If recent polls regarding the recall election taking place in Wisconsin are anywhere near being correct, then an election victory for Republican Gov. Scott Walker is becoming more of a sure thing with each passing day and will become a reality on June 5. And here’s the clearest evidence to date that national Democrat Party officials suddenly are of the opinion that a loss here would be of very little political consequence and they may believe their side is now losing: Democrat officials are playing down the potential impact. And when this whole circus first started I seem to remember them all being so confident that it would all go their way.
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, and certified moron, Debbie Wizzerman Schultz, insisted in a recent television interview that a loss for the Democratic candidate in the recall, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, would not have any serious implications for other races, such as, let’s say, and just for the sake of argument, the presidential election. “I think, honestly, there aren’t going to be any repercussions,” Wizzerman Schultz said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program. “It’s an election that’s based in Wisconsin.” I’d say that over the course of this whole thing Wizzerman Schultz has changed her tune considerably.
Public employee unions and liberal activist groups from all across the country have spearheaded the effort to recall Walker, who became a hero to conservatives last year when he pushed a bill through the state Legislature that ended most collective bargaining rights for state workers. Although Walker’s opponents gathered more than 900,000 signatures on recall petitions earlier this year, many of which may have been bogus, in a state where Walker was elected governor with just over 1.2 million votes – polls have indicated that the effort to end his tenure as governor early will fall short. All that remains to be seen at this point is by how much.
Some Republican strategists believe, and rightly so I think, that a successful defense of Walker does at least have the potential to put them in a very good position to contest the state in this November’s presidential election. Barry easily carried Wisconsin, and by the substantial margin of 14 percentage points, back in 2008, but the state was among the closest in the nation just four years earlier. Wizzerman Schultz also took the opportunity to push back against complaints coming from some local Democrats there in Wisconsin that the national party has been far too stingy in its supporting of Barrett. And if I were one of those locals, I think I would agreeing with them.
“We put more than $250,000 into the race already,” she argued very energetically, noting that she was heading for Wisconsin herself on Tuesday for a Barrett fundraiser. But shouldn’t she may have been doing that the while time? She said, “We sent out an email this week to our more than 2 million-plus donor base from the Democratic Party, telling them that the first important national election is the June 5 election to recall Scott Walker and elect Mayor Tom Barrett, and asking our considerable donor base to contribute.” Now I’m no big political guru, but it would seem to me that $250,000 ain’t squat. And schlepping of to Wisconsin a week before the election shows a real lack of concern.
And maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention to this entire thing, but I don’t really remember hearing about any big name Democrats heading off to Wisconsin to campaign with this guy, Barrett. And that says a lot! And if those in your supposed “considerable donor base” witness such a lackluster attempt coming from the party bigwigs regarding a willingness to offer up services in an effort to give this guy a boost to win, where’s the incentive for them to cough up any of their money toward the effort? Even brain dead liberals, more often than not, don’t give money to what’s considered to be a losing effort. I mean they may be stupid but their still human, sort of.
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