Heavy turnout in Wisconsin–Good news for the Republic

View 727 Tuesday, June 05, 2012

There’s E3 today and tomorrow but I don’t think I’ll be going. I may get up the gumption to go to Steve Leon’s Show Stoppers tonight, but that’s a fight into traffic. We’ll see. Probably not. I’m having trouble getting that interested in what’s going on in electronic entertainment. Everything is getting bigger, faster, and better, and one of these days I’ll probably get in on some of it, but just now my problem is getting some words down on paper – well, into bits on a drive, and that just goes to show that I started in the writing racket when it was words on paper. Ah. Well.

The crucial election today is in Wisconsin. The Republicans will have to win about 5% more vote because we can expect fraud and deception in plenty. The stakes are very high here. Recall shouldn’t be a contest on fund raising, which is what it amounts to. Those who can afford to get the recall on the ballot will be able to devil those who don’t so that eventually you have a one party state. It’s not quite the same as having the bully boys beat up people or feed tham castor oil, but the effect is pretty well the same. The result will be that those with the money – or with paid union workers who can go gather signatures – will be able to drive those who can’t out of political life.

Given that this usually means increasing deficits and greater entitlements, and that isn’t sustainable – see Greece as an example – which will mean – well, what?

We now have more people getting benefits from government than paying taxes.

It can’t go one forever. When something can’t go on forever, it will stop. What comes then? Well, traditionally, you get a friend of the people to become emperor.

More death by drone. The wars of assassination by UAV continue. And the price of do it yourself drones continues to fall. We live in interesting times.

Lines out the door in Wisconsin. Heavy turnout. My guess is that the media would be making a great deal more of this if it were thought that this is indicative of a heavy vote for recall, and thus it indicates the recall’s failure. We can always hope.

Niven and I went up the hill yesterday, and I remain a bit tired. I need to do that more often. It’s good for me, but it does tend to wear me out. And it’s lunch time.

It’s official. By at least 8 percentage points, the recall in Wisconsin has been defeated. I am sure there are many boxes of uncounted ballots ready to be discovered, enough to swing the election to the Democrats even by two percentage points, but this is just too large for them to overcome. Obama and the socialists have lost and the Republic has won this bout.

Wisconsin went heavily for Obama in 2008. It is a state key to his reelection, and he seems to have lost it, first in 2010 when the Democrats lost the state house, and now after the all out effort to recall the governor, by even more. A blue state no more. The Republic may survive after all. If that sounds excessive, apologies; but I am exhilarated. I had hoped for this, and all the indications – including the mainstream media’s reluctance to talk about what was happening – pointed to a larger victory this time than in 2010, but it was not certain. And as I said, there is little doubt that there are undiscovered boxes of ballots – now not ever to be discovered – in reserve had the vote been close.  Or perhaps I am paranoid, and being too hard on the Democrats?  But I don’t think so.

Onward to November. It may be a good year for the Republic. And it is just possible that candidate Romney will take some heart from this. He is the least establishment oriented of the establishment Republicans, and his has the right instincts and principles, and he said

"Tonight voters said ‘no’ to the tired, liberal ideas of yesterday, and ‘yes’ to fiscal responsibility and a new direction. I look forward to working with Governor Walker to help build a better, brighter future for all Americans," he said.

Could it be that he means it? This was a maximum effort mission for the public employee unions and the Democrats, and in a state that they had won in 2008.

So it was a good day.