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The Political Obituary of Scott Walker
Today’s headlines were supposed to be the political obituary of Scott Walker. The Union red shirts were supposed to be celebrating in joy today as Walker was to be vanquished. It did not quite go according to script.
Should we be celebrating?
Not yet. This battle is anything but over.
The GOP lost two seats. That was not a surprise. The radical left cherry picked the districts they wanted to go after. They picked what they thought were the six weakest. Dan Kapanke had an up hill fight all the way and Randy Hopper is involved in a nasty divorce amid allegations that he not only has a girlfriend twenty years his junior but helped her get a job with the Walker administration.
Considering the baggage Hopper took with him into the election, it is no surprise that he lost.
The media has been obsessed with the recall of the Republican Senators but has almost totally ignored the recall of two Democratic state senators that will happen next week.
Democratic Senators Randy Wirch and Jim Holperin were among the Democrats who left the state rather than vote on the budget that the GOP had proposed. There should be three Democrats on the state but the bright lights running the campaign of a third Republican challenger failed to get the number of signatures needed for a qualifying petition. They were two short. (Memo to who ever ran that campaign. For a qualifying petition, you ALWAYS get many more signatures than you will need)
If one or both of these members of the Party of Corruption can be recalled, the GOP will have a greater margin in the Senate.
Why is this important?
The Democrats have gone back to their old play book and are trying to woo at least one GOP Senator to switch parties, much as jumping Jim Jeffords did in the United States Senate back in 2001. Jeffords ran as a Republican, but then he switched parties. His move gave the Senate back to the Democrats.
At least one Republican is rumored to be considering such a switch. If a Republican were to switch now, it would give the Democrats a 17-16 majority in the Senate. Any Republican considering this is certainly going to wait until after next week’s Democratic recalls, since a win by either challenger would make such a switch moot.
The two challengers in next week’s election are Jonathan Steitz and Kim Simac. Steitz is a great candidate who has run a great campaign. His website is Steitzforsenate.com. The real problem Steitz has is getting the word out about him. He is in the Milwaukee media market and that makes any media for him very expensive. Kim Simac is the other challenger. She helped organize the Tea Party movement in Wisconsin and spearheaded the recall effort in her district. Her website is Kimsimacforstatesenate.com.
Both of these contenders will need your help. If you can contribute in the last days to help them get their message out in the media, that would be huge. Also, there are other groups, such as the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama that are jumping in to help. There will be phone banking to help get the vote out. More details on that will follow. Even if you are not in Wisconsin, you can help.
This vote should have been a referendum on the Wisconsin Miracle. When a governor and a legislature take a state from a $3 billion deficit to a surplus in a matter of months and no tax increases are involved, this fact should have been shouted from every rooftop in America. When you go from a state that is loosing jobs at a record pace to being the state that in June created over half the new jobs created in America, this is a message that needs to get out. When you are able in just a few months to change laws that allow school districts to save millions of dollars, not lay off teachers and not raise property taxes, this is good news.
Wisconsin should have been a referendum on a successful Republican administration. This should have been a referendum on how well conservatism works. Instead, the GOP leadership let the other side define the election.
For Scott Walker, this election was a referendum about his future too. Walker could have broken the back of efforts to recall him next January. Instead of supporting his work and those who would help him, he went to Florida.
Walker has seen these protesters up close and personal. They disrupted the opening of the State Fair a few days ago.http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20110804-protest-governor-scott-wa.... Instead of doing something like having his own people there to counter the protesters, he just stood there like a punching bag.
Walker has been an amazing governor. He has accomplished more in just a few months than most governors accomplish in two terms. But there are two parts to being a governor. One is governing and the other is campaigning. Walker’s instincts for campaigning seem to be sadly lacking.
One thing we learned long ago, you do not play nice with the far left. When they try to shout you down, you figure out a way to shout louder. Those on the left are simply adult versions of 5th grade school bullies, just with less class. Everyone knows with a bully, you either give them what they want and they will continue to harass you or you stand up to them and they back down.
Neither Scott Walker nor the GOP has recognized this. When the left attacks, you do not back down. When the left attacks you do not try to make nice. When the left attacks you do not try to be their friend because they hate you.
You stand up and you fight.
Scott Walker and the Republicans in Wisconsin dodged one bullet yesterday, but this is a lesson they had better learn quickly or next January we will be writing Scott Walker’s political obituary.
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Tags: left, radical, recall, scott, union, walker, wisconsin
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on -
I began looking for links about the upcoming Dem recalls about an hour ago. Strangely (or not so strangely) I find no articles centered on the subject of the upcoming Dem recalls! Surely that's not a subject that the press would play down.
Anybody have a link to an article on that subject?
A Tea Party and/or Republican push to win those seats is important. It's additional effort, but now is not a time to rest on one's laurels. Sure would have been nice to have 3 or 5 contested Dem seats.
A win is a win. But an increased majority would have sent an even bigger message!
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Permalink Reply by John S on -
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Try www.wisgop.org. That's the Republican Party's website in Wisconsin. They should be able to tell you whatever you want to know. Hope that helpd.
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Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on
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Thanks John. Even they seem not focused on the Dem seats. NPR notes "A third Democrat survived a recall attempt last month" A million references, and nothing boils up. Donation links are here. And you can find a hit piece at the HufPost of course, but little supportive about Jonathan Steitz and Kim Simac.
Tea Party Nation looks like about as good as it gets as an info source.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Zepik on -
Vern, look at it this way, if the word's not put out into the mouth-breathing liberal media, then the Dem's are not going to turn out in the "droves" that they want and should give the conservatives an easier chance of defeating these traitorous cowards.
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Permalink Reply by M.D. Wood on -
Here's an idea, call all of your local television stations, talk radio, and newspapers to inquire about the Wisconsin Democrats being recalled next week.
Call or email Fox News, ABC, CBS, and NBC and ask about it. Call or email the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Wallstreet Journal.
The point is to make certain they know WE ARE WATCHING, and WE WANT TO KNOW.
By shear number of inquiries we could force them to address the subject. Don't give them the opportunity to ignore the issue or blow it off. If they refuse to address the Democrat Recall issue after so many inquiries, then the story becomes their refusal to inform the public on an issue which the public wants information. Then we can inquire (loudly) about that!
Afterall their stated noble mission (at least the one they hide behind) is To Inform The Public/The Public's Right To Know.
There are many relatively easy ways to affect the change we seek. We have some power to level the playing field... but bitching and then doing nothing isn't one of them.
ps... thank you Judson for walking the walk up in Wisconsin, and thank you for coordinating with FreedomWorks, Patriot Action Network, and Tea Party Express.
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Permalink Reply by MUG on
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Freedom is the intended consequence of conservatism. Bondage is the intended consequence of liberalism.
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Permalink Reply by John S on
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I put money and time on the phone bank into this campaign so today I AM celebrating. I know very well that it isn't over so I will have more skin in the game for the upcoming Dem recalls. Today I feel good even though I was up late last night waiting for Darling's win to be obvious.
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Permalink Reply by Ann on
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Good for you, John S! I went to my first City Council meeting last week! Wow! I found my new job as watchdog of the City Council members! I am going to apply to get something that they passed on the ballot so that the local people can vote on it . What fun ahead!!!
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Permalink Reply by Lois K. Knoffer on
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John S. I was at our local Patriot's Ink. meeting last nite and couldn't wait to get home to hear about
the WI results. I fell asleep waiting, but woke up this a.m. to "almost" good news! Thank you,
thank you for all your efforts.
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Permalink Reply by Cathy on -
Amen! What a disaster it would have been if the Republicans had lost. It is amazing how much money the Democrats spent on these recall elections. This is a real victory, and hopefully a shadow of things to come. I think all of the Senators who fled the state to avoid voting should be recalled, but at least this is a step in the right direction. I hope and pray that the two recalls next week are successful and the Republicans gain a wider margin in the Senate next week. I hope this is an encouragement to the good guys and a wake-up call to the evil union bosses who want to run our country,
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Permalink Reply by 74jeepman on
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The old military saying is "when you get em down, you better kick their guts out", otherwise they will come back and shoot you in the back.
Walker could learn something from this saying!
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Permalink Reply by Ann on
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Are you politically active, Jeepman? You have critical words for Walker who is doing the best he can, what are you doing to help our country????? Keeping an eye your local Government or anything like That?
You need to start doing everything that you can to save our country instead of just critisizing the brave people that are sticking their neck way out and doing the best they can.
Now you do the same! Dont just sit back in your chair and complain about others, Do something!!!!!!!
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