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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
We run Al Franken for Senate and get criticized for no sense of humor?
That's almost as funny as runing Al Gore.
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Not snotty enough. Too much of an everyman. For years, the GOP has milked middle class voters who want to call themselves wealthy by branding itself as the party of the moneyed (the funniest myth, since there are just as many wealthy democrats as republicans). People could feel like they were players if they favored the GOP. It was a cheap way of advertising your "prosprusness," like a BMW or a Rolex or talking about vacations in places in the Caribbean Expedia described as "upper crust."
If Franken put his excellent wit into a Bill Buckleyish delivery he'd do better. He tries to dumb it down to the level of the likes of Limbaugh or O'Reilly. He should be aiming for a higher common denominator.
