into politics, would now probably like to be able to go back into time and take that article back.

It is not unexpected that the GOP would jump all over this and run their patented feigned outrage media blitz. What is somewhat disappointing is how easily the Minnesota DFL’ers like Congresswoman Betty McCollum, Congressman Tim Walz, Congressman Keith Ellison, and Congressman Jim Oberstar caved into the feigned outrage. Tim Walz especially should have shown a little more loyalty to Al Franken who almost single-handedly helped Tim win one of the biggest upset races in Minnesota in a Republican stronghold two years ago. Keith Ellison was given a very visible platform and was strongly supported by Al Franken and Air America Radio. The bottom line is Al Franken has raised more money for Minnesota DFL’ers and worked harder than any other Minnesota DFL activist in recent memory.

(Continued here.)