Liberal Reaction: Samples from the Whine Rack
April 2nd, 2008
Hours after the polls closed I predicted:
I expect tomorrow we’ll hear from many how voters were ‘duped,’ how voters are ‘dumb’ and/or how disappointed people are in the ‘lack of reasoning’ of voters.
And, the usual suspects did not disappoint.
Folkbum started it off with a truly bizarre rant…
Congratulations, [ ]Anti-Choice Groups [x]Business Interests [ ]Anti-Gay Bigots , on the purchase of your [ ]Congressman [ ]Amendment [x]Supreme Court Justice .
We regret that in the course of negotiating your purchase, you had to [x]lie [x]exploit people’s fears [ ]show yourself to be the bigot you are [x]drag the level of public discourse down to its lowest point ever [x]destroy the reputation of upstanding citizens .
The comments to his post include more gems, like this:
What is there to be proud of? Voters in this state fell to appeals of fear to elect someone who is going to rule against their self-interest.
In what was an otherwise touching tribute to a lost family member, the petulant, juvenile Mike Plaisted complains about the nasty, partisan tone of the race. As one commenter noted, that’s like the Pope complaining about religion.
Whallah! offers this nugget:
Wisconsin is a worse place to live today. The Constitution means a little less today.
Ed Gavey chimes in:
Saul Alinsky urged a tip-of-the-hat to Lucifer for he has his own kingdom. So, a tip-of-the-hat to WMC for the outrageous, albeit successful, campaign to oust Louis Butler. Lies, fear, misrepresentation and millions of dollars paid off. A new low in Wisconsin history was rewarded by election of a sure vote for WMC.
But let’s face it. Too many people treated this all-important race as a spectator sport.
Disrespecting the voters and the will of the electorate…Brilliant!
But, all is not lost on the left end of the cheddarsphere. Pundit Nation did offer this salient point:
Las year it was Ziegler. This year it was Gableman. Next year, who knows?
Next year? What about November?
P.S. I’m taping WisOpinion: The Show at the Avenue Bar later this afternoon. Look for the post-election edition of the program to be online shortly thereafter.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
[…] he called it. The moonbat half of the Cheddarsphere is acting like there’s a full moon and they’re […]
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
Maybe if they had sent out the tire slashers this time……
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 am
You can’t pick on Ed Garvey. If he believed the electorate, he’d have to have a really low opinion of himself.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Walker = Hitler? Seriously?
http://othersideofmymouth.blogspot.com/2008/04/two-ambitious-men.html
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 am
If Butler had won, could I change that form letter to read:
Congratulations WEAC for purchasing your Supreme Court Justice.
Your $400,000 investment will ultimately mean bupkus, but by all means keep spending your members’ hard-earned, yet meager, wages on pipe dream elections.
… with a sister who teaches the fifth grade, I know there are plenty of dues-paying members that despise what WEAC does with that money …
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
[…] me to add a single thought to the post-election spinning happening across the blogosphere (Fraley, Garvey, Charlie, Plaisted, Folkbum, […]
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
… with a sister who teaches the fifth grade, I know there are plenty of dues-paying members that despise what WEAC does with that money …
Hell, I despise what they do with that money–my dues. I have been asking WEAC to change their views of CFR for longer than I’ve been blogging.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Admittedly, in 2009, I’m a tad scared of what the Garveyites might do in that race.
I mean, Shirley’s up for re-election next year. Then again, at 76, will she want another decade on the…who the hell am I kidding here, her corpse will have to removed from the chambers.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
[…] Brain Fraley has more, including the two above. […]
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
[…] more, the left side of the Cheddarsphere is going apoplectic. Brian Fraley catalogues it here and here, the latter being an attempt to equate Scott Walker to Adolf […]
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Wisconsin voters are reasonable. They don’t want liberals walking all over the state constitution and they don’t like it when governors abuse their veto power.
They proved that yesterday.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:46 am
[…] on the left go farther than blaming low voter turnout and the election date. Fraley points out the left’s reaction, as does […]
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
The sad truth is WMC put up — and the electorate chose — an intellectual cipher. At least they could have picked a candidate with a brain.