It didn't work out very well in the case of Fred Thompson, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger Clint Eastwood, or Jesse Ventura. Who were you thinking of? Gopher from the love boat? Sonny Bono?

None of these people were very good actors or politicians.

I for one welcome the lizard people as our Minnesotan overlords.:D

Radar, you may not like them, but it would appear that Thompson, Reagan, and Schwarzenegger made the jump to politics with great success.

Lizard People definitely meant to vote for franken.
On every other race, the write-in oval was filled in next to the 'lizard people' write-in. On the senate race, while Lizard People was still written in, the oval wasn't filled, and the filled oval for Franken should definitely be construed as intent.

If you consider irresponsible deficit spending, tripling the national debt, taking credit for things you didn't do, denying the things you actually did, trading arms for hostages, lying to the American people, and condoning attacks on civil rights to be great success I suppose you're right.

Reagan was the second or third worst president in American history behind George W. Bush, and Woodrow Wilson. Schwarzenegger had good intentions, but he can't get any real cuts in spending with the socialist California state senate in the majority so he's pretty much failed as a leader and at crossing the isle. Thompson really isn't even worth mentioning. His acting career has always been more important to him than his political career and he's a quitter. Of the actors who have gone into politics, he's slightly better than the others, but equally crappy as a politician.

I wonder if Obama actually wants Franken in the Senate. Based on his radio nonsense our potential Minnesota overlord is just the sort of touch hole who will send partisanship over the moon.

I never listened to Franken while he was on Air America, but the few times I've read something he's written, I was impressed. He may have acted like a reactionary lefty, but Bush caused a lot of people to do that. What was his 'nonsense' like?

I admit I have a copy of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right downstairs that I bought last month at the library book sale and haven't opened yet.

It's going to be my 'vacation book'.

BTW, heres a clip of Franken speaking with Ann Coulter

I find him to be very much like Sean Hannity. He wouldn't be able to build an audience of his own, but can roll out the platitudes, and appeal to the bigotries of his side, making the base angry and mobilized, but lacking the talent of Limbaugh when it comes to blending lies with"humor" or actually building a movement.

Griff, that is an exceptional summary of those people.

Hence why Air America was such a failure, not to mention all the financial trouble Frankin and and his buddies got into. Sort of like the way Congress is throwing money out without it being monitored.

Fixed your Limbaughism.

Fixed your Demoncratic way of seeing the world with rose colored glasses.

The Democrats in congress were wrong to trust the Bush administration with a blank check when he was talking down the economy. They will be fully responsible at the end of January, partisan Republicans can start bitching then. Is this a Limbaugh/Rove rewrite you're selling or your own creation?