Coleman's Disrespect For The "F Word"?

Not that one!

Nope, not fundraising.

Not freeloader either, although that's debatable.

Progressive talk show host Ed Schultz has used the radio waves to call out Norm Coleman for his "skirt chasing".

Conservative blogger Mitch Berg labeled the Senator's marriage as an "unconventional marriage" a little more than a month ago.

It’s been an open secret forever in Saint Paul and Minnesota politics; Norm and his wife have a rather unconventional marriage. Schultz is being disingenuous if he claims this is some big revelation (or, equally likely, the dim little bulb inside his thick little head hasn’t quite quite figured it out yet, and his prime directive, “blow hard first, ask questions later”, is in control).

Traffic looking for Norm Coleman marriage information in the past month has skyrocketed since Berg revealed this to the world. Seems like it was not the open secret he thought it was.

So, does Senator Coleman's "unconventional marriage" show disrespect to the "f word"?

Fidelity?

I've got to say, based on the the right wing blog traffic I've seen over the last several weeks, the last thing anyone wants to talk about in the US Senate race are the issues.

So, Norm Coleman's "unconventional marriage".

I'll say this. Having been to literally every gas station in SD 18, you won't find a Playboy anywhere.

However, Coleman's "unconventional marriage" will hurt him in our small rural communities where faith and fidelity are everyday values, not once every 6 years campaign slogans.

Norm Coleman's "unconventional marriage"?

I read "Shot in the Dark" with great interest earlier this week. Mitch Berg labeled Senator Norm Coleman's marriage as an "unconventional marriage".

It’s been an open secret forever in Saint Paul and Minnesota politics; Norm and his wife have a rather unconventional marriage. Schultz is being disingenuous if he claims this is some big revelation (or, equally likely, the dim little bulb inside his thick little head hasn’t quite quite figured it out yet, and his prime directive, “blow hard first, ask questions later”, is in control).

What the heck is an "unconventional marriage"?

Mitch is correct. These rumors have been out there for quite some time. Mitch does Senator Coleman a great service by working to confirm these rumors.

I work in a pretty conservative office. On most days, I am the token progressive, token liberal in the office. We talk politics a lot. We had long discussions about the Franken Playboy stuff. I posed this topic in the office yesterday, to 7 co-workers, involved at different levels of politics.

None of them had heard of any issues with Senator Coleman's marriage. None of them had any idea what an "unconventional marriage" was. One jokingly said that Senator Coleman was not gay and did not support "unconventional marriages". The other said it was purely a liberal smokescreeen. The rumor is/was not as widespread as Berg thinks.

How will this news be received in the conservative small towns that dot rural central Minnesota?

The Twin Cities media outlets and bloggers (myself included) hit Franken hard on the Playboy writings. Will these same mainstream media outlets put Norm Coleman under the same microscope? Especially after a right wing blogger blew the lid off the story?

To steal from Two Putt Tommy, this is the mother of all smokescreens.

SITD commenter's even say it's true.

PeterH Says:
June 9th, 2008 at
11:04 pm
Norm and his wife haven’t slept together in years?
Sounds like he’s got a traditional marriage.

Oh, that's satire...

Let's be consistent here. If we're going to criticize Al Franken for Playboy writings and other problems, which call into question his judgement, than we should do the same here. I have no idea what Senator Coleman's marital situation is. I don't really care either. However, I find it interesting how right wing blogs frame Coleman's marriage as an "unconventional marriage".

This US Senate race between Coleman and Franken has the potential to be the nastiest race in the nation this year. It will not be "Minnesota nice".

Do we want this race to be about issues? I'd rather it be on the issues, but I know Two Putt Tommy and I are ready for a rumble!

At the recent Minnesota GOP convention, Senator Coleman gave a rousing speech with a cute 8 point plan.

In the closing part of his speech, Coleman, the former Democrat, urged his now-fellow Republicans to do “a better job” of emphasizing the “core conservative Republican” values of individual rights, free enterprise, no taxes, protecting life “from conception to natural death” and supporting traditional marriage.

So he calls on supporting traditional marriage but lives an "unconventional marriage"?

Nice...

One of Paul Wellstone's most powerful quotes I recall (and witnessed in person) is "never separate the life you live from the words you speak."

I feel a bit of irony there, don't you?

More from Ed Schultz on Norm Coleman's Morality

From Friday's Ed Schultz Show:

"Now, if this continues, if this slime attack on Al Franken continues, Norm Coleman needs to know that I don't like him."

"And Norm Coleman needs to know that I have Ed Heads all over Minnesota."

"And Norm Coleman needs to know that I will seek out women who have been hit on by Norm Coleman."

"I will play dirty Norm, if you keep playing dirty on my brother Al."

"I'm so glad you brought up Norm Coleman's skirt chasing. I have an acquaintance in her early 20's, gorgeous and well endowed, and Norm tried to pick her up and a friend in a local bar, he's absolutely slimy."

"Oooo hooo. Oh, I love that stuff. I'll be the lefty pit bull who takes down Norm. Just give me the material. Give me a phone number. Let's get it on."

Ed Schultz Calls Norm Coleman A Skirt Chaser?

From the 3rd Hour of the June 6, 2008 show.

On the Al Franken scandals:

"This is all to just lather up the right, to shake down the Democrats, to make Norm Coleman look like he's an altar boy, which he is not. And that is a story that the right wing media in Minnesota will never do. You know, Norm likes to chase the skirt, you know, there's no doubt about that. Anybody wanna counter me on that? Anybody in the media want to write an editorial about what an altar boy Norm Coleman is? Any right wing talkers in Minnesota want to tell us what an upstanding, wonderful, highly moral guy Norm Coleman is? Come on! Let's get it on!"

Schultz spent significant time in the 3rd hour of his show on Friday coming to the defense of Al Franken.