This year’s senate race: Bushboy v. Playboy
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Get ready to hear Democrat Al Franken and his surrogates say this plenty of times over the next five months:
"It's not enough that George Bush is going in January of 2009. His enablers have to go with him and top on that list is Norm Coleman. He's given the president a blank check on this war and he wants to continue the Bush economic policy and the Bush Iraq policy." - Al Franken
Get ready to hear Norm Coleman and his surrogates say this plenty of times over the next five months:
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"Norm Coleman was prosecuting criminals in the Attorney General's office. Al Franken was penning skits about drugging and raping a woman. Norm Coleman cleaned up the streets of St. Paul, revitalized the city and brought back hockey and Al Franken was writing Porn-O-Rama. Norm Coleman has held the line of taxes as mayor, as a senator he's been a fiscal conservative. Al Franken wants to raise taxes on people and not pay his own." - Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan
When asked when the Coleman campaign would start running tv ads, Sheehan said:
"All of that stuff will be heating up soon. The campaign, I think, has begun in earnest now that the Democrats have picked their candidate."
Indeed.
