Red Wing Republican Eagle:
To hear some talk radio pundits and blowhards [ed. note: needlessly repetitive] tell it, comedian/author Al Franken's bid for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota is just another joke. They are trying to write off Franken as a liberal lightweight who has no business challenging incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.
They protest too much.
It could be they realize Franken will be a formidable candidate. It could be Coleman fans are so nervous about even the possibility Franken could get the DFL endorsement that they are pulling out all the stops now in an effort to discredit the former Saturday Night Live regular.
Damn, they're on to us. I guess it's time to fess up. It's true, we're simply terrified of the prospect of an intellectual heavyweight with a populist touch like Al Franken challenging Norm Coleman. The mere thought of Franken's rousing stump speeches keeps us up at night and haunts our sweat-soaked dreams. We knew that was no chance we could ever hope to defeat such a formidable candidate and realized that our only chance was to mount a desperate effort to "Swift Boat" Franken before his campaign built the momentum of a runaway freight train.
Sigh. Now that the cat's out of the bag, it looks like all is lost. There's nothing we do to derail the Franken juggernaut, which will surely steamroll to victory in 2008. It's time to accept the inevitable and admit that we're powerless over the force of Al Franken.
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