Posted on 07/11/2012 6:50:25 PM PDT by randita
Comments?
I really don’t think we need anymore homosexuals in the Senate.
I would disregard PPP polling outright. Saying that, however, I preferred Fitzgerald in the race. Thompson needs to be retiring, not embarking on a Senate career (and he should’ve run back in the ‘90s and refused to). Neumann seems too desperate to get back into office (he was barely able to hold his old House seat that Paul Ryan easily has in succeeding him) and he couldn’t take down the unpopular Feingold. Hovde might be an intriguing choice, and perhaps worth taking a chance on if he can defeat Thompson (hopefully he will be similar in style to Sen. Ron Johnson, another non-pol).
How many more tests must we endure?
A good Wisconsin Governor would FREE Wisconsin of the disease of the UNIONS...
Scott Walker is not doing that... he is afraid..
If Walker was courageous he try to institute legislation making Wisconsin a “RIGHT TO WORK STATE”..
He would become famous and set the stage for other States around the Great LAkes to do the same..
Until that happens nothing really HAS happened.. in Wisconsin..
I’ll agree.
Thompson isn’t serious about running. He just wants this seat for his legacy.
But he may win because of name recognition.
Hovde, the new kid on the block, stumbled out of the gate by giving a terrible speech at the state convention and addressing a group of well informed Republicans as though they needed a lesson in GOP 101.
He is handsome and engaging..and he is getting better at public speaking, though a little long in the tooth. Less is more, Eric.
He is spending a ton of his own money on ads and is everywhere!..definitely working harder than any of the others, especially Thompson.
Tommy is calling in favors from cronies but he hasn’t raised as much as Hovde is spending.
Fitzgerald, probably the best candidate, has no money.
Neumann, a fiscal conservative, isn’t going to win cuz conservatives have a long memory and he dissed Scott Walker badly when he ran against him for Governor.
I’m leaning Hovde but there is still something about him that bothers me. What is his previous record of working for GOP and conservative causes/candidates? Apparently NADA. But I’d rather see him take on Tammy Baldwin than the Rino former Gov. who should be retiring.
That’s what I thought.
Uh, unless I am remembering it wrong, the recall election of the Wisconsin Governor was a ‘test of the political mood’,
Not really because the Democrats (relatively normal ones) were against this and voted for Walker to stay in office. I am unsure if they would vote for a Republican Senator. The reason they voted for Walker is because they felt it was complete BS which of course they were right.
I live in Wisconsin and we love Scott Walker here and stand with him.
You obviously know nothing about him so why don’t you shut the hole up.
He balanced an out of control budget, took on the unions FEARLESSLY and has been a role model for other governors.
He has garnered the respect of the people of our state and the entire country.
You wish you had the moxy and integrity of Scott Walker.
Keep sippin’ that vodka atta your hose, pipe.
I had been an early supporter of Neumann based upon some of his early endorsements. However, it does not seem like he’s faring well at all as the race unfolds. So I’m moving my support to Hovde as he now seems like the best candidate to both defeat Thompson in the primary and Baldwin in the general election. My financial contributions will not be large and are largely symbolic, but it’s all I can do as an out-of-stater (People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland).
“....nothing really HAS happened.. in Wisconsin..”
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Do you not keep up on current events? Or are you living in some sort of alternate universe?
Lots of great things have been happening in Wisconsin since Governor Walker was elected. The folks in Wisconsin have a lot to be proud of—both in Governor Walker and in themselves for starting the process of overthrowing their oppressors.
obviously you hope that thompson loses, but this is muddy enough that you have to let the people of wisconsin decide the primary. too bad.
The Unions Own Wisconsin..... Still...
Not that anyone would want to with her but why would a working man vote for a woman who wouldn’t have sex with him?
[ He balanced an out of control budget, took on the unions FEARLESSLY and has been a role model for other governors. ]
True.... he did that and others things as well... BUT...
He overlooked the literally only thing that will fix Wisconsin.. ONLY thing..
He must FREE Wisconsin of the threat of the UNIONS..
Where the Unions are Boss FREEDOM is not available..
The Unions stand in direct opposition to the taxpayers..
They are the enemy of a free State parasites on the taxpayer..
Walker is tinkering with the edges overlooking the “problem”..
The Unions are Wisconsin’s ONLY PROBLEM...
Liberals never rest. They never work, but they never rest.
But after seeing what happened in Ohio (which is even less unionized than us), most of us have to agree that Pennsylvania just wasn't ready for a Scott Walker. Corbett did get some of our worst public employee unions to make significant concessions based on what was actually accomplished in Wisconsin.
The unions actually chose to avoid confrontation here. Maybe we could have gotten a better deal by provoking a confrontation. But maybe we could have lost as happened in Ohio.
Scott Walker didn't set out to provoke a confrontation. He merely asked for reasonable concessions and the unions chose confrontation.
I don’t live in WI, but it sounds like Hovde is da man!
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