Tag: RITOs

  • Taking the cure (or curse?) at Mar-a-Lago

    The (mixed] blessing! Is Mar-a-Lago the Santiago de Compostela of Republicans? Make the journey, fondle the bones, get the blessing? Returning from a pilgrimage to that principality, Tommy Thompson tells the Werkes that the former President anointed him as the only Republican who can beat Tony Evers this November. Duh! That’s like betting the Harlem…

  • Would Donald Trump accept Joe Manchin?

    Would the senator rather switch AND fight? Question of the day for the Werkes advisory (and unpaid) peanut gallery: should Joe Manchin switch parties? Come over to the dark side? Join the Republican party? Wouldn’t be the first. The last U.S. Senator to do so was Arlen Specter in 2009; he turned Democrat. Here in Wisconsin,…

  • Taking the Republican purity test

     RITOs are a RIOT! Wherever Republicans gather, it is striking that a goodly number of them think there are too many people in the room. They would like to see more empty chairs. They want to cull the herd before the next round of elections. They want to PURGE the RINOs — what they call…