Actually, the media fire does matter. The union/leftwing media alliance have done their best to deliver many negative media cycles for Walker and the GOP. All it takes is 3 Wisconsin Republican Senators to become weak in the knees and cave in. One we already know is a major RINO who wants to negotiate, so if 2 more bow to the media pressure the unions win. The left knows the stakes here are huge and have been able to turn out huge crowds that show no signs of diminishing.
Where are the pro Walker forces in Wisconsin? Most have jobs I know, but if these protests go largely unchallenged, I am not certain how long the good guys can hold out. A loss here would be incredibly damaging to efforts to push the same needed legislation elsewhere - and it would encourage more legislature walkouts and lawlessness as the media/unions/left will enshrine it as a legitimate tactic.
Already Walker is delaying the lay off notices that he threatened for this past Friday. The Dem Senators called his bluff. He shouldn't have threatened to send out the layoff notices and not done it. To the left that is a sign of weakness.
The key to winning is to just wait it out and stay strong, but Walker and the Republicans are taking a terrible beating in the media. Can the Republican state Senators really hold out that much longer? I hope so, but am not as confident as many here.
The “big” rally got little air time on the news here (Milwaukee). I flipped around to 3 of the local stations. As for crowd estimate, all they would say is that the crowd was bigger than it has been the past few days (when it was in the hundreds).
And, really . . . Bradley Whitford? This is the best they could do?
They’ll hold. Walker went through this in his County Job.
Your “concern” is noted.
Walker and the stalwart Conservatives in the legislature have the POWER. They will WIN.
How many votes do “the media” have?
How many votes do the pollsters get?
All the rest is a footnote.