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Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" comedian released a podcast on health care. A few days after Thanksgiving, the ex-Senator and Democrat posted on Facebook and said how much he missed "being in the fight every day."
By fight, he meant fighting with Republicans on every issue, good or bad. It's the only way a fat butterball like Franken can "fight" without actually getting hurt.
When I left the Senate I said I was giving up my seat but not my voice, and after the midterm elections I thought I'd start experimenting with ways to make my voice heard," the groper Franken said on his podcast. He ended it by saying, "Maybe I'll do another one, I don't know."
Had weird Al not been seen in a photo [taken by his brother, if memory serves] pretending to grab a woman's breasts, and then being accused by her of forcibly kissing her during a USO tour in the Middle East in 2006, he might-have-gone-all-the-way back to the Senate. But even if that had not come out, several other women claimed that he groped them while posing for photos.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's Weather Vane [she only reacts to whichever way the wind blows because she hasn't the courage to have her own opinions] responded to the allegations against Franken by throwing him under the bus and called for him to step down. Other women Democratic senators did the same.
Franken, 67, announced his resignation in December but still maintained that some of the accusations were untrue--not all, just some--and he disputed the details. "I just touched her; I didn't squeeze."
Franken, who is Jewish, would have had a better chance of remaining in office if he was an anti-Semite and a Muslim like former Rep. Keith Ellison who is now Minnesota's attorney general and accused of sexual abuse.
And Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court despite an allegation of attempted sexual assault.
And if Franken's accusers had no proof to wild claims, and some even admitted to lying, like in the Justice Kavanaugh case, he still might have remained in office.
But the photos. Those dad-gum photos.
President Trump ridiculed Franken for not staying in the fray, for quitting too soon. At a Minnesota rally last month for a GOPer running in a special election to complete Franken's term, Trump said to the crowd that Franken folded "like a wet rag."
"Man. . . . He was gone so fast. It was like, 'Oh, he did something, oh, oh, oh, I resign. I quit. I quit. Wow," Trump said to his base.
Franken posted in his Facebook page that he is "certainly not running for anything." If he were, it wouldn't matter because his state Senate seats and governorship are locked in for the near future by fellow Democrats, some of whom worry and warn their colleagues of his return should it happen.
Norm Ornstein, a close friend of Franken’s for 30 years who is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning Washington think tank, said he and Franken have had discussions since the midterm election about how the former senator, former comedian might play a public role again.
Perhaps a school crossing guard.
“Even after being forced out of the U.S. Senate by his fellow Democrats a year ago, Franken seems to refuse to accept responsibility for his actions,” said Brian McClung, a Republican strategist who was spokesman for former Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
“Eight women accused him of sexual harassment. While people deserve second chances and the opportunity to redeem themselves, Franken has a long, long way to go,” McClung added.
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