No Joke: Al Franken for President?

[Draggingtree]

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No Joke: Al Franken for President?

After years of shunning the spotlight in the Senate, Minnesota’s junior senator is in the limelight—and would be a formidable candidate for the Democrats.

Josh Kraushaar

Al Franken isn’t a punch line in the Sen­ate any­more. He’s emerged as one of the Demo­crats’ most ag­gress­ive and ef­fect­ive ques­tion­ers of Pres­id­ent Trump’s Cab­in­et nom­in­ees. He’s gen­er­ated nu­mer­ous made-for-TV clips as one of the few Demo­crats will­ing to go full-bore against his party’s top tar­gets—Jeff Ses­sions, Tom Price, and Betsy De­Vos. He’s fi­nally show­ing some per­son­al­ity in the Sen­ate, punc­tu­ated by his laugh-out-loud ex­change with En­ergy Sec­ret­ary-des­ig­nate Rick Perry. And he’ll be one of nine Demo­crats on the Ju­di­ciary Com­mit­tee ques­tion­ing Trump’s Su­preme Court nom­in­ee, Neil Gor­such. This is Al Franken’s mo­ment in the spot­light, and if he chooses, he could par­lay his good for­tune in­to a bid for the pres­id­ency in 2020.

 

To be sure, Franken, 65, may not be the Demo­crats’ strongest can­did­ate in the gen­er­al elec­tion. in the gen­er­al elec­tion. His deeply lib­er­al polit­ics and long-stand­ing dis­missive­ness of Re­pub­lic­ans turn off many voters in the middle. But with Demo­crats look­ing for strident op­pos­i­tion to Trump in the early days of his pres­id­ency,

 

[SrWoodchuck]

 

 

He's good enough...he's smart enough...and gosh darn it......

 

 

[Valin]

Before We Get To Busy Making fun Of Sen. Al Franken The Horses Ass, I Would simply Point Out In 2008 The MnGOP & Norm Coleman Said A Prayer At Night that They Would Run Against Al Franken The Horses Ass. That Worked Out Real Good.

 

 

Point Being...1. If He Wants It He Could Very Well Win The Nomination 2. And The General Election.

 

 

Just Saying

[Draggingtree]

Before We Get To Busy Making fun Of Sen. Al Franken The Horses Ass, I Would simply Point Out In 2008 The MnGOP & Norm Coleman Said A Prayer At Night that They Would Run Against Al Franken The Horses Ass. That Worked Out Real Good.

 

 

Point Being...1. If He Wants It He Could Very Well Win The Nomination 2. And The General Election.

 

 

Just Saying

Sorry, I find that hard to believe we have that many fools but them I remind myself of Obama

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

Remember Hillary Clinton Was IMO One Of If Not THE Worst Presidential Candidate (Including Bob Dole) I've Ever Seen.

 

 

And Yes In Fact There Are That Many Fools Out There.