Ramesh Ponnuru has urged Coleman to drop out twice in the last two days, including this yesterday:
If he keeps up the fight, he is likely to lose, unnecessarily deprive Minnesota of a second senator, end his political career seen as a sore loser, and hurt his party in a state that is eager for this fight to be over. His team has talked enough about further legal challenges that if he leaves now, he will get some points for grace. (Needless to say, that sentiment would not be universal.) But this is, I think, the last moment where he can exit with some dignity.
I'm not sure about the dignity part, but it's clear that pushing forward at this point is certainly putting him in "sore loser" territory.
The National Review also hosted this mess of a piece by Minnesota lawyer and wingnut blogger Scott Johnson. I say "mess of a piece" because, well, apparently they've run out of editors at the NRO. It's near unreadable, paragraphs are missing transitions, the chronology is jumbled, the logic is suspect, and premises are left unsupported. For example, while a key point of the piece seems to be "the Coleman team got out-hustled by the Franken team", it doesn't exactly support that assertion. It's true, the Coleman team changed its legal theories on a near-daily basis, but that tells me they were working hard to find anything that would stick with the judges. The facts of the case simply didn't favor them.
All that said, the bottom line of Johnson's piece is that this thing is over. And to all the hack GOP partisans trying to delegitimize Franken's victory, there's this, from one of their movement's most partisan voices:
I can’t find a single good thing to say about [Al Franken] except that he didn’t steal the election.