Comments on: Norm Coleman: Not Getting Things Done, Or Is It All To Plan? http://mnpublius.com/2008/10/norm-coleman-not-getting-things-done/ Tracking Minnesota Politics Since 2005 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:48:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Coleman’s Friends Still Not Cooperating | MNpublius.com http://mnpublius.com/2008/10/norm-coleman-not-getting-things-done/#comment-26521 Coleman’s Friends Still Not Cooperating | MNpublius.com Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:01:00 +0000 http://mnpublius.com/?p=3372#comment-26521 [...] MNpublius touched on this yesterday: what’s the deal with Norm Coleman’s friends not cooperating with his “no-negativity” request? Today, the AP chimes in: Political groups that support Sen. Norm Coleman in his re-election bid continue to air ads that target his opponent Al Franken despite Coleman’s request that they stop. [...] […] MNpublius touched on this yesterday: what’s the deal with Norm Coleman’s friends not cooperating with his “no-negativity” request? Today, the AP chimes in: Political groups that support Sen. Norm Coleman in his re-election bid continue to air ads that target his opponent Al Franken despite Coleman’s request that they stop. […]

]]> By: The Venerable Bede http://mnpublius.com/2008/10/norm-coleman-not-getting-things-done/#comment-26450 The Venerable Bede Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:32:19 +0000 http://mnpublius.com/?p=3372#comment-26450 Good question Aaron, one that appears to be pondered in regard to many Republican candidates from McCain on down and throughout the nation as well. There seems to be a panicky struggling and treading of water in heavy seas… Who would have thought we’d see such flailing as a result of the damage done to the GOP brand. I would have thought it could not hit them so hard. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Coleman HQ or to really know what’s going on in his head, but alas, he may not know himself. It's possible. amuseinc, that line about the suppression of Norm’s maleness? SHUDDER! Don’t DO that dude! Good question Aaron, one that appears to be pondered in regard to many Republican candidates from McCain on down and throughout the nation as well. There seems to be a panicky struggling and treading of water in heavy seas… Who would have thought we’d see such flailing as a result of the damage done to the GOP brand. I would have thought it could not hit them so hard. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Coleman HQ or to really know what’s going on in his head, but alas, he may not know himself. It’s possible.

amuseinc, that line about the suppression of Norm’s maleness? SHUDDER! Don’t DO that dude!

]]> By: amuseinc http://mnpublius.com/2008/10/norm-coleman-not-getting-things-done/#comment-26445 amuseinc Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:48:41 +0000 http://mnpublius.com/?p=3372#comment-26445 Oh come on this is the best of both world for Norm the Weasel. It is as planned as his next visit with a drunken lobbyist and comes direct from crafty old New York Norm. First unleash a rude and angry attack at your opponent, then really roll around in the mud until people get tired of it, declare yourself aghast at the tactics and then react like your chaste self can not believe how dirty politics has become... because of your opponent. The reason that it is not working is pretty simple, the Franken campaign has never done anything but respond to the attacks and go after the deeds of Norm. You aren't throwing mud when you use his record as your source material. Think of that picture with Bush and Coleman arms around each other... at the time Norm had to suppress his maleness at being so to his lord and master. Now it doesn't look so good... Norm the opportunist has just backed the wrong horse. It happens to all gamblers without a backbone or a shred of morals. Had no President Incompetent and his Republican minions like Norm not so totally screwed up our country, you would have seen that picture in Norm ads instead of Franken ads. I think it would have helped if Norm had not picked the same ad agency as that idiot Kennedy did... Dallas is a long way from understanding Minnesota. Oh come on this is the best of both world for Norm the Weasel. It is as planned as his next visit with a drunken lobbyist and comes direct from crafty old New York Norm. First unleash a rude and angry attack at your opponent, then really roll around in the mud until people get tired of it, declare yourself aghast at the tactics and then react like your chaste self can not believe how dirty politics has become… because of your opponent.

The reason that it is not working is pretty simple, the Franken campaign has never done anything but respond to the attacks and go after the deeds of Norm. You aren’t throwing mud when you use his record as your source material. Think of that picture with Bush and Coleman arms around each other… at the time Norm had to suppress his maleness at being so to his lord and master. Now it doesn’t look so good… Norm the opportunist has just backed the wrong horse. It happens to all gamblers without a backbone or a shred of morals. Had no President Incompetent and his Republican minions like Norm not so totally screwed up our country, you would have seen that picture in Norm ads instead of Franken ads.

I think it would have helped if Norm had not picked the same ad agency as that idiot Kennedy did… Dallas is a long way from understanding Minnesota.

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