Preparing for our blindfolds!
We’re holed up in a crevasse awaiting rescue after Tuesday’s non-partisan (Yeah! RIGHT!) election results. The few of us who vote conservative are lying low, tapping out Morse code with a spoon, looking to the skies for salvation, whether in the form of US Air Force HH-60W combat rescue helicopters or divine intercession. We’re in no position to choose.
Custer at Little Bighorn; the Arizona basketball team at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines; Biden at that presidential debate — April 7, 2026 was a debacle for our side. All we ask at this point, Madison progressives, is the occasional visit from Red Cross.
Conservatives, moderates, and clam diggers got good and skunked. We could see Chris Taylor coming like a B-2 Spirit bomber. Losing 40% to 60% is a bunker buster. Yes Maria Lazar got outspent — because potential donors weren’t willing to donate. When a far left, abortion-at-birth partisan can destroy a moderate middle-of-the-road candidate with a truly judicial temperament, Republicans are in big doo doo statewide.
Is the damage statewide? There are reports of conservative wipeouts in cities like Waukesha, River Falls, and Appleton.
Back home, we thought Madison’s disgust with out-of-control spending, poor test scores, and racial blame gaming would unseat the two perpetrators up for another term on the Madison school board. But no-oooo! Nicki Vander Meulen and Blair Mosner Feltham won handily with 57% and 62% of the vote respectively. Hellz bellz, we even lost Jeff Weigand, the lone conservative of 37 county supervisors. Out in farm country!
None of our challengers won, not even Nino Amato on Madison’s west side, nor Sean Burke by the airport, nor Steve Ratzlaff up in DeForest.
What are our President and Vice President doing campaigning for a foreign leader abroad? How would we react if Keir Starmer stumped for Gavin Newsom? (Read & Weep!)
Let’s play the blame game!
TRIGGER WARNING: This is where Blaska rubs raw some old wounds. The winners were endorsed by both newspapers, the Democrat(ic) party, the labor unions, and (in many cases) Progressive Dane. I.E., the UniParty! Many of the challengers for Dane County Board had the surreptitious help of county Republicans — even though few of them were actually Republicans. Just moderates. Surreptitious, given the whiff of sulphur attached to the party these days, but we give credit for trying. We refuse to blame the candidates themselves. Did YOU run for office?
Blaska is self-aware enough to acknowledge the possibility that his endorsements shaved another half percentage point off our favored candidates.
Other than this modest effort, where was the institutional support for candidates friendly to the taxpayer? When conservatives enjoyed majorities on the Dane County Board of Supervisors, Brian Schimming helped us win. We had a Sheriff Raemisch or Sheriff Hamlin to endorse our candidacies. Took our pictures with popular Republican governor Tommy Thompson, who actually won Dane County for his third term. Genial George Bush Sr. was President. The current President so crazies up the populace that they take to the streets dressed like Gong Show contestants. We can blame the voters but somehow that does not sound like a winning stratagem.
We’ll say it right here: Trump is not an asset to the conservative movement.
To compensate, we thought some of us dues-paying RINOs could make common cause with Tory Democrats. We had a certain former Madison mayor in mind. Democrats more likely to go Josh Shapiro and Ron Kind than A.O.C. and Francesca Hong. Form a center party. Share campaign experience, leverage print and on-line resources, convey a unified, common-sense message. Call it Sensible Dane as a rebuke and counter weight to Progressive Dane. (“We thought it was a good idea“) But no-ooo! Too much work! Not enough co-religionists! Somebody else first!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Sorry to “waste your time,” Bonnie.
What’s it like in Jefferson county?
Our own Waterloo?
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