Scott Walker Recall Splintering?

[applecorped]

http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/21/why-the-coalition-trying-to-recall-scott-walker-is-splintering/

"As a result, the campaign to recall Walker is sputtering, and the governor has pulled ahead in the polls with a little over two weeks to go until the June 5 election. “There’s a lot of despair, a lot of anger,” says Chris Reeder, 41, an activist who helps lead the Solidarity Sing Along. “The polls are very scary.” To begin with, recall proponents could have used a consensus candidate to pit against the incumbent. Tom Barrett, the Milwaukee mayor who will square off against Walker on June 5, was defeated by the governor in 2010 and advocated for some of the same changes to union benefits (including increasing the amount most public employees contribute to their pension and health care costs) as the governor. Barrett’s record of tangling with unions led labor to squander several million dollars on Dane County executive Kathleen Falk, a liberal primary challenger whom Barrett clobbered by nearly 20 points."

 

[Beerina]

I recall a "Life in Hell" where the little rabbit is writing in his diary how dumb the girls at school were because they all kept "nominating their best friends", thus splintering the girls' votes, while all the boys nominated just one boy, and voted for him, seizing the power.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I'm in Madison now, and you wouldn't even know the election was just around the corner.

 

[Galileo]

In Middleton, Walker will kick the living *** out of Barrett.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

In Middleton, Walker will kick the living *** out of Barrett.

Like Romney is doing to Ron Paul in the republican primary.

 

[Brainster]

In Middleton, Walker will kick the living *** out of Barrett.

Wait a minute! Kevin's running?

 

[theprestige]

http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/21/why-the-coalition-trying-to-recall-scott-walker-is-splintering/

“There’s a lot of despair, a lot of anger,” says Chris Reeder, 41, an activist who helps lead the Solidarity Sing Along.

I think I found at least part of the problem...

 

[jj]

So, explain why your highlighted words mean anything beyond an attempt to link this recall to McCarthyist fearmongering.

 

[AlBell]

So, explain why your highlighted words mean anything beyond an attempt to link this recall to McCarthyist fearmongering.

I don't see any attempt over pointing out the quite laughable acts protestors are employing.

 

[Brainster]

Well, the recall has officially fizzled. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the DNC says that failure of the recall will have no effect on the Democrats nationally:

“It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin. It’s an election that I think is important nationally because Scott Walker is an example of how extreme the tea party has been when it comes to the policies that they have pushed the Republicans to adopt,” Wasserman Schultz said. “But I think it’ll be, at the end of the day, a Wisconsin-based election, and like I said, across the rest of the country and including in Wisconsin, President Obama is ahead.”

Whistling past the graveyard. Meanwhile Politico tries to soften the blow by pointing out that the Democrats might win some of the other recall elections in Wisconsin:

With both sides pouring millions of dollars into the Scott Walker recall campaign and the national focus firmly affixed on the Wisconsin GOP governor’s fate, it’s easy to overlook the consolation prize on June 5: the state Senate.

 

[Sam.I.Am]

I can see the Democrats being a bit worried about these results if the recall fails. After all, a Republican took Ted Kennedy's seat just before the Republicans took the house in 2010. It may be a harbinger of things to come and they (Democrats) have put a lot of time, money and effort into getting this recall election going in the first place.

 

[AlBell]

It appears union-busting is full go in every state, and we can only hope federally too.

 

[WildCat]

It appears union-busting is full go in every state, and we can only hope federally too.

Federal employees, even unionized ones, don't have collective bargaiing rights for pay and benefits, with a few exceptions.

 

[dc1971]

It appears union-busting is full go in every state, and we can only hope federally too.

Yeah! That would mean happy days are here again for you, eh Al?

 

[dc1971]

Ahhhhhh (relaxing my joints), conservatives and their rhetoric are making me fuzzier and warmer with every word they speak!

I think I should put cucumbers over my eyes now!

 

[WildCat]

Yeah! That would mean happy days are here again for you, eh Al?

Ahhhhhh (relaxing my joints), conservatives and their rhetoric are making me fuzzier and warmer with every word they speak!

I think I should put cucumbers over my eyes now!

Are these 2 posts examples of "real proper discourse" dc1971?

The next time you make an actual contribution to a thread will be your first.

 

[MaGZ]

I saw Ed Schultz on MSNBC last night begging Obama to come to the state and save the recall.

 

[BenBurch]

Calculus, according to friends who help make these decisions, is that it would cost so much to win (and it could have been won) that it would hurt the Senate effort.

I agree.

Wisconsin isn't a place where there is much likelihood of congressional seats being won as polarized as it is, so no benefit if the Democrats win.

The benefits if they lose are large and national.

You Republicans would be wise to THROW this one, but you never can resist the tiny victory that will lose you the war.

 

[Dumb All Over]

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know what the current polls and predictions are for the WI Senate recall races?

 

[Howie Felterbush]

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know what the current polls and predictions are for the WI Senate recall races?

Well, it used to be the single most important thing in the entire universe, but now that Walker seems to have it won, it's not really that important.