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ELECTION THOUGHTS

By Charlie Sykes

Savvy listener emails:

(1) Bad night - again - for Jim Doyle.  0-2 with his handpicked candidates, Taylor and Butler.  And his Supreme Court losing streak continues.  Team Doyle is VERY good at electing Jim Doyle.  They have an abysmal record with other candidates they support.

(2) Look out, because the nannies, lefties, and goo-goos are coming after your free speech rights and coming after them hard.  Gableman's victory will be painted as the result of corrupting third party ads (despite the fact that pro-Butler third parties likely outspent Gableman) and there will be an incredible Democrat and media fueled push to "rein in these third parties."   Funny how money in politics and third party spending is always a crisis when conservatives win but not liberals.  Gableman is the product of big money buying the election.  Obama setting new fundraising records every day is evidence of an amazing grassroots movement in America.  Let's call these folks complaints we will inevitably hear today about money in campaigns and 3rd party spending exactly what they really are:  Sore loser rhetoric.  And insulting sore loser rhetoric at that, because it assumes the electorate is too stupid to make their own decisions and are led around like sheep by TV ads.

(3) Shame on conservatives from letting 2006 hangover result in putting up such a completely lame slate of candidates.  Gleisner-Neubauer, (and even Gableman) were embarrassing choices to have on the ballot, and were the result of Republicans moping around buying into the "death of the party" woe is me message the MSM has been spinning.  

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 9:24 PM ijeff wrote ...

I'll put Thompson's coat tails up against Doyle's any day! Thompson never lost a Supreme Court appointee. That is a huge loss. Doyle seems to not only be lacking coat tails, but he might want to check for the entire coat!

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 6:55 PM Mark wrote ...

At least Gableman will be interpreting the law, not making it up from the bench ala Loophole.

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 2:26 PM J. Gravelle wrote ...

It wasn't all good news yesterday. My neighbors on the other side of New Berlin returned Bill "Tax 'Em Some" Moore to office despite your efforts to alert us that he was (and IS) a raving Marxist... -jjg

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 12:44 PM Eddie wrote ...

1) Thompson never had coat tails either. Such short memories. 2) For all you "strict constructionists" and "conservative" and "non-activist" court folks out there, point to the line in the Constitution that says speech = money, or the line saying that corporations are "people" entitled to free speech. Hmmmmm. 3) So Gableman was admittedly an embarrassing candidate? I'm glad that guy wil be interpreting law for the next decade.

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 12:30 PM Marcia / Appleton wrote ...

I went to bed last night (early) lamenting the fact that Butler would probably win, and complaining to my husband about how people just don't get how important this supreme court justice election was. I was very pleasantly surprised this morning that those who managed to get to the polls got it right! The horrible thing to me is how few people actually care and don't even bother educating themselves and voting. What a disgrace.

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 11:33 AM Hank wrote ...

DTMB, you must be talking about that horribly misleading WEAC ad that was run against Gableman, right?

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 10:26 AM Don't Tase Me, Bob wrote ...

Any thoughts on the death of Truth or Civility in elections. Once all elections have been rolled in the gutter then the next logical step will be to just have a few "enlightened" folks decide who should rule. Capital "D" Democracy took a swift kick in the slats yesterday and Wisconsin is worse for the way the campaigns were run.

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 10:21 AM Mike (Wauwatosa) wrote ...

The tide is turning. Many liberals that I know voted WALKER, GABLEMAN & DIDIER! Finally some common sense!

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 9:54 AM Mary wrote ...

The best person won for County Executive-I blame Scott Walker!

Wednesday, Apr 2 at 9:38 AM Hank wrote ...

Maybe liberals can blame the loophole louie loss on the fact that liberal voters couldn't tell who the liberal was in the race. The pro- butler ads tried to portray him as a conservative, and the anti-Gableman ads tried to paint him as someone who was soft on crime, which would only attract liberal voters to him. I guess the left really can blame 'deceptive ads' for the downfall of loophole louie.

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