Posted on 09/25/2014 1:01:11 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
On hearing Friday’s news that Mary Burke’s job-creation plan was plagiarized from other Democrats running for governor, in Delaware, Tennessee, and elsewhere we thought, well…there are think tanks whose business is to share such ideas.
But Burke reacted less calmly, firing the consultant responsible for the cut-and-paste job. Why? For duping her into thinking she had a jobs plan?
More intriguing than Burke snatching ideas that may be interchangeable among Democrats is her apparently scant familiarity with what she is proposing. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel quoted her saying “This is my plan on how to drive Wisconsin’s economy forward,” later adding that she had made it “the centerpiece” of her campaign—begging the question of why she wouldn’t recognize material that wasn’t her own. The lingering impression is that the content doesn’t matter, least of all to Burke.
So what does matter in this singularly odd campaign?
A jobs plan outsourced because there had to be one; a resume mixing employment by a company her family owns with periods of prolonged unemployment and activity Burke strains to define. A privileged baby-boomer in a candidacy disconnected from achievement, based solely on Mary Burke not being Scott Walker. That. Is. All.
As Jim Doyle’s Commerce Secretary, effectively his chief job-creation officer, didn’t Burke have ideas of her own? Dare we ask how they worked out? Weekend stories detailed more plagiarism that couldn’t have involved the fired consultant. Has Burke no agenda she can safely reveal?
If anything about the Democrats’ handpicked nominee seems familiar, seems to resonate with current realities in America, it’s the apparent detachment from the necessities of governing. A vaporous, unfocused figure glimpsed occasionally through swirling mists, the anti-Walker, nothing more.
Don’t dismiss her prospects: About 48 percent of the voters think that’s enough.
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Wisconsin Club for Growth editorial on Mary Burke’s plagiarism.
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Not sure why plagiarism on the part of the Dems (in any state) is such a big deal.
They ALL C&P and live and BREATHE Alinsky’s, ‘Rules For Radicals’ on a daily basis.
What more can we expect? ;)
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