As long as I’m delivering (or is that reflecting?) cold, hard reality checks, I have to deliver one to The Corner’s Ramesh Ponnuru. As much as I want to believe a Republican can carry Wisconsin, I know that as long as the current power structure is here, no Pubbie will. Allow me to explain why:
– First, we’re the state that foisted Russ Feingold on the rest of the country. Even in a year when Tommy Thompson carried the state with nearly 60% of the vote, and after 6 years of federal liberalism out of Feingold, he won re-election.
– Similarily, our corrupt, lying ‘Rat of a governor, Jim Doyle, handily won re-election last year. Heck, we even tossed out our long-time Republican state treasurer for a part-time department store clerk.
– We’re the state that gave the country “smokes-for-votes” and slashed tires. With nothing of consequence done after the 2000 and 2004 elections, and the opportunity to oust the only prosecutor even remotely-interested in vote fraud present, all of the stops will be pulled out to ensure yet another tainted, yet certified ‘Rat win.
Perhaps Ponnuru should take a rest. With meds.