Say Feisty old gal, care to wager on the outcome of all 6 recall elections?

And I wonder if you could identify for us where that "buyers remorse" went during the Prosser election?

Seems like the good voters of Wisconsin disagree with your position. and just think, it was they that foisted Ryan on you libbie freaks. :)

Oh but I'm sure he will definately not ever, under any circumstances be re-elected, is that right?

You know spanky you are turning into a real troll.

And- he gets paid by the hour. By 'clients'. Neat, huh?

And he is so positive.

Positive he's smarther than the average 'poster'? Smarter than what??

A turnip? Two turnips?? (more is better with Spank, you know...)

The Prosser election is very easy to explain. In almost any judicial election anywhere in the country that has a man vs. a woman, the male is more likely to win. People's bias is that judges represent law and order, and men represent that more than woman, regardless of the fact that the judges probably hear far more civil rather than criminal appeals. Plus Prosser's name was already long known in Wisconsin. He hadn't overturned the conviction of a mass murderer, nor was he against the death penalty. That it was still a squeaker given this advantage should be no consolation to the GOP. But the sadder fact in Wisconsin is how "segregated" certain parts of the state have become. Waukesha and Fond Du Lac produce GOP majorities not seen even in states like Kansas or Utah. Dane Co. didn't come close to producing similar Democratic majorities. You have to start wondering why Republicans are clumping together.

Don't you people realize how much easier it is to collect a few thousand signatures for a recall election than it actually is to win one?

Geeez, all they had to do was get all those Union workers who called in "sick" to protest to sign and they were done. See, the Republicans were all at work, a concept foreign to most Democrats, making it a little more difficult to fill out the petitions, so naturally the DNC is fighting the validity of the signatures

I don't think you're quite right about Dane County, which was only slightly less blue than Waukesha and Washington and Ozaukee counties were red, but in general I take your point. The liberal area of Dane County is really confined mostly to Madison and its immediate suburbs. Some of the southern areas of the county, for example, and probably in the north as well, being much more rural, are pretty conservative. What you may not have noticed is the "blueing" occurring somewhat spontaneously in the Western half of the state, as well as in the very northernmost counties, like Ashland and Bayfield, and in Paul Ryan's district south of Madison, which went heavily for Prosser in the recall election. Why republicans are clumping together, especially in the Milwaukee area, ought to be obvious -- they called it white flight when I was growing up in the county immediately north of Milwaukee, the county that is today the most conservative in the state. It's the land of enchanted disconnect.

Geeez, all they had to do was get all those Union workers who called in "sick" to protest to sign and they were done.

How smugly ignorant you are, White Collar. The recalls are not occurring in those State Senate districts, which were heavily blue to begin with. I live in one of them. They are mostly outstate, and in normally republican districts, and even the conservative suburbs of Milwaukee, where people affected by Walker's meanness are hopping mad. The petitions that have been accepted so far by and large had MANY, MANY more signatures than were required, and most were returned very early.

As for verifying the signatures, the problem -- seeeee -- is that there were a lot of "irregularities," like signatures of dead people, bribes being given for signatures, and misrepresentations as to what people were actually signing. As for republicans hiring out-of-state workers to circulate their petitions, I could make a snarky comment about out-sourcing jobs being the republican mantra, but the real reason is that they couldn't find anyone who wanted to do their dirty work.

Me:

and in Paul Ryan's district south of Madison, which went heavily for Prosser in the recall election.

Ooops. I meant that Ryan's district went heavily (about 60/40) for Kloppenburg in the Supreme Court election. Sorry.

White Collar Auto and Spanky:

You obviously don't understand recalls. Mobilizing citizens is not easy. That's one of the reasons you have always sold "The Community Organizer" short. That is very hard work; hard enough with lockstep Republicans, even harder with that herd of cats - Democrats.

Regardless, these are some motivated people. They are angry. The fact that they were able to have the requisite number of signatures validated in six districts - SIX - so quickly, speaks to efficiency, organization, and anger.

The Republicans in their pathetic counter-strike, have resorted to the very tactics they love to associate with Democrats - paid signature gatherers, with the added kicker of commissions - all kinds of room for the equivalent of voter registration fraud. You know what I mean? You understand that Republican projection thing, right? That's why it's taking longer to verify signatures. In fact, the odds are that the percentage of invalid signatures will be higher on the Republican side.

The Governor and his narrow-minded, control-freak legislators have overplayed their hand.

Maybe it is "white flight." In my neck of woods, sometime around the Goldwater era, it was moving beyond the city limits to avoid those pesky water taxes. But in the present, the lack of diversity and the lack of community involvement is leading to a rigidity of thinking and an us vs. them view of the world. Not a healthy democracy.

Yeah, I'm sure those dems protests are totally legit.

Funny how they busted through the huge workload to get only the republican recalls certified, but not the dems.

Yep, that probably won't ensure an even higher republican turnout. When are you libbies going to learn that your silly shenanigans only ever come back and bite you in the ass?

Lying to 'Real Americans', how low will the liars go?..

There is NO depth to which these b@satrds won't go...

Remember this?

From Think Progress:

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to gather enough signatures to trigger recall elections of state senators in Wisconsin, some backers are turning to peculiar, unconventional and, it appears, even intoxicating means.

The Wisconsin Democratic Party is planning to file a complaint to the state Government Accountability Board alleging that a Republican signature-gatherer offered alcoholic beverages to a group of women to get them to sign a recall petition against a Democratic state senator.

Although that's not illegal in Wisconsin, it is strongly discouraged and, Democrats argue, evidence that Republicans don't really have enough grassroots support for their recall campaigns.

Howdy Spanky,

Will you admit that the 'silly shenanigans' of the prior administration are bitting this country in the ass at every level!

Yes, Feisty

I remember the report about buying drinks for signatures in WI!

Sadly, nothing is every done to stop this kind of behavior since the wheels of justice seem to move so slowly, if not just stop at all.

....and the GOP/TP Governors continue their sham on the people by passing voter ID legislation to decrease, they hope, democratic turnout!

Gee, I read it on Think Progress so it must be true.......

White Collar Auto

Gee, I read it on Think Progress so it must be true.......

Gee, you're dismissing information out of hand simply because you don't want to hear it and for no other good reason. Your casual refusal to consider any information that doesn't fit your prejudices is exactly why you wingnuts have lost contact with reality.

White Collar Auto:

[Gee, I read it on Think Progress so it must be true.......]

Just because you don't like the messenger doesn't change the message.

white collar crime can you point out something in the article that isn't true?

SO, out of staters should keep out of WI politics, right Rob? Say- what's the 'ma' in you moniker stand for??

I just don't like THUGS drive by, that all.

"Everybody is entitled to my opinion" see how fair I can be?

Well, helll- that's better than a sore weiner: it can't be beat.

Rob in MA, you and Bob are a pair -- all you prove is that Massachusetts is apparently a thug state. You can't appreciate that in other parts of the country things are run differently. Do you like Gov. Romney?

the republicans hired two out of state convicted felons to collect signatures. one was arrested for theft, after robbing a couple. who knows how many more crimes they commited. the out of state teabagger from utah who started the recalls against the dems, also a convicted felon, spent 10 years in prison.so rob would you consider these people "thugs" ? or do you reserve that term for school teachers who are fighting to maintain a middle class living?

Yep, and what happened in CA was brought to you by none other than Howard Jarvis, REPUBLICAN.

And Ronald Reagan - Republican. And Arnold Schwarznegger - Republican.

Fielden,

Both Republican, whats your point? Its both sides, and the current governor Jerry Brown is bought and paid for by the unions. They will not be happy until they drain every cent from the taxpayers not only the middle class, these taxes also effects the poor and elderly.

I am so glad I have a home in Arizona when it gets to much, I am gone.

thetotas bah- bah, if we could get rid of the few rethugs we have left out here, we can get this state back to the great state it once was before the repubicans. thank god californians were not stupid enough to vote in the teabaggers like all those poor states, evan though more corporate money was spent here than any other state to elect the right wing extremists. alot of smart people out here

and that's why they're running scared trying to pass all these crazy bills cause they know their time is short. I wish every last one of them could have been recalled. Now they're making it harder to register to vote or vote with more crazy rules. Yep, talk about fraud, they wrote the book.