Category: Governor’s race
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Democrats suffer progressive derangement syndrome
How much progressivism is too much? We’ve always said Trump Derangement System works both ways. Trump is permitted to alienate otherwise persuadable voters because MAGA loyalists, suffering from reverse TDS, won’t call him to account. Did Senate Democrats threaten the President with reprisals if he backed the scandal-plagued Ken Paxton, who could well lose Texas?…
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All 9 Dem governor candidates are Hong lite
They just don’t curse as much. Despite the best efforts of John Nichols to mainstream and Main Street his fellow/sister socialist Francesca Hong, voters in rural Lafayette County — “about as far as you can get from the urban centers and college campuses” — are not fretting over “the fate of Palestinians in Gaza,” as…
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But not like school girls
Notes from the WI Republican convention. If we had to summarize the mood coming out of the state Republican convention at the Kalahari Resorts last weekend (we must! we must!) in one word it would be: giddy! Thank the luck of the draw. Donald Trump would never have been President had it not been for…
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Reach out and touch someone
… who might not otherwise vote Republican! (The Head Groundskeeper broke into two blogges what we posted Sunday because the original was too long. But we added some stuff so it’s still too long. We can do that, you know.) Seeing Tommy Thompson is always a treat. Remember the governor asking us on our first…
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Tom Tiffany says ‘You betcha’
… that WI doesn’t want to become Minnesota! After the opening prayer, pledge of allegiance, and Star Spangled Banner sung at Spinal Tap’s volume 11, the Wisconsin Republican convention was ready to launch Saturday 5-16-26 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. (Would love to hear someone like Tom Waits or Leon Redbone perform the…