"I, as a former Democrat, former Republican and now (consider myself) Independent voter"
Independent=demoslop but ashamed to admit it.
"I'm not as enthused about Al Franken and feel he's not only too controversial and far left but there was great speculation about the way he was elected".
Al franken was/is a comedian, a lousy one, that ran as a joke, and no one was more surprised than him when he was elected. He's still a joke, a bad one.