What makes you think your insults are meaningful to me? You are so empty-headed that I find them to be compliments. Would that I were judged by the enemies I made! You are apparently incapable of responding to reasoned arguments and evidence with reason, and when you are called out for your lack of evidence and proof, you merely resort to petty, childish insults. I, for one, am proud to live in a state capable of electing a member of a third party to its governorship. Jesse Ventura is no more of a joke than that most famous of Republicans, the reigning governor of California. And frankly, both of them were/are far better governors than empty-headed conservative idealogues like Sarah Palin.

So keep up with the insults if you like. Petty insults and childish name-calling are, after all, the preferred tactics of Limbaugh, Coulter, et al when they are faced with cold, hard facts. Your ignorance and peurile attitude only further discredit you and your fallacious assertions in the eyes of the letter readers here. Who do you think you are convincing? And what do you think you are convincing them of? Because from where I'm sitting the only thing you're doing is making yourself look continually more stupid.

Meanwhile here is some light reading to debunk all those silly myths you keep insisting are true. http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=al+franken

Because you have consistently failed to produce evidence supporting any of your parroted talking-head lies, I will demonstrate to you now what "evidence" looks like. My example: Here is evidence that voter turnout in Minnesota is traditionally high.

From the Department of Administration of the state of Minnesota:

"Minnesota's voter turnout is the highest in the nation, and remained fairly consistent in presidential and congressional elections during the past decade. Turnout is typically highest during presidential election years."

and

"Voter turnout in Minnesota typically runs at least 15 percentage points above the national average. National voter turnout in the 2000 presidential election was 51 percent, compared to 69 percent in Minnesota."

source: http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/mm/indicator.html?Id=34&G=34&CI=34

See, dear? That is what evidence looks like. Keep in mind that evidence depends on the reliability of the source, so saying "Rush Limbaugh puked these fake statistics into my mouth like a mama penguin and now I am regurgitating them back for you!" isn't going to count for much here.

You are aware, are you not, that Minnesota has long held the nickname "the civic state"? Do you know why this is?

Because Minnesota consistently has the highest voter turnout rate of any state in the country. For you to say it is shocking, shocking! that Minnesota should have a high voter turnout in this case as well is absurd and goes a long way to prove how ignorant you are of Minnesota, its politics, its governmental processes, and certainly, of the circumstances of this recount.

Kindly get some perspective, or at least STFU.

Norm Coleman comes immediately to mind.

As someone who currently lives in Minnesota, all I have to say is that it's stunning to hear the national coverage of the recount. You would think local and national talkers were covering two completely different events! From what I can tell there has been no suggestion from local Republicans or local Republican-affiliated election judges that Franken is believed to have committed any kind of fraud. Rather, the whole recount process has been not only transparent and fair but surprisingly amicable. If you only listened to Minnesota Public Radio and never turned on Faux News, you'd never know about any of this fraud crap.

Apparently Minnesota is not just the Civic State, it's the civil state. The rest of the country, far from treating us like dummies as the Republicans suggest, should learn from Minnesota's example.

I think politicians actually know that most people in America don't give a crap about the Israel-Palestine conflict. But that's just the thing. Most people don't give a crap... and a very tiny, very loud, very wealthy and politically influential minority DOES give a crap. The hold of pro-Israel, anti-Palestine lobby groups in Washington is astounding. Politicians rarely ever do what the public really wants them to do... they are basically shielded from the public by lobby groups that throw around money and demands as though the government were directly answerable to them. And frankly, politicians do a damn good job playing along by those rules.