Souls are being searched today!
Wasn’t even close, was it! Brad Schimel, hero of American youth, lost 55.0% to 45.0%, to a liberal Dane County judge, Susan Crawford! Ten percentage points is a landslide on any tote board. This pig has no lipstick. Ben Wikler and Rachel Maddow are popping corks.
Anyone still think more Musk would have helped? More Trump? Wisconsin may be less purple than once thought. The Werkes, this morning after, revisits its theory that Donald Trump won our beloved state twice because he was fortunate in his opponents — in 2016 over the unlikeable-enough Hildabeast and in 2024 over the wreckage of senile old Joe and his last-minute stand-in, Cacklin’ Kamala. Trump has a way of fouling his own nest.
Once again, Dane County poured on the coals on behalf of the progressive candidate. Crawford took an overwhelming 81.7% of a very heavy vote for a Spring election — 69.6% of all those eligible voted in Wisconsin’s second-most populous county. That beats all to hell its 62.3% turnout for (spell it with us) Protasiewicz over Dan Kelly two years ago. Schimel’s pitiful 18.3% of Dane County’s vote 04-01-25 is only a loose-change improvement over Kelly’s anemic 18.0% showing.
Crawford even won Brown County, with 51.6%, just five months after Trump won with 53.0%. (Don’t they listen to Brett Favre?) She won Kenosha County with 52.7% after Trump took 52.4%. In Dane County, Schimel did five points worse than Trump!
However you slice and dice, the WI Supreme Court is liberal 4 to 3 for the next three years, at least. The courts — all courts — have become more partisan. Rue if you want, it’s a fact of life: everything is partisan today. Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite are no longer in the building.
When Tommy Thompson in 1998 first appointed Dave Prosser to the high court, 77 of the 132 state legislators — Democrat and Republican — supported the appointment, describing Prosser as, “learned, thoughtful, and fiercely defensive of our system of law.”
Let’s play the Blame Game!
Democrats conjured an identifiable villain — a multi-billionaire running with chain saws to cut grandma’s entitlements. Republicans needed a Willie Horton, a welfare mother, or a hairy guy on the girls’ swim team. (Speaking of Woke, Jill Underly defeated reformer Brittany Kinser by a somewhat closer 52.9% to 47.1%. Kinser got caught in the Crawford undertow.)
Blaska’s Bottom Line: We prefer to think of Tuesday, April 1, 2025 (a day that will live … in INFAMY!) as a wake-up call, not a death knell. Next time, maybe run a woman. (We cast our lonely eyes to you, Becky Kleefisch, for governor next year.) Hellz bellz, even a moderate. Paul Ryan, anyone?
We do not want to hear at Stately Blaska Manor that Brad Schimel was a bad candidate. Tim Michels in 2022 was a bad candidate. Just Call Me Brad bore an impressive resumé, gave a great stump speech, had the right issues, worked his tail off, generated enthusiasm. Each candidate had billionaire funding but none were more high-profile than Musk. (We said, “Pls. stay away …“)
The Republican party went all in; they (we) knew the stakes.
29 responses to “Trump/Musk’s chainsaw had no bite”
Every cloud has a silver lining. Thanks to Tuesday’s election, several Wisconsinites (including yours truly) are $100 richer, and two are a million $ richer. Talk about spreading the wealth. If only all elections had this sort of incentive.
Is “our” brand tainted? Yes, it is.
With a relatively healthy statewide turnout for a spring contest, voters elect a Madison establishment jurist to the state supreme court and re-elect that worse-than-useless educrat over at DPI. Yet the same voters do this while passing (by a massive landslide) a voter I.D. constitutional amendment. This ballot measure was put forward along party lines – but (here’s the important part) with relatively little fanfare – by an unpopular gerrymandered Republican majority in the Assembly. Lucky for them, all the attention and left-wing fearmongering was focused on Brad Schimel, with Elon Musk playing the part of right-wing kiss of death.
All this in a context where Republican candidates have had a very hard time winning statewide elections for about a decade now, unless their name was Trump or Johnson, whose careers have been made possible by a string of Democratic candidates who prove the GOP has no exclusive claim to the title “Party of Stupid”.
What else is there to conclude? Bipolar disorder on a mass scale?
Gee. Too bad the Moms for Liberty candidate wasn’t elected to the state school marm job. Them’s the breaks.
As good a candidate as Schimel was, I never had much hope for him. Democrats and their big media cheerleaders saw in November that the sh!t-on-Trump tactic was past its shelf life and had to find another target. Musk has been an easy one lately, but that too will run its course.
Kinser’s loss is the more troubling one. That Wisconsin voters are content with failing schools, plummeting educational standards, and pipelines to welfare and prison is disturbing.
Anonymous, I’m still waiting..
David, I don’t have your email address (only Max’s) and have kicked out of facebook, which is how I communicated with you before. Here is a link from the WaPo that you will appreciate. Maybe they should name the tortoise, Sarah?? https://wapo.st/42pVK3f
The fact that people read your trash shows just how many stupid people there still are in Wisconsin.
Thanks for reading.