It is better to be lucky than good.
Donald Trump lucked out six years ago when he drew as an opponent the one-woman crime syndicate, Hillary Clinton. She just wasn’t likable enough. Four years later, Joe Biden was fortunate to run against Donald Trump, who insisted on picking fights that didn’t need fighting. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Biden could play rope-a-dope from his basement.
This election cycle, looks like Ron Johnson wins the political PowerBall by drawing Mandela Barnes as his lucky ticket. First, Tom Nelson pulls out, victim of a thin checkbook, followed by fortunate son Alex Lasry just two weeks before the August 9 primary election after spending a likely $15 million. Still hard to figure. Did Chuck Schumer make a phone call to Milwaukee urging a circling of wagons to conserve resources? Only Sarah Godlewski stands in Mandela’s way. For now.
A serial exploding cigar
Problem for Democrats is that Barnes presents a target-rich environment. Lied about his college degree. Tax delinquent. Fined for a campaign finance violation involving the neo-Marxist Working Family Party. Worse, he’s Defund the Cops. Sided with the knife-wielding criminal Jacob Blake, whom Kenosha police shot before he could abscond with the children of a woman from whom he had a restraining order. (Got all that?) “Barnes rips Kenosha district attorney.” Says communities are “over-policed.” (Chapter and verse here.) Lasry, on the other hand, offered a clean slate.
Former Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz rues Democrats’ capitulation to the Wokest candidate:
Sen. Johnson and his allies will have new material to work with against Barnes. His endorsements from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will hurt him in the general and contribute to a theme that he is too radical for Wisconsin. Then there are Barnes’ own words and actions. Expect to see an ill-advised photo of him holding an “Abolish ICE” T shirt in a commercial soon, and that’s just for starters. At this point, I think RoJo probably wins a third term.
Playing a cynical game
Democrats did this to themselves in Wisconsin. In other states, they’re spending millions to boost unelectable, MAGA-crazed candidates in Republican primaries.
Call him a RINO if you want, but Larry Hogan won as a Republican governor in that bluest of states, Maryland. Hogan’s preferred successor lost thanks to the Democratic Governors Association, which bought ads boosting an unelectable Republican to grease the skids for their Democrat. How unelectable? Gov. Hogan calls him a “QAnon whack job.”
“We have no chance of saving that governor seat.”
In Michigan, Democrats are pouring money into a primary challenger to Peter Meijer, a Republican who voted to impeach Trump. Erick-Woods Erickson comments: “The party that believes January 6th was the worst thing ever is pouring money into the race to help a man who thinks January 6th was one of the best things ever.” Could backfire. The Wall Street Journal remembers the 02-05-16 headline in New York magazine by the left-wing writer Jonathan Chait: “Why liberals should support a Trump Republican nomination.”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The saints are smiling on Republicans! Joe Manchin has reversed course and is signing on to Chuck Schumer’s bill costing “hundreds of billions of dollars” to fight climate change, subsidize electric cars, expand ObamaCare, and raise taxes on employers.
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
And Johnson just gave the middle finger to the PACT ACT and screwed the veterans. AGAIN!
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Unfortunately, the bill as written includes an unnecessary provision that opens the door for more reckless government spending, unrelated to the VA. I voted no on cloture tonight to insist on having the ability to amend the bill to correct this.” — Ron Johnson
Good for him!
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Then you should send the bill back. Make any changes and COMPRIMISE. Not just kill it on the spot. This; plus his abortion vote and the fake elector’s circus and breaking a promise to do only two terms is not going to help him. Maybe that traitor trump should do a rally for him.
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Nice catch PotR!
And kudos for showing the illiterate Blogge Idiot that it is eminently deserving of its sobriquet!
The Gotch
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Never forget, the Republican veterans in the Senate, like Joni Ernst and Tom Cotton, turned their backs on fellow veterans, some of whom will die because of their cruelty and moral cowardice. How despicable.
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And they all gathered for a fist bump after fu#$ing the vets. They really enjoy doing stuff like this. Despicable is too kind a word.
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Dear Piddler-on-the-Roof,
You’re a schmuck.
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“In the midst of 9.1% inflation, are Americans crying for more government spending?”
Short answer: No**
Long Answer: HELL NO**!!!
**Unless you’re a “hat-in-yer-hand gimmee gimmee more More MORE high quality/quantity free $#!t” despicable Lefty, that is!
The Gotch
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You want less spending? Gableman just cost us another 98,000 in a lawsuit. It’s doubled in time and is now well over a million with two lawsuits pending. This is BS, but Vos and Mikey are in our pockets now and will not leave.
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To say nothing about the poor bastards stuck with foxconn.
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Maybe the economy you’re so worried about will rebound after trump has his golf tournament sponsored by those murdering Saudis. I bet he gets a big check and then pays the taxes. Who am I kidding. He’ll cheat and lie his way out of paying anything. Then the “traitor-n-chief” has the nerve to post the President Shield on the course. But; you’re the kind of trumpie that will follow this piece of s@#t no matter what.
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The comically clueless, irrefutably illiterate, hopelessly half-witted Blogge Idiot has less than nothing to say, yet sees fit to use his taxpayer funded Hopeless Changey phone to prove just that?
Priceless!
The Gotch
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And what have you just said crotch? Nothing. Am I right? Do you want my phone number so you can give me your nonsense in person or are you just another gutless, no-name troll.
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richard lesiak wrote, “Do you want my phone number so you can give me your [opinion] in person…”
I’ll take you up on that offer or are you a gutless internet troll.
I’ll hold my breathe while I wait for the internet troll to figure out how to reply.
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I wrote, “I’ll hold my breathe…
HA!
Clearly there’s an unneeded “e” at the end of the word breath. Stupid migraine brain.
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The Gotch suspects the Blogge Idiot is merely doing what comes naturally for the career Lefty…GROOMING.
The Gotch
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Richard,
You stated the following about Ron Johnson in part: “This; plus his abortion vote”. It is well known that Ron Johnson has voted against abortion.
I look at abortion in this manner.
If you decide to abort, you have decided that the person inside you is not a person worthy of life. Or you have decided the the person inside you is not a person at all.
In the end, you either see yourself as an executioner or you are god.
I learned a long time ago not to see myself as god.
Nor did I ever want to be an executioner, especially an executioner of the innocent.
I never wanted to play God!
Man’s got to know his limitations!
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Abolish ice. Killing babies isn’t enough for Democrats. Now they want to drown fishermen!
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“It is better to be lucky than good.”
Any Wordle Addict (The Gotch being one) would emphatically agree.
The Gotch
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