Scott Walker, and America – real America – win.
It’s not even close. As this is written, it’s 58-42, with 52% reporting.
It brought things to mind:
Lament!
And the Democrats, with their plutocrat supporters and smug union leader fatcat commissars gathering around them, have to know that this is not a good omen for the fall.
Because this was a victory for regular private sector working people – the backbone of this economy.
This was a victory for the Tea Party – which has moved from carrying signs to working at the grass roots and winning elections.
This was a victory for conservatism.
The Democrats would have you believe this was a victory for money. Of course, money always wins elections; that’s why Michael Huffington and John Corzine are sitting in office today.
No. This was a victory for the people; for real America.
And we’re not done.
At 11:45 EST it’s 54%-45% with about 60k votes still to come in from Milwaukee county. Let’s say the final proportion is 53%-46%. That’s a greater margin than Obama won over McCain. If you believe the libs, that election featured a young, charismatic, political genius over a washed up old white guy with personality issues and a “snowbilly” chick.
Sucks to be you, libs. Maybe you’ll realize now that you really aren’t very popular. From Obamacare, to higher taxes, to amnesty for illegals, to same sex marriage, you fail.
Maybe you should move to France?
They know they’re not popular amongst regular folk. That’s why they resort to the underhanded tactics they do. If you can’t win, cheat. It’s been the MO in MN the last 2 elections.
Oh, BTW…
GREAT POST, MITCH!
Turnout here seemed high, and I actually had 3 people ask me to witness their absentee voter ballot. It’s been an interesting time.
If you believe the libs, that election featured a young, charismatic, political genius over a washed up old white guy with personality issues and a “snowbilly” chick.
Walker and Kleefisch would have been flattered by that description compared to how the Democrats here were talking about them.
The Democrats here had much the same problems as Obama: they couldn’t run on their record, so all they could do was attack and vilify their opponent. So they were relentlessly nasty, ruthless, and quite simply repulsive. Obama should take the warning, but he’s got the same dilemma of a horrible record to run on.
Barrett and Mitchell were like two broken Tigers on fire this night, flickering the burning money of the unions to the wind. (Yes, that was necessary given the title of the post.)
Polk or St. Croix county, Nerdbert?
I have a little different idea as to why the Dems lost. The protests instead of rallying the base, showed normal Wisconsonites who the protesters were and what they supported.
Totally unrelated but I don’t know where to put this. Emily gets her gun is a blog out of Washington DC detailing the trials of people attempting to follow DC law regarding firearms.
In the story below she chronicles the warrant less Swat raid and IMO unlawful detention of an Iraq vet.
http://p.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/may/28/miller-swat-rampage-destroys-iraq-vets-home-over-g/
This should illustrate to our cowardly legislators; i.e. Zellers and Senjem, that union money doesn’t mean victory. Look at all of the money that they wasted! Needless to say, I have fired off stern, yet polite emails to every GOP legislator telling them to grow a pair, screw the unions – let them spend money, because their members are fed up; pass RTW and quit placating Mad Mark the DemocRATs! I also pointed out that rank and file UAW members in MICHIGAN of all places, are pushing their state to pass RTW!
The liberat miscreants that pushed these recalls, also wasted over $16M to hold these recalls. What better uses could that money have been used for? Hmmmm; maybe creating the jobs that the cry baby libs say aren’t there.
“And the Democrats, with their plutocrat supporters and smug union leader fatcat commissars gathering around them, have to know that this is not a good omen for the fall.”
What a collosal load of codswallop. This proves that the right can buy an election with out of state money and a lot of lying and election tampering – or did you just ignore that right wing voter suppression with the robo calls – AGAIN – to registered voters who had signed the recall petition, telling them they did not have to vote? Last round of elections when Republicans won it was by mass mailings and robo calls to absentee ballot voters, and to people being directed to the wrong polling places and to vote on the wrong days. This time the robo calls were traced to the Republican party by two separate reporters.
How is it that you can claim to support legitimate ‘pure’ elections again? Oh wait, you can’t – that is pure bullshit and hypocrisy. Lets throw in people being directed this time to the wrong polling places because of redistricting, and a shortage of ballots in some polling places, and lets not leave out that people who DID NOT REQUIRE ID TO VOTE IN THIS ELECTION were turned away from the polls if they did not produce that ID.
This is nothing to be proud of in Wisconsin from the right.
And before you get too excited, the exit polls were overwhelmingly in support of Obama for 2012. This was a case of lies, and a LOT of outside money.
Approximately 75% of that money for Walker came from outside sources, where Barrett had the reverse ratio. Righties had to outspend 25 to 1 for this, and the ads that were run did not do well when fact checked (they lied, a LOT) — so, seriously, can you call that a win? The right bought an election. You took the ‘buy’ road, not the ‘high’ road. Despite what the talking heads are saying, this was a major black eye for Walker and his policies and predicts nothing. No one knows what the next few months will bring, there are far too many variables in play for this to be significant.
In MN, your messed up MN GOP is too afraid of what it will find to do what a responsible organization would do – have a formal, thorough independent audit on the books. That as much as anything else is a red flag as to how rotten the right is at the core.
But on a lighter note, the Penigma effort at ending blog harassment is progressing well. You should pay attention to it Mitch, since the harasser is one of you followers, and he throws your name around a lot in some of the harassment content.
Enjoy the birthday watermellon, and wanted to thank you for having piqued my curiousity enough that I sought out Pen. We just celebrated our third year of blogging together. We may disagree about a lot in poliics, but about that you were correct – blogging is a lot of fun, and it does lead to meeting a whole lot of interesting people.
Hugs sweetie, (that was sincere, not snark) and enjoy your celebration while you can. The republicans have much lower approval ratings and much higher disapproval ratings than just about any other group, especially in Congress. You have had record LOW turnouts for your caucuses. What happened next door was a fluke, and a very expensive one.
And before you get too excited, the exit polls were overwhelmingly in support of Obama for 2012
These were, of course, the same exit polls that told us yesterday’s election was neck and neck. Enjoy the comfort of your delusions, Mrs. Teasdale.
Hey Penigma’s Chihuahua, your homework is past due!
And you would have us believe that the unions spent nothing here?
And where was your post condemning when now Senator Franken was holding fundraisers in Hollywood? …Kettle.
Bought the election? See yesterday’s post. Unions, national Democrats and Obama ducked this fiasco, saving their money for November.
Dirty tricks? See Berg’s Seventh Law. What, did nobody in Milwaukee get a cigarette to vote for Democrats this election? Pikers.
Luckily, the Obama Administration’s Justice Department is all finished looking for clues in Fast and Furious so they now have time to indict every Republican before the November ballot. True, all the charges will be dropped later, but damage control requires timing, not truth.
DG the best advertising the Walker campaign had was the actions of the protesters in Madistan. The teacher sick out, the falsified doctor notes, the damage to the Capital, the Fleebagging State Senators, the threats against public figures and ordinary citizens.
Money doesn’t control elections, it certainly helps, but, ultimately it is the people who show up to vote. You simply can’t say that the Democrats didn’t get their message out. They did over the past year or so. WI has been a bastion of liberal politics and the past two years have shown that the fortress is crumbling. If WI is in play for Romney this November, it’s over for Obama.
Ah, “right wing voter suppression with the robo calls – AGAIN – to registered voters who had signed the recall petition, telling them they did not have to vote”.
If Democrats in Wisconsin (or in general) are that stupid, should we trust them to vote in the first place?
Right, it’s the money. Oh, and the “voter turnout”, of course.
DG’s spew reminds me of a vampire in the movies demanding that you don’t pull up the window shade.
Oh, and has already been observed elsewhere, a 7-point edge for Obama in exit polling doesn’t look as good in a state where he won by 14-points in 2008.
Seeueentee is calling for a recount!
Hahahahaha.
She is as dumb as a box of rocks.
Feel free to spike the ball on PenisBlog. Rub it in.
Bwwwwaaaahahahaha!
Doggy doo, you are one pathetic loser, just like your fellow DemocRATs in WI.
Those cry babies got their asses handed to them, but the state had to spend in excess of $16M of state money, plus the millions that it cost to repair the damage to their state capitol and for lost productivity, to do it. That one is totally on you libidiots! There is no one else to blame for such blatant economic stupidity!
I wonder what better purposes that money might have been spent on? Maybe helping the homeless, retrain workers or maybe even create more jobs that you morons claim haven’t materialized under Walker. But keep smoking the left wing crack pipe, Doggy!
Did someone throw up in the middle of your comments section, Mitch? I was reading thoughtful, cogent analyses and then I ran into a blathering, wandering, pointless screed of bile and vindictive claptrap. I thought I had drifted into an alternative universe and then I realized what the problem was – you forgot to engage your Moron Filter.
DG, you missed the biggest reason the GOP won: there was a concerted effort by those of us who are Walker operatives to tell the Democrats to for (R) for “recall.” You can see just how well that worked!
those Robo-calls DG mentioned must have been incredibly effective – they kept 173,000 people away from the polls!
From factcheck.org:
http://factcheck.org/2008/11/advertising-money-mccain-vs-obama/
Terry: The facts you cite will undoubtedly “convert” DG. What we have to realize is preaching truth works only for those seeking truth.
Stand back…I’m gonna uncork a good one………..
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Whew. Anyone got a cigarette?
Wait, there’s more.
Did you get a load of Crying On CNN Guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwXa197uBU
Sweet, sweet moonbat tears…Bwaaahahahahahahaaaa!
That’s it. Democracy is dead. Because the democratic process worked. It’s all over. America as we know it is finished. Public employees will have to continue paying into their health care and pension funds. It’s a police state.
I’m never quite sure what liberals mean when they talk about “democracy”. Not majority rule — they oppose that principle with regularity. Not democracy in the sense of small-r republicanism, democrats are very much in favor of rule by unaccountable bureaucrats and judges. Wisconsin demonstrated that liberals have no respect for democracy as legislation enacted by elected representatives.
So what was that fellow crying about? Didn’t get what he wanted?
His self-esteem was hurt.
[voter-suppression]Hey Dog Gone! You don’t have to vote![/voter-suppression]
Wow, that was easy.
So sad (via Althouse) . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_7H3ycTFU&feature=player_embedded
at her blog DG had this to say about the election of Mark Dayton as Gov of MN:
“When it takes spending money at a ratio of 25 to 1 to win an election, it is not an election, it is an auction. When 3/4 of that 25 to 1 money is from a few large special interests with deep pockets from outside your state, who are expecting a payoff in return for that money, it is corrupt government, it is the take over of government by special interests for special interests ”
…..
“What it is not is government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
You could not have won if you did not have that money. You needed that money to promote your lies.”
Someone get a rolled newspaper, the dog has soiled the carpet, again.
tl;dr
Ron Radosh at pjmedia:
http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/06/06/how-the-left-spins-the-walker-victory/?singlepage=true
Radosh has written an excellent essay that explains quite clearly why the Left lost this one and why they are likely to use the next one as well. They (and public employee unions) represent a small and shrinking part of the electorate that constantly works to privilege itself at the expense of the average Joe.
Oh, yes and we had a classic illustration of liberat tolerance caught right on TV last night when one of Barrett’s drooling supporters, upset that he conceded, slapped him across the face! Another assault carried out in the name of liberalism. Oh the hypocrisy!
DG,
You remain, as always, a faithful gurgitator of the chanting points the left is paid to chant.
I’ll proceed to dismiss the parts of your screed that even deserve to be addressed:
What a collosal load of codswallop. This proves that the right can buy an election with out of state money
You DID get the bit about how
a) Walker out-fundraised IN Wisconsin by a 6-1 margin, too – right?
b) The “7-1 margin in spending” counted only campaign spending – not independent expenditures by unions and the like?
FACT CHECK!
And in any case, cry me a freaking river – the recall was THE LEFT’s IDEA! They knew that there were no spending limits on recalls – right? They are allegedly the smart ones – ya?
and a lot of lying and election tampering – or did you just ignore that right wing voter suppression with the robo calls – AGAIN – to registered voters who had signed the recall petition, telling them they did not have to vote?
As always with the left’s bleating about such things, I’ll wait for objective proof. The left ALWAYS throws these stories out there, trying to sway the narrative. They so very, very rarely turn out to be true. Shall I remind you of the legion of such stories you, yourself, have presented in this space, that have been shown to be…well, as you put it, “codswallop?”
I have a looooong list of them. But that’d be overkill at this point.
Onward.
Next:
How is it that you can claim to support legitimate ‘pure’ elections again? Oh wait, you can’t – that is pure bullshit and hypocrisy.
Says you.
Lets throw in people being directed this time to the wrong polling places because of redistricting, and a shortage of ballots in some polling places, and lets not leave out that people who DID NOT REQUIRE ID TO VOTE IN THIS ELECTION were turned away from the polls if they did not produce that ID.
This is nothing to be proud of in Wisconsin from the right.
So says the lefty chanting-point machine.
Whose statements I distrust then verify – and then, almost invariably, carry on distrusting. Because they ALWAYS lie. And you ALWAYS carry the lies, disingenuously, as if “lefty chanting point” equals fact.
It almost never fails.
Since you mentioned polls:
And before you get too excited, the exit polls were overwhelmingly in support of Obama for 2012.
Those were the same exit polls that showed the race “a coin toss” in the afternoon.
Take all the comfort you want in them. You might be as disappointed as you were, well, yesterday.
And even if they’re true, so what? Wisconsin is a “liberal” state. If Obama’s ahead, that’s dog bites man.
But “exit polls” are no more reliable than the “Minnesota Poll”, except as bellwethers of the lefty narrative.
And that’s something I DID, in fact, prove objectively.
Approximately 75% of that money for Walker came from outside sources, where Barrett had the reverse ratio.
SFW?
And since you’ve opted to wallow in the self-righteousness of imagined poverty: Does the fact that Mark Dayton’s 2010 victory for governor spent several times more than Tom Emmer, with the vast majority coming from out of state, much of it from left leaning plutocrats?
Please explain this bit of self-indulgent moralizing.
DG,
The more you write, the further from any factual thread you drift.
In MN, your messed up MN GOP is too afraid of what it will find to do what a responsible organization would do – have a formal, thorough independent audit on the books. That as much as anything else is a red flag as to how rotten the right is at the core.
Drifting far afield, here, don’t you think?
Wrong again, DG. A “full independent audit” would cost a lot of money the MNGOP doesn’t have – but you’d like that, wouldn’t you?
But here’s a question for you, Ms. “FACT CHECK”: Do you have the foggiest idea what the MNGOP DID do? Or who did it? Or how they came to the process?
I”m going to guess that you don’t – and that you don’t because your entire “knowledge” of the subject, you got from MNDFL chanting points.
I DO know who did the job, and what they did, because I was there. And your preconceptions – or, let’s be honest, the chanting points that are all the info you have – are wrong.
But on a lighter note, the Penigma effort at ending blog harassment is progressing well. You should pay attention to it Mitch, since the harasser is one of you followers, and he throws your name around a lot in some of the harassment content.
If it doesn’t involve me, legally, then I don’t much care. People make their own decisions. And that means everyone.
Hugs sweetie, (that was sincere, not snark) and enjoy your celebration while you can.
Well, thanks, and noted. But I’ll be celebrating in November. Bank on it.
The republicans have much lower approval ratings and much higher disapproval ratings than just about any other group, especially in Congress.
Be honest, here – ONLY in Congress. And not only are approval polls of dubious worth in predicting elections, they’re vastly worse at predicting results for entire legislative bodies. No poll of congressional approval that doesn’t measure approval of each individual Congressperson, as opposed to the whole body, is worth anything.
Everyone hates everyone else’s congressperson. Most people tolerate their own (I’m a big exception there).
You have had record LOW turnouts for your caucuses
Which has never, not once, been a reliable predictor of anything.
. What happened next door was a fluke, and a very expensive one.
Ever notice how every conservative victory is a “fluke” to you people?
The Wisconsin recall wasn’t really orchestrated by the unions; it was a classic ruse perpetrated by the evil Koch brothers who paid one million people to sign the recall petition (even resorting to using fake names to pad the list) in a subtle campaign to embarrass the unions on a national stage.