Category: Ron Johnson
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The problem with Republicans …
… is its dues-paying members! Pogo, the philosophizing opossum in Walt Kelly’s classic comic strip, famously said, “We have met the problem and he is us.” In the same vein, the problem with our political parties today is its dues-paying members — always a tiny fraction of the voting public. That reality slapped us full…
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Republicans inch toward the middle
They’d like to win statewide again! Good to get out of town Saturday 06-17-23. Drove from Madison to La Crosse for the Wisconsin Republican Convention. Beautiful city of 55,000 amidst the bluffs guarding the Mississippi River. Convention center nestles against a late 19th Century downtown full of boutiques, boîtes, ice creameries, and eateries — quaint…
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Are Democrats getting smart about crime?
Have they learned from Lori Lightfoot? How else to explain Joe Biden turning his back on the progressive movement to decriminalize crime? The President is siding with Republicans who want to nullify the City of Washington’s attempt to dumb down criminal prosecution. Congress can do that because, ultimately, it controls the District of Columbia. The…
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Who will be the last Republican Baghdad Bob?
To excuse Florida Man’s toxicity? Fondly do we remember Baghdad Bob. He was the PR flack for Saddam Hussein who insisted that Iraq was turning back George W. Bush’s coalition forces even as his boss was burying himself in that upright bolt hole in the sand. When your job is to spin the truth, Baghdad…
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Republicans got to work Dane County in the local races
Can’t just flip on the switch for president and governor! The bloodied corpse of the 2022 mid-term election is laying on the stainless steel slab and Wisconsin Republicans, like those nationwide, are conducting an autopsy — when they aren’t engaged in backbiting and recriminations. Ron Johnson won re-election to a third six-year U.S. Senate term…
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We’re going to blame some of the people in this room
Like Vito Corleone at the Commission! Got to say it: Becky Kleefisch would have beaten Tony Evers. But she got snowed under in the Republican primary by Tim Michels’ millions and by Trump’s endorsement of Michels. As late as this summer Trump’s benediction moved mountains — but only among GOP hard-liners. That endorsement — it…