Norm Coleman: "I'm A Winner"

Minnesota Independent:

U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman broke his silence on the recount in Minnesota's election for the seat he holds today, saying "I'm a winner" and predicting that most of the mounting number of challenged ballots -- including his campaign's apparently -- will be dismissed.

Of the Coleman and Al Franken campaigns' increasingly aggressive ballot challenges, Coleman said, "There are games being played on both sides and it would be great if people put the games aside." He disavowed personal involvement in the recount's nitty-gritty -- "I'm not involved in day-to-day recount stuff" -- but offered this apparently informed opinion: "I would bet that most of the challenges are going to be dismissed."

Asked about any awkwardness in his position as a sitting senator who may or may not have won re-election, Coleman responded: "I'm still senator. I believe I'm a winner. ... I'm proceeding with the belief that we prevailed the first night, prevailed in the certification and we'll prevail again."

Read the whole story: Minnesota Independent

Comments

[Le nombril]

10:11 AM on 11/23/2008

Well, he's partially right. Norm Coleman is a lousy senator and a poor excuse for a public servant, but he does tend to win the elections that he runs in. I guess that makes him a winner. As for the current race, it doesn't matter if he only wins by one vote, he still wins because we have a "winner take all" system. I expect that he will win this election because up until this point he has been ahead the whole way and I don't think that will change, even though the margin of victory will be small. And that makes me sad.

Where Norm is wrong is that he somehow believes that he deserves his wins or has somehow earned them. He hasn't. Norm seems interested in only one thing and that is himself. Oh sure, he talks about reaching across the aisle and doing what's right for the people of Minnesota and the nation, but he never quite does it, at least not very effectuall­y.

[bubbuh]

08:02 AM on 11/23/2008

I think Norm intended to say, "I'm a whiner."

[HoraceOvidson]

02:29 AM on 11/23/2008

Hold on there, Norm, buddy! You gave us some premature agitation.

[Antifascist-08]

10:13 PM on 11/22/2008

This just in:

MISPRINT:

I am a whiner.

[BBackSoon]

10:49 PM on 11/22/2008

or what it weiner?

[leeman79]

07:01 PM on 11/22/2008

What's the deal with the teeth? He looks like he could have been in an old Martin/Lew­is movie. The wacky professor or something.

[kimleehan]

02:18 PM on 11/22/2008

I think he was misunderst­ood. He did'nt say winner, he said wiener, I'm a wiener, that makes more since than I'm a winner, does'nt it.

[AllenD]

02:58 PM on 11/22/2008

Either that or "I'm a whiner."

[Spud777]

01:47 PM on 11/22/2008

I think this unethical senator meant "I am a weiner".

[drumz]

01:51 PM on 11/22/2008

My thoughts exactly!

[indy girl]

01:46 PM on 11/22/2008

fake teeth!!!

[mooph]

03:09 PM on 11/22/2008

I don't think any dentist would have done that poor of a job.

[jackmayoff]

01:29 PM on 11/22/2008

Hey Mr. Ed called he wants his bridle back.

[landoffools]

12:44 PM on 11/22/2008

Only a matter of time before Norm's own "Rent Boy" will appear !

[mervr1]

12:39 PM on 11/22/2008

More like I'm a whiner or weiner.

[MNmommy]

12:37 PM on 11/22/2008

Coleman is no winner, he's a lucky handpicked by Cheney S. O. B.

This:

http://www­.c-spanarc­hives.org/­library/in­dex.php?ma­in_page=pr­oduct_vide­o_info&pro­ducts_id=1­73566-1

is why Franken needs to win.

Go Al! for Wellstone!

[AmbivalentGuy]

12:14 PM on 11/22/2008

Oh - that smile - ouch.
He looks like a sleazy used car dealer.
"Oh, no. All that smoke coming from under the hood.
That's normal. That's the power you're not using right now,
you won't even see it when you hit 60."

Under the fairness doctrine, I then forced myself
to consider what kind of salesman Franken would be.

Somehow, I couldn't come up with anything more than
Franken, working in a low end dress store, saying,
"Yes, ma'am, I understand that you are a size 6, but I think
they've sized these wrong.
Let's see how you look in this 24W."

[beanchihuahua]

11:41 AM on 11/22/2008

You all are hilarious with the teeth comments. Keep them coming!!!

[HesDanTheMan]

11:23 AM on 11/22/2008

If by some small chance Coleman should win....You watch, within the year if that long, something will come up that will be one more embarrassm­ent for the GOP and for Coleman and his wife.
It just hasn't been discovered yet! But it will......­...