Norm Coleman Gets His Taste of Maverick Support

Truly, Senator Coleman must be proud, now that he’s enjoying the sweet rewards of becoming one with the maverick paradigm.

Not only did he undermine that pesky conservative energy initiative by joining The Gang of 10, but he voted for the $700 Billion dollar bailout and gave the biggest middle finger to his conservative supporters yet.  Truly, he must have been channeling Senator McCain, who was too busy running for President to do all this himself.  The Master Maverick alone could have could have conceived of such maverick brilliance just shy of an election.

Now, Coleman may get an election stolen from him by a comedian because the vote was so close, Democratic partisans can confuse the issue by suddenly finding ‘uncounted’ ballots all over the state.  As of this post, in fact, Al Franken is in the lead.  Should he win, he’ll have promoted himself from a bad joke to a cruel joke, and improved his status in the world.

Why is this happening?  In my humble opinion, it’s because Coleman has proven himself worthy of maverick support by acting like the Master Maverick, John McCain.  In fact, I’ve received more than one emergency request for funding from the National Republican Lawyer’s Association as they attempt to avert this travesty.  This suggests that Coleman is enjoying more than his fair share of maverick donations and support on his behalf.  After all of his maverick work, he deserves it.

And since you might wonder:  no, I’m not brushing past the ‘election stealing’ part of all of this.  I’m just celebrating an overwheming groundswell of maverick support for yet another deserving Senator.  How else to you explain the maverick success Coleman may well receive in getting re-elected?

I bet Coleman just loves emulating the Master Maverick now.  Who wouldn’t?

Filed under: Commentary and Opinion on December 24th, 2008 No Comments