First off, I have taken swipes at Franken before- here on the HZ. In no way do I think hes qualified. However, if I had a dime for ever unqualified idiot who gets elected, left or right, I would not be sweating over my 401k. Hell, I'll add that hes even a shitty comedian.

Now, secondly, you sanctimonious prig, why on earth should I have to prove myself more consistent than you in order to make an entirely different point. Since you can't seem to read what you don't want to hear, my point is simply that the democrats have a slim but not poor chance to get 60, and the franken race and an upset in Texas are possible.

Third, you asinine hypocrite, over and over you have stood by Palin on issues of qualification. Your touchstone argument of last resort has been, over and over that 'just about anyone could be president'. So, you smudge my consistency on the way to somehow complaining about the qualifications for a senator? Am I to buy that a Senator needs more qualifications than the POTUS?

Finally- Fuck you and the broken down Randian Worldview you road in on if you think you can tell me what I do and don't believe. Not about Franken, not about politics, and not about anything. You have zero understanding of anyone who disagrees with you- just an assemblage of trite dumbed-down little caricatures of the ideas and actors you fear and loath. You don't actually talk or listen to anyone who takes any position antithetical to your little worldview- you sit in your little sandbox and toss sand on these little pale representations, then smugly snort and slap your chest and declare victory. And when (as is often of late) people finally do back you into the corner of your own intellectual brittleness, you don't even respond How many times have I seen Alcaray nail you? But you are still sitting there spinnig like a top and spiking the ball. Debate with you isn't an effective process, its calvin ball and you're the one making all the rules.

I'm going to enjoy watching you sputter and whine about ACORN and rigged votes after the election. Let me be the first to offer to call a 'Whaaambulance'. Not that it hasn't been a joy watching you go from moderately consistent and reasonably principled intellectual to a talking point gibbering little intellectual butt monkey, busily slurping on ever talking point shoved in your face.

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