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From the AP's Kyle Potter:
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manor321
(3,344 posts)Keep these damned former Republicans out of our Congress. We have plenty of life long progressive Democrats to vote for.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)...was just fine. The pre-Trump GOP (going all the way back to the days of Nixon) is what created the current monster.
byronius
(7,395 posts)Plenty of good Democrats started out conservative. For instance, I gave a speech supporting Richard Nixon in seventh grade.
By the time I could vote, though, I voted Democratic. Every time. Never even considered the GOP. Always viewed them as obviously the Worst Possible -- basic history and science fiction can cure a lot of right wing, man.
Proud to be able to say that.
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Not that Painter is equivalent, but I wouldn't rule out somebody because they used to be a Republican.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)and Im so pissed you got run out on a rail.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)UTUSN
(70,700 posts)dhill926
(16,339 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Eight accusers.
Three are confirmed to be lying, two-faced trumpanzees who gladly voted for a known pussygrabber.
Four are horseshit anonymous accusers who lies are only backed by hearsay and who won't give Franken the chance to confront them.
The last is Tina Dupuy, an obvious attention seeker whose weaksauce allegation (which was the final nail in Franken's coffin, btw) basically boils down to this:
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)At least Tina Smith is a real Democrat.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Or if she'll keep the seat ratfucked by the Roger Stone.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,431 posts)Franken not being in the Senate is a tremendous loss.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Without Franken's questioning of beauguard the racist, there's NO recusal of the racist elf, and there's NO Mueller.
Yep, Al was shivved by thuglicans and by some in his OWN party 😪
mythology
(9,527 posts)Was he in on the conspiracy against himself?
When you are so eager to not believe something that you intentionally misrepresent what the accusations were, you really undercut your argument. Dupuy didn't accuse Franken of touching her shoulder.
druidity33
(6,446 posts)Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)They only "felt" mistreated, so he must apologize. How deep did those feelings go?
Seriously, Franken chose resignation as the best thing for him to do.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)from turncoat dems. So he took one for the team.
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)funnier and funnier.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Yes, he apologized for the picture, and for the fact that a group of women felt the need to express how uncomfortable they felt around him.
That's how he is, Franken is a decent man. But people, like you, are too eager to get rid of him.
Read what Dupuy alleged that Franken did, and ask yourself if we should outlaw holding people by the waist when taking photos. Her accusation makes a mockery of victims who went through much worse.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Richard Painter was one of the good guys.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)People seem to like that.
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)who up until get recently kept calling for "the real Republicans" to rise up and overthrow the wackos.
I don't want any Republican who has given up on the Republicans going back to their imaginary roots and now wants the Democrats to fill that niche .
2naSalit
(86,643 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)about being a for-real Democrat as to other issues. I hope he endorses Tina Smith and campaigns on her behalf.
ecstatic
(32,705 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)pecosbob
(7,541 posts)but the man is nowhere close to being progressive enough to represent a state as blue as Minnesota.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I like his anti-Trump Republican voice, but that didn't make him a Democrat in my eyes. I'm so glad the voters there agreed.
JI7
(89,250 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Tina won over Richard Painter, Amy Klobuchar easily won her spot on the Dem ticket, Tim Pawlenty lost the repub nomination for governor (yea), Tim Walz for governor (running mate is Peggy Flanagan (a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe), and Keith Ellison easily took the spot for Minnesota Attorney General. Of course, Keith will be going through an ethics investigation, but Minnesotans lost Al Franken on questionable accusations and we're not about to do that again without a fight. State wide Democratic candidates are looking good, so the November election is looking a little brighter. I have actually started breathing again!
jalan48
(13,869 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,151 posts)Really, fuck Painter.
Niagara
(7,620 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)I don't trust Painter, I'm relieved he didn't win.
mcar
(42,334 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Besides, despite his opposition to Trump, he is a Republican, now wearing Democratic clothes. Minnesota DFL voters are too smart to fall for that masquerade.
Tina Smith's GOP opponent is a dimpled, grinning, blonde cheerleader type who spouts empty platitudes as her only campaign rhetoric. She will lose to Tina, who is a solid Democrat who should appeal to the entire spectrum of DFL voters in MN.