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When Sarah Palin went to speak at the Republican convention two years back, a hurricane came in and shut it down. But I suppose it was just a coincidence that hundreds of tornadoes swept across the South when she gave her Wisconsin speech last week. Something to watch, like the apocalypse. When I was raising my kids there in lower Appalachia, apocalypse was well on the minds of the local radio preacher shamans in the mountains and in the serpent-handling so-called “primitive" churches in the hollows, and without question it shadowed the judgment of the born-again George W. Bush and...

Sarah Palin has been making more public appearances lately, attending a Tea Party rally in Madison, WI on Saturday, which once again raises the question: could Sarah win the Republican nomination and the presidency? It seems when it comes to Sarah Palin, people either love her or hate her and that could be her biggest obstacle in a Presidential run; she would need to win all those in the middle if she has any hope of winning. She would have to hope voters take her seriously, but she might not be given the chance to ever talk about the issues....

For the second time, Sarah Palin is weighing in on a major Wisconsin election. The former Republican governor of Alaska is endorsing incumbent David Prosser in Tuesday’s contest for the State Supreme Court. Prosser is running against Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg – and a Prosser victory would continue a 4-3 conservative majority on the state’s highest court. Palin announced her support for Prosser on Twitter this morning. It comes a day after Prosser lost one of his honorary campaign co-chairs, as former Democratic Governor Pat Lucey decided to back Kloppenburg instead. Last year, Palin ruffled feathers by endorsing prosecutor...

It looks like the Dems are getting desperate win a point any way they can, even if it is by spending 1 million on a local County Executive race for Scott Walker's old seat. A pretty sad and desperate move, and the worst part for them is it looks like 1 million can't even by them a local seat, the tide has fully turned...

Two liberal groups that have been going after the guv for his move to roll back collective bargaining have tweaked their TV ad to specifically call for the recall of GOP state senators. The spot from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America features interviews with protesters around the Capitol square talking about the personal impact of the austerity measures. The tweaked ads do not show pictures of the targeted lawmakers, but finish with a screen shot calling for their recall and listing the Web address for RecalltheRepublicans.com. The spot running in Green Bay mentions Sens. Randy Hopper,...

The day after an estimated 85,000 to 100,000 people massed on or near the Capitol in Madison in response to the passage of Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, and the day after U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) mistakenly disclosed that Lexington and Concord, Mass., were really in New Hampshire, a friend e-mailed me a Sarah Palin joke. In this reincarnation of an old joke, Palin jumps from a stricken aircraft with a child's backpack she thinks is a parachute. Substitute a priest, a rabbi, a Muslim cleric, an Iowan, a Yugo owner, anyone, and the joke aims to say whoever...

The Republican 8 stayed in Madison, did their jobs, made the difficult decisions, and stood up for what is right for the People of Wisconsin. Now they are the ones facing RECALL ELECTIONS! These Eight Republican Senators NEED YOUR HELP! Donate via a link at the site

Gov. Scott Walker has always been considered a radio talk show darling. But who knew the talkers were actually opening their wallets to help him out? Along with receiving $500 from Charlie Sykes, the first-term governor also got $150 from Jay Weber, who has a morning show on WISN-AM (1130), and $100 from John "Sly" Sylvester of WTDY-AM (1670) in Madison in 2009. But wait - isn't Sly a liberal who has been appearing frequently at the Capitol protests against the first-term Republican governor? Yep. Sylvester said he was made the donation to Walker in an attempt to stick it...

Rush Limbaugh said the only Republican folks with a back bone are Palin and Bachmann. Last week Congress was apprised by the Heritage Foundation about the provision in the Obamacare bill which appropriates $105 billion towards its funding- a complete and fraudulent circumvention of the legislative process. In the bill, instead of following the rules and letting the next Congress go through the appropriations process, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats appropriated billions of dollars in funding for Obamacare without holding a single hearing, or even allowing Members of Congress a chance to read the bill. Why is Bachmann one of...

The 14 Senate Dems who left the state in an attempt to stop a vote on the budget repair bill will be featured at tomorrow's Capitol rally, organizers have announced.

"Special elections are a better indication than any poll can provide as to the mindset of the electorate as well as the motivation and organization of the base of each party between the predetermined election cycle."

Vicki McKenna is interviewing Gov. Walker now

How many times have we heard the lament: If only we had a leader who wouldn’t stick his or her finger in the air to see which way the wind was blowing, who wouldn’t govern by reading the polls every morning? We’ve all asked that question at one time or another. We’ve all wished for someone who would act according to principles rather than polls. Like his principles or not, we’ve got such a leader. In fact, Gov. Scott Walker took to his Twitter account this past weekend to pass along an article from the Weekly Standard – more about...

That's what Sarah Palin yelled at Gabrielle Giffords before she was shot, right? Or was it Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh? Just kidding. Conservatives don't talk like that. But liberals do--as we are now learning, they do it a lot. This time it was Rep. Gordon Hintz (D Oshkosh) who, immediately after the Republicans had passed their budget in Wisconsin's Assembly, turned to Rep. Michelle Litjens (R-Winneconne) and yelled, "You are f****** dead!" This is Assemblyman Hintz; is it just my imagination, or does he look like a jerk? There is a great deal of violent talk going on these...

In Wisconsin, we all know that the Democrat Members of the State Senate have fled the state in a pathetic display of juvenile antics akin to "ditching school." Many people have wondered what the Democrat Members of the Assembly are doing. Today we found out. When the bill trimming back benefits for public employee unions was passed in the State Assembly, this was their shocking reaction. Warning - this will make your blood boil when you see the disgusting behavior by what are supposed to be the representatives of "We The People."

The (Wisconsin) Senate voted 19-0 to repeal requirements that law enforcement collect data from traffic stops in an attempt to ascertain whether there is any racial profiling going on. The bill also repeals a requirement that law enforcement academies train recruits on avoiding racial profiling. Sen. Mary Lazich said the mandate, included in the 2009-11 state budget by Dems, said she heard from small and large communities about the difficulties imposed upon them through the legislation. "It's a huge, huge burden on our law enforcement community," she said.

This is an hour long podcast of Vicki's radio show from yesterday, Friday Feb. 28 - MP3 format. She sets the stage for todays rally and describes the filth, corruption, and "trashing our house" that has occurred all week at the Wisconsin State Capitol.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Democrats who fled Wisconsin to block a vote on a sweeping anti-union bill could stay in hiding for days or even weeks. Democratic state Sen. Jon Erpenbach spoke to The Associated Press at a Chicago hotel on Friday. He and fellow Democratic senators left Wisconsin on Thursday to delay the near-certain passage of a bill backed by Republicans and GOP Gov. Scott Walker....

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is delivering the official rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union next week. But, thanks to technology and the tea party movement, it won't be the only Republican response. In concert with Tea Party Express, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is delivering her own post-speech message. Ryan's response will air on national television after Obama's speech; Bachmann's will be streamed on the Tea Party Express Web site. The news was announced in a fund-raising email. Bachmann founded a Tea Party Caucus in Congress, and Tea Party Express named her a "hero" in the 2010 election. Founded...

In early April of 2010, Michelle Litjens, the chairwoman of the Winnebago Republican Party, found some local guy that was thinking of running for the U.S. Senate. She brought him down to a meeting of a handful of conservative operatives in Madison. He didn’t even know he was supposed to speak at this meeting, and patched together a few talking points in the car on the way down. When Litjens introduced businessman Ron Johnson to the group, people rolled their eyes and checked their watches as he ambled through his reasons for running. There were already a few people thinking...