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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI found the perfect person who can run for the senate seat that Al Franken will resign from.
He is a perfect candidate who will take over after Tina Smith gets some months in at the job of senator. Yes, after Tina, there will someone else. And he has "total" class.
He has experience, sense of humor, intelligence, kindness, and wit. Been around awhile, and has lots of real "class." While there might be some controversy about him running for this seat, he would make a great follow up to Tina Smith. And......The person to run for that seat, after Tina ,...is clearly.. well you know??........
.Al Franken...... who else??.....................................................
Al keeps his word about resigning, then returns in total victory after an incredible landslide!!!!!
Oh?... not possible?? ....Well stranger things have happened....Haven't they?
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)President Franken.
dchill
(38,617 posts)Stuart G
(38,458 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,929 posts)Too bad, because he'd probably have made a good one.
But he is already 66, and we seriously need younger candidates. Plus, since he did choose to resign, you need to recognize that Republicans would have a total field day about his alleged sexual crimes.
dchill
(38,617 posts)The more you say it, the more you believe it. Perfect baseless canard.
Republicans will have a "total field day" about ANYONE running against them in any race. It's who they are.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,929 posts)Didn't confront the claims against him.
I am NOT saying those claims are true. Clearly they are not. But his resignation would be a permanent cloud of his candidacy.
Certainly, he does not seem to be slowing down at all at his age. But we need someone much younger as the candidate.
One of the things that bothered me a lot about the Clinton-Trump matchup (and would have bothered me even more about a Sanders-Trump matchup) was the age of both of them. Electing either one of them was going to be a step back from our first GenX President, Barack Obama.
It is very much time to pass the torch to a new generation.
diva77
(7,683 posts)more youthful, that would solve the perceived "age" problem. We've had some great dems as VPs!
(I doubt he'll run but seriously wish he would).
pansypoo53219
(21,009 posts)brooklynite
(94,974 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)and for their votes.
onenote
(42,831 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)with the help of our own party.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)"Al Franken forced to resign from Senate following sex assault charges"
I doubt Franken will run for public office again
Demsrule86
(68,800 posts)It is over. Let it go. I was unhappy too...but we must move on.