The Minnesota Supreme Court has handed down its much-expected ruling in the heavily-litigated Minnesota Senate race from 2008 -- and it's a unanimous one -- deciding against Republican former Sen. Norm Coleman's appeal of his defeat in the election trial and affirming the lower court's verdict that Democratic comedian Al Franken is the legitimate winner of the race.
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Update: Coleman has conceded. It's over. Sixty, baby.
Guess all that wasted money on the failed Air America was not so wasted after all. Imagine if Rush Limbaugh was senator # 60....
It does seem to be sending the right into fits, which makes zero sense since it's been a foregone conclusion for months now. Close race. Recount shifted the lead. No evidence of chicanery.
However, Rush will never, ever stand for election. He wouldn't be able to control the narrative or the stories about himself, and he wouldn't be willing to expose himself to that level of scrutiny. Oh, and he'd get his ASS handed to him with a quickness. He's been saying brutally inflammatory shit for 20 years just to rile up the most reactionary doofuses in his mouthbreathing base, and those quips will NOT play will with the vast center of the country.
Franken, on the other hand, has mostly made sport of that same right-wing fringe. Which is why people like him, in part.