Pax vobiscum et spiritu tuo!
After a brief sanity break, returned to the convention floor south of Wausau to witness a miraculous sight: 500 Republicans shaking each others’ hands! Like in church!
Doubt that this apparition qualifies as a miracle because we cannot attest whether election-denying Cultists shook hands with establishment Loyalists or whether Turning Point USA operatives clasped palms with each other. Not wishing to miss out on Kumbaya, however performative, this Dane County delegate grabbed the paw of the nearest upright being and forgave him his sins. (Did he thank me? NO!)
Time will tell (as it often does) whether Republicans will coalesce into One Big Beautiful party or continue their schismatic squabbling.
We can report that chairman Brian Schimming remains as the head party poobah but only after Cultistas in the 8th Congressional District, casting their first stones, failed to martyr Kelly Ruh, treasurer of the state party. Do not know what her apostasy might have been — perhaps an inadvertent kind word for Paul Ryan? Might be nothing more than, as a member of the executive board, she was “The Establishment.”
Had she fallen to their ambitious pogrom, Cultists would have purged their way up to the hardest-working man in show biz, Chairman Schimming. Our friend gave the best speech of the convention — and that includes Tommy Thompson (who could be heard, unamplified, all the way to Stevens Point).
Purity is for losers
Schimming warned that Republicans will continue to lose if they keep imposing purity tests. Observed that Ron Johnson in 2022 got 70,000 of the same voters who elected Tony Evers, the Democrat(ic) governor.
When it was the senator’s turn, RoJo observed, “In my 15 years in politics, I have never seen so much squabbling.”
“We have to figure out how to win without Trump on the ballot.” — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson
The senator noted that the winning Democrat-backed candidate for supreme court took 78% of Kamala Harris’ numbers while Republican-backed Brad Schimel captured only 61% of Trump’s presidential vote — marking the third straight statewide defeat of a MAGA-backed candidate after Eric Hovde last year and Tim Michels in 2022.
Johnson argued that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would blow the budget deficit into Pluto’s orbit. (Random observation: As seen from the cheap seats, the man looks like a more kindly Lee Marvin.) RoJo got a standing ovation. Cultists appeared not to realize that the senator was fighting Trump on this issue. (Independence! A virtue of six-year senate terms and the absence of term limits. RoJo is in his third.)
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Senator Johnson came out of the Tea Party movement. Saturday in Rothschild WI he declared, “The Republican Party of Wisconsin is not The Establishment.” That which MAGA Cultists hate or don’t understand, they call “The Establishment.” Given their conspiratorial bent, they blame it for everything from the failure to produce Epstein Island’s flight manifest to firing Mike Gableman.
Now for the man who wasn’t there. The Republican most responsible for majorities in both houses of the state legislature (maybe next to Schimming): Robin Vos! Because too many Republicans blame the Speaker of the WI Assembly for not overturning the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost. We would call these too many Republicans “RINOs” except that we’re infused with the spirit of Rothschild.
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LOL!! IF YOU BELIEVE BIDEN GOT 81 MILLION LEGITIMATE VOTES YOU HAVE AN IQ OF A TURD!! END OF STORY!!!
One clue how to detect stupidity? It’s written IN ALL CAPS! Second clue: It concludes with “End of Story.”
Because Cheezewizz told him so.
I believe in miracles, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, leprechauns, unicorns, Big Foot, the Loch Ness monster, that ancient aliens have been using the Bermuda Triangle as an undersea base for centuries and that the Republican Party will one day be reborn from the ashes, like the fabulous Phoenix bird of Native American lore. (It exists in a parallel universe).
Well, you asked.
And no, I did not drink Bloody Marys for breakfast.
Damn. This mid-size dragon just appeared in my living room, really passed that I did not include him on the list. And I don’t have fire insurance. So OK, I believe. 🐉 Happy, dear?
Speaking of rebirth, Kamala is making noises about running for governor of California. Be still my heart.