Discussion for article #235379
GOOD!
Clean his clock Russ!
Run, Russ, Run…
That’s not hard to believe considering what a tool Ron Johnson is.
Naturally!
The set up of our midterm elections which favor the GOP is increasingly untenable. How does one state go directly from a Feingold to a Johnson? Low turnout in the off years. The illogicality is obscene.
Filed under: “Reasons for Johnson to subpoena the WH over gyrocopter guy.”
“Recently Feingold stepped down at the State Department”
I guess it’s time to try to link him to Benghazi, eh?
Please run Russ. We need your voice in the Senate big time. You and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would be so great!
Sorry Wisconsin. You had your chance. Until proven otherwise, I am going to consider the state Teabag Central.
Just like Michigan. How does Michigan end up be run by right wing nut jobs when they haven’t voted for a repub for the presidency since Pappy Bush. We have 2 Dem Senators who are doing us proud, but by the left leaners not voting in 2010 and 2014 Michigan is screwed.
Even that -
even if Benghazi were an actual scandal for the administration (as opposed to Washington DC in general and most particularly the dominant coalition of teabugs, cons, blue dog Dem, bipartisan anti-taxers, and those supreme a-holes in Republican leadership who shrink the budget by freeze-drying it and dropping it from heights and shooting ice bullets into it and sawing off at arbitrary end points, all the while laughing maniacally) -
won’t help Johnson. He’s proved to be an incredible putz, even for a lying cheating teapster Republican.
If he were more competent at passing on utter falsehoods, like Paul Ryan, or truly lost to venality and now nothing more than a ruthless hit man for the GOP’s paymasters, like Boehner and McConnell, or a more thoroughly despicable and ruthless pirate like Issa, he’d maybe have some chance, against someone, because the Wisconsin big red machine would come out for him.
But he’s proved such an incompetent guardian and representative of any Wisconsin interest other than the Kochs, such a consummate doofus at politics, it’s got to the point where the Dems pro’ly don’t even need Feingold to ensure taking him out. With Feingold, the election will yield a decisive, perhaps historic ass-kicking, and expand Hillary’s in-state numbers.
Also, not easy to tie Congo and the contiguous Central African Great Lakes nations to Bbbeeennnggghhhaaazzziii.
It’s not much further from LA to NYC than it is from the DR of Congo to Libya. DRC is over FIVE TIMES further from Benghazi than Tripoli is.
It’s not the self-described “liberals” who stay home at mid-terms. They’re by far the most reliable Democratic voters. It’s the rest of the Democratic coalition - minorities and young people in particular - who don’t turn out.
Makes me very happy! Hope the margins continue to grow for Russ.
I’m new here and have not yet learned the politics. It seems I live in a strongly GOP area here in south central Michigan.
…because you’re nearly in Indiana?
The problem with winning in an off year republican sweep in the Senate is that when you run again in 6 years you will be tied to whomever is running in a presidential year…and they tend to not favour those way to the right
At the time, Russ Feingold blamed his loss on low Democrat turnout due to disenchantment with Obama’s riding around in the clown car with big Pharma and assorted Republican constituencies.
I hope he will return to the Senate. One of a kind.
I’m from WI, and unfortunately I have to agree. Hate to be pessimistic about this, and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see Russ back in office, and I understand 2016 will offer a much more favorable set of conditions. But polls also showed Walker doing poorly at the outset of the recall and that slimy devil is still in office. In all, I think polls will look pretty different once the Koch money comes pouring in. It’s a sad state of affairs in a once blue-ish state.
“…Feingold trouncing Johnson by about 9 points…”
Nothing that a few billion from bored magnates can’t change.