By Chris Steller 4/13/09 8:47 AM
The time is nigh for Norm Coleman to say goodbye. That was the word over the weekend from Kiplinger.com, USA Today and an editor at National Review. Coleman’s bid to up-end Al Franken’s U.S. Senate recount win must stop at the Minnesota Supreme Court, wrote a Star Tribune columnist. He might push it further, as a Strib story speculates today, but Newsweek predicts Coleman’s case won’t get to the nation’s high court ...
USA Today wrote:
The further Coleman’s case goes up the judicial ladder, the more strained its reasoning sounds ...
The Star Tribune’s Lori Sturdevant .... grants Coleman time for one last appeal — but no more:
A state Supreme Court ruling — and pray, make it quick — should be the final word on who won this thing...
Newsweek rejects the assertion by Sen. John Cornyn .. that Democrats now urging Coleman to quit are hypocrites in view of Al Gore’s legal efforts after the 2000 presidential election ...
http://minnesotaindependent.com/31901/drumbeat-coleman-concede