You Know It's Bad When Your Base Turns On You

Even Jerry Bader, squawker from the Fox Valley, is getting disgusted with Scott Walker's hypocrisy and lack of character:

Then...The Walker campaign sent out a direct mailer on Saturday (I received it at home) which seemed downright desperate; it attempts to idenitfy Neumann with...wait for it...Nancy Pelosi!!! In fact, it seems as desperate as any of the attacks Neumann launched at Walker early on. It certainly doesn't give the appearance of a candidate with a comfortable lead. In fact, it doesn't give the appearance of a candidate with ANY kind of lead. Neumann is holding a Sunday afternoon news conference to address the mail piece.

As I said above, I have no idea how much this race has tightened, but whatever the gap is it's not enough for Scott Walker's comfort. And I'm every bit as dissappointed with this from Walker as I was from Neumann early on. Unlike other conservative talk show hosts in the state, I didn't have a horse in this race early on. In fact, I welcomed the Neumann entry into the race. It was the nasty campaign tactics that prompted me to urge him to drop out. Neumann's latter stage strategy has apparently made him competitive with Walker. I'm not going to be hypocritcal and give Walker a pass. Trying to suggest that Mark Neumann is a free-spending liberal whose picture should be next to Nancy Pelosi's is as preposterous as anything Neumann alleged early on.

Scott Walker's campaign was as indignant as indignant gets at Neumann's early tactics. It's sadly dissappointing to see that when the internal polling apparently gets uncomfortable for him he stoops to the same tactics. And what's particularly unnerving is that apparently the Walker campaign kept this powder dry for just such a deployment if they felt it was needed. Playing the "Pelosi" card???? Just how TIGHT is this race???

You know Walker is in trouble when even the paid help isn't helping any more. I just wonder if Charlie Sykes or Patrick McIlheran will have the courage to call Walker out on his poor behavior.

H/T Fairly Conservative and Team Neumann

It's Lonely Out On The Fringe

You gotta feel bad for Jerry Bader. Even if he's not completely wrong you'd think somebody would march out there with him on the Lawton rumors. Even Vicki McKenna won't repeat his story.

Of course, she hasn't acknowledged that Lawton is a story yet, 20 hours after the fact. So much for breaking news.

Updated: Bader walks it back. 10/27/09

11:23 AM STATEMENT FROM JERRY BADER CONCERNING THE BARBARA LAWTON STORY:

I HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN THE SOURCES THAT PROVIDED INFORMATION YESTERDAY REGARDING LT. GOV BARBARA LAWTON. THEREFORE I CANNOT STAND BY THE STORY POSTED YESTERDAY.

Notice it's not about him accepting responsibility for running with a story he couldn't back up. Bader blames his sources.

On the other hand, Binversie just drops the story down the memory hole.

I have also removed my later post on this matter.

Updated 10/28: The sleazebucket Bader is still at it. He still has his original link up with the same title but now there's a different soundbite behind it that speculates (He stresses three times that he's speculating. That's the same number of times he saud he was "Reporting factually," on Monday.) that "someone" applied leverage to get Lawton to step aside.

First, he drops his first story down the memory hole and says that there has been "talk" about the reasons she left the race.

Second, he pretends that he's not a part of the story.

Third, he's pimping it from the same link as if he was right all along.

It's no wonder you hear him referred to as a cut-rate Sykes, Even Chuck had better sense than to bite into the turd that Bader swore by.

What Do You Do When You've Got kNOthing?

You launch a new website.

The great thinkers have deferred to Ted Nugent to name the newest conservative flavor of the weekend and are fronting it with Vicki McKenna wannabe, Jerry Bader.

Now, normally these websites turn out to be little more than pop-ups in the grand scheme of political discussion. Does anybody remember the Wisconsin Institute for Leadership? That disappeared like smoke as soon as the checks all cleared. But this one has a hook on which to hang its silliness. Bader doesn't want to race to the bottom but, gosh darn it, he just has to.

I do not make Hitler analogies lightly; nor would I compare Barack Obama with Adolf Hitler, the greatest mass murderer of all time. BUT the dramatic changes that took place in Germany in the 1930’s and America today ARE analogous; in fact it’s happening even quicker here.

You may have seen some of Bader's listeners outside the Pres' Green Bay appearance. They were the ones holding signs that called for, "No Health Care," without a shred of awareness of the irony.

Bader has a chiseled himself some market share outside the Milwaukee/Madison AM reach and is using it to mobilize the Fox Valley to chant, "Stop That." No matter how he spells it, "kNOw means No."