Al Franken to Run for Senate

Call it the second Al Franken decade...

Washington Post:

Comedian Al Franken has decided to run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota in 2008, a senior Democratic official from Minnesota said Wednesday.

Franken told the official, who did not want to be identified because Franken has not made an announcement, that he had decided to run in a recent conversation.

Andy Barr, the political director of Franken's Midwest Values Political Action Committee, declined to comment.

The news was not unexpected. Franken has been calling members of the Minnesota congressional delegation to get their input on a run, and he announced this week that he would be leaving his show on Air America Radio on Feb. 14. He told listeners he would be making a decision on a race soon.

It should be fun -- if only for the soundbites. Franken knows what he's talking about and, despite the way the right paints him, he's a reliably center left democrat. He tends to be cast as a raving left wing lunatic because he likes to poke fun at ridiculous boobs like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.

The ridiculous boobs tend not to like that.