It’s called the U.S. Senate!
It’s good to have a fall back position. A political parachute, if you will. Not naming any names but for members of that lost tribe of Republicans sitting out this year’s presidential contest, hope rests entirely on electing a Republican Senate. Anything to keep Laurence Tribe off the Supreme Court and keep Puerto Rico under heel as a glorified colony. Unlike Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, we cannot endorse Marxism!
Wisconsin has a strong Senate candidate in Eric Hovde but incumbent Tammy Baldwin on the campaign trail is a master of illusion who plays to win. (The Capital Times would call Tammy a “career politician” except that she is a Democrat.) Tammy conjured the Republican challenger as a surf city playboy before he could define himself. Twelve years ago, she managed to portray Tommy Thompson as a Washington board room sell out! Not even the Amazing Randi could do that kind of magic!
Fair or not (we’re talking politics here), Dan McLaughlin in National Review opines that Hovde “seems to be going nowhere in taking out Tammy Baldwin.” Hard to land a haymaker on someone who doesn’t seem to have ever taken a position on anything. (If only she had called herself a black Nazi on some porn site!) McLaughlin:
The picture for Republicans may not be hopeless, but it is grim. They should win back control of the Senate, because all they need is to gain West Virginia and Montana and lose no seats. West Virginia hasn’t even been polled … and Tim Sheehy has hit the magic 50 percent already in Montana — not a sure thing, but an optimistic one in a red state. ….
But only going from 49 to 51 seats would be a deeply disappointing. With open seats in Michigan and Arizona, a red-state Democrat incumbent in Ohio, and Democrats running in presidential battlegrounds in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Republicans should be competing to get to 57 seats, and realistically hoping for 53 or 54. That’s even leaving aside Maryland — where a strong Republican candidate is running an uphill race in a blue state.
Indeed, RealClear polling shows Republicans gaining only two seats and Baldwin up by 4.7 percentage points.
→ New York Times looks at Dane County’s Democrat(ic) party lean, 18% growth rate, and 89% voter participation rate.
Bring out the kids and the kids!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Whoever is doing the Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden TV ads has the magic formula. Both are roots-based Wisconsin as painted by Currier & Ives and Norman Rockwell. The former Navy Seal needed to smooth off his hard edges. Nothing works like kids — human and animal — while still making a point about dysfunction in Washington D.C. Poking his head back into the camera frame for the mandatory approval of the message is a touch of regular guy whimsey.
Blaska’s law of politics #29: If you can’t poke a little fun at yourself — someone will do it for you!
14 responses to “We RINOs have a fall back position!”
Yeah, Tammy is a career pol, who has never done anything significant. Even her peers see that, never having given her significant responsibility after decades providing a reliable vote. And does SHE even live in Wisconsin. Or is her home really the million dollar capitol hill town house she shares with her girlfriend? What a hypocrite.
“Are people smart enough to know that Eric Hovde does not hate old people and respects farm work?”
The ones who are are Righties…the ones who aren’t are easily herded, despicably clueless Lefties.
The gotch
Still wondering if any Democrat on the planet had a “Holy shit!” moment when Baldwin essentially advocated single motherhood.
“Still wondering if any Democrat on the planet had a ‘Holy shit!’ moment when Baldwin essentially advocated single motherhood.”
It’s common knowledge, with a veritable wealth of research supporting it, that: Single Parent Households Are One Of The GREATEST INDICATORS Of An IDIOT’S Future Poverty And Substandard Education.
Baldwin could easily seek cover behind despicable Lefty’s admonition that families (?) with two (2) mommies, (2) daddies, or Big Gubmint bein’ the other parent, is superior to a construct (Father/Mother) which has successfully survived-n-thrived for millennia.
The Gotch
Interesting. Since the GOP war on women’s health, and the laws they are changing I wonder just who is advocating single motherhood. Especially now that they are going after birth control. Being a single mother because you were raped just might make a woman dependent on “BIG GUBMINT”.The righties have taken this issue and turned it into a shit-show that they can’t control and change their tune every five minutes. Punishment for having an abortion? What would that be? Another Trump “concept”? Model it after Islamic law?
Your reference to Dane County’s impact on statewide elections deserves to be expanded into a post of its own. Clearly Democrats here have a long-term plan in mind, and it doesn’t require expertise in political strategy to figure out: make sure the population in Madison keeps exploding (who cares that it’s rapidly destroying the quality of life here); the vast majority of the folks moving here are quite comfortable with the prevailing left-wing ideology and will ensure that Democrat turnout stays right around 90%. Unless Republican can figure out how to boost red-county turnout to match or exceed that of Dane County, Madison liberals will eventually dictate the outcome of every future statewide election. And that should make us all quake in horror.
This is why Dane County DA’s plea bargain felonies down. Can’t hold Rufus back from being able to vote. You’d lose too many blue votes. Harris is worried she’s losing AA voters in key states. She can’t keep them down trodden in guilt anymore.
What? All this time I thought people moved here because of the bike paths and the croissants.
Now it comes out that Hovde is in bed with a scandal ridden Mexican bank. 26.2 million in currency conversion called “repatriation” Fly pesos in convert to dollars for a fee of course. Claims money is from the tourist industry; (that’s what they are calling it these days.) This bank(?) has a history of doing business with foreign governments as their agent for flipping money. Well; it must be better than being a lazy farmer or a black nazi.
Dane County Republican Party is a joke. 82% of the vote in Dane County went to the baby killer SC justice. Their leader is some midget sideshow freak. They only exist to collect checks from whatever blood they can squeeze out of their shrinking base. Name 1 conservative besides Wegman holding office in Dane County. RNC in Dane County is just like a French Army rifle. Never fired and dropped twice. They carry white hankies to wipe their fake tears and then stick them up the flag post.
Truth…stranger than fiction…THAT’LL leave a mark!
The Gotch
Harris had over 10,000 people tonight. No one left early; no empty seats. Took a long time for all 21,000 people to exit the building. Driving was a mess with all 41,000 folks on the road. Campaign said they issued 56,000 tickets to attend her rally. The largest crowd in American history. 86,000 attended with another 68,000 standing outside.
The Coliseum will be closed for 10 days as they need to get the cat piss smell removed from the building.
A Democrat presidential nominee sells out a relatively small venue in the most left-leaning county in the state? That’s not news. That’s what’s supposed to happen.