[C. Edmund Wright]

do you know how irrelevant and brain dead that question is? Gee wiz dude, what, 50-60 years ago? Different world now.

[Lazamataz]

Isn’t that a touch harsh?

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee wiz dude, what, 50-60 years ago? Different world now.

Agreed. But having just lived in Wisconsin, I make the case can be made that it is going to be a different world again.

I laughed reading the articles claiming the Republicans would have a 100 year majority in the House. I also laugh at articles claiming there is a blue wall for presidential elections, as the same people were writing about the natural Republican advantage in the electoral college a few years ago.

No, this is not the Wisconsin of Joe McCarthy, and the Wisconsin flavor of politics tends to be more pragmatist. Even conservatives found things to like in Dem William Proxmire. Paul Ryan and Ron Johnson may have a little too much Chamber of Commerce in their blood for our liking, but are still miles ahead of the northeastern version of same. Tammy Johnson was unchallenged to portray herself as being a mild, reasonable deviant, which is how she got in. Scott Walker has goaded the left into exposing themselves Baldwin cleverly avoided the fray, and Tommy Thompson was running 1994's campaign and wouldn't force her hand.

New Hampshire's arch-conersvatives are in more recent memory than Wisconsin's, but New Hampshire is far more gone. Is Cong. Sensenbrenner enough of a true conservative Wisconsinite, if you need a current example?