Coleman Takes On Kerry (Party Turncoat Decries "Flip-Flopping")

Push Bush. Bury Kerry.

That's pretty much the assignment for Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who has been busy working the phones on the president's behalf for the past month.

Hoping to help President Bush win a second term, Coleman has been telling reporters around the nation that Sen. John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, is a flip-flopper who's weak on defense.

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"It does seem like pretty shaky ground for a person like Senator Coleman to stand on, when he's had to change so many positions when he changed his political party," said Bill Burton, spokesman for the Kerry campaign.


Norm Coleman = pwned :)

What's next?

Zell Miller criticizing Jim Jeffords for not acting like a "real" Republican?

Pot, meet Kettle.

This is like Molotov verbally attacking Trotsky, and just as credible.

Fuck you Norm, you Brownshirt!

,...if nothing is done to counter this guy, it would be kinda like ignoring that your kids are being stalked by a child molester. These "Bushevik Whores" will track down every vulnerable, less knowledgeable, and "scared to death" individual and abuse their loyalty and trust. We really have to commit to being the protectors against these predators against our people. Doncha' think?

"being called a flip flopper by Coleman is like being called ugly by a frog."(apologies to frogs)

The "flip-flopper" strategy is as gone as the marcarena. And the 9/11 hearings has disposed of Bush's "strength" on defense very handily. Coleman must be paying too much attention to the NCAA tournament.

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rocknation

what a fucking fool.

How did this creep ever ever ever get elected in a democratic state?

There is Minnesota poster here that refuses to answer my questions about this turd Coleman.

two weeks before the election Paul was something like 6-8 points ahead of Coleman and then disaster struck. One of the reasons I truly hate Republicans is how they turned our grief over Paul against us.

I have lived in Minn for 12 years and I have seen the state rapidly decline from a progressive state to a right-wing, Mississippi wannabe run by "Suburban-gelicals". These people are truly scary, they run around in hummers from suburb to suburb, toting guns and constantly preaching to us how Jesus hates poor people and only the rich shall know the kingdom of heaven. Pawlenty, Sviggum, Kiffmeyer, Kennedy et al. are all part of the Suburban-gelical cabal.

Paul Wellstone is sorely missed, 'eh?

in a 3 way race. He gave up the senate race after Rove strong armed him out of it because Bushco wanted Normie.

according to the Vanity Fair article I read about BBV, (with our very own Bev Harris interviewed by the way) the Minnesota senate race was one of the several that was listed as sketchy at best. GREAT article by the way. It's titled 'How Unsecure Are this Election's Voting Machines?' by Michael Shnayerson in the April issue.

I was living in Minnesota during that race...a sad SAD time. I thought it was weird how defensive Coleman was when a reporter asked if he "owed" his win to the Bush administration and he gave some snide remark about how they owe him, not the other way around (I can't remember it verbatim, but it was oddly catty). Now if BBV WAS a factor, I guess Coleman's defensiveness makes a little more sense.

And what's the deal with his wife? She never looked like she even liked her husband very much...not that I blame her.

Only yesterday we saw a hummer and we speculated that hummer drivers are probably not Democrats.

The sad thing is that, apparently, Pawlenty is popular what with his drugs from Canada, etc.

Of course, many homeowners are now getting both their 2004 property tax bills and the projected value of their homes for 2005 and many jaws are dropping. Localities have to get funds from someplace, and if not from the state - thanks to Pat Anderson Awada, oh forgot, she dumped her Arab husband when it became politically expedient - then it has to be from homeowners, and senior citizens be damned.

They also see any Democrat as a communist. Norm came in 3rd best vs. Jesse Ventura and Skip Humphrey (HHH's son) in '98. Absent one plane crash and Norm's an out of work mayor begging dubya for a job.

Formerly from MN

Thanks for the input Mark.

He was elected to a full term. It's important to point out that when he ran for governor and when he ran for the senate, he failed to win a single precinct in St. Paul (where he had been mayor) including his own.

He's a weasel.

With the absentee ballots for Senator Wellstone and the votes for Senator Mondale, COLEMAN LOST.

Those who voted absentee for Senator Wellstone basically had their votes nullified, which I feel violates their civil rights. My husband and I tried to introduce a resolution at our precinct caucus calling for a full investigation into the plane crash and why the election wasn't delayed to incorporate new absentee ballots. But 'Minnesota nice' still prevails in the DFL, and it was voted down, as everybody (except us) said 'gee, they wouldn't do that' and 'let's move on, and get over it.' Wusses.

with the "weak on defense charge".

Our friend Norm is also the biggest flip-flopper in history.

the combat veteran republicans like mccain and hagel defend kerry.

1. That he would vote against drilling for oil in Alaska wildlife refuge
2. That he would vote for extending the assualt weapons ban

He "flip-flopped" on both issues.

I bow to no one in my disgust for Coleman. But whatever his rhetorical flip flops, he still voted no.

http://www.greenaction.org/powerplants/press/sfgate032003.shtml

Your Demonfighter is in MN. When Wellstone got whacked this Whistleass follower signed a deal with the devil. Cheney and Shrub were grooming him beforehand and made another Repug step down. Coleman was hated from before when he was elected as a Dem. and slyly pulled off his sheep clothing and became a proud repug. I think his wife dumped him. You could see the terror on both of their faces when he was installed over Wellstone.
They had the gall to turn the Wellstone memorial event against Mondale who only had a week to take Wellstone's place. If only Paul was still here, ole whistleass would be getting an earful. Paul Wellstone was truly one of a kind in the mold of JFK and now we will never know what life would've been like with him around.
I still don't see that MN is changed to rightwingers. I think it is part of the national scam to make Bush look like the chosen one. :freak:

That A hole willl rot in hell.

Hopefully, Franken will run in 2008.

I honestly don't believe he had anything to do with Wellstone's death. (I do, however, believe it was a Bush/Rove operation.) I've never seen anyone look much greener than he did the day Wellstone died, not out of grief, but because I think his lizard brain was telling him this was no accident. I don't think the weasel had figured out what kind of sharks he was swimming with until Wellstone died and he was scared.

Voted by Pulse of the Twin Cities.

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Mayhem in Minnesota. Coleman and the Repukes took full advantage of our grief and they had a plan, we did not. With his wife and daughther going with with him. Left us with nothing.
The DFL really tried to get this going and it was very confusing.
That's the only reason he got in. The Repukes have plenty on Coleman and he has to do exactly what they say.

...in three quick talking points.

1) Neither the state DFL nor the DNC had ever seriously groomed a successor for Wellstone, who, despite great personal popularity, stood outside the increasingly corporate Democratic party. It's safe to see neither body wanted another Wellstone.

2) Mondale was perceived as old, tired, and vulnerable--an eminence gris past his prime, which, let us not forget, never had been very compelling anyway. Brave of him to take on that horrible task; foolish of the party to have to turn to him.

3) Minnesota is far from being the liberal state of old, due to the shifting demographic brought about by a quarter century of dramatic growth. Wellstone was already in the race of his life--against a robotic midget like Coleman!--when tragedy struck.

Mondale still would have won but for the memorial service. Mondale had the sympathy vote rug pulled out from under his feet.

He fought the bush* machine on his own.

While bush* and Cheney and other republican fat cats were regulaly hosting many fund raisers and rallies in Minnesota, not one of the Democratic Party bigwigs came to Minnesota to support Wellstone for this crucial race.

the morning of his death? In fact, I think that Paul invited Ted to fly to the Iron Range with him.

of pudding could win. After affects of 9-11? BBV?

The secretary of state (Republicanite) ruled that absentee ballots for Coleman would count but that absentee ballots for Wellstone could not count for Mondale. Absentees would have to cast new ballots by 8PM on Election Day, which most couldn't do because they were, well, absent.

I was living in Oregon at the time, and my mother and stepfather were visiting. They were mighty upset when they learned about this, since they had sent in ballots for Wellstone before leaving for Portland.

I really don't know what to make of him..