Pop quiz (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*): What do you do when you're a Republican Senator in a close race against a man with a history of smacking down Republicans? Aside from shifting to more liberal positions on issues from the environment to the war, I guess you could, um, accuse the other guy of being too partisan.

“If the partisan disease is what’s tearing Washington apart, for years he was part of that,” said Coleman, who officially launches his campaign Wednesday. “The talk radio culture, the Rush Limbaughs, the Ann Coulters, the Al Frankens. If that’s the disease, I’ve tried to be the cure to that disease for a long time.”

Since he can't win on the issues, the incumbent is trying to make the challenger seem like a Washington insider. This would be like John McCain saying Barack Obama is too unstable and out of touch to be President.
Newsflash to Norm Coleman, you are the one who has taken more trips on corporate jets than all but one other Senator. Via MN Blue, Alliance for a Better Minnesota is doing a petition targeting Sen. Coleman for the excessive gifts he's received from corporations.


But wait, it gets worse. Norm Coleman's isn't just any jet-setting flip-flopping Republican Senator. He's the Rah Rah Rah Guy for the Republican party. The DSCC has more including the 2004 statement from a Bush-Cheney spokesperson calling Coleman "one of the party's most effective spokesmen and advocate for the president's message."
Give Al Franken some money. Go on, you know you want to.
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