Sykes: Sexual Assaults No Big Deal

This morning, on the day before the primaries, Charlie Sykes was naturally talking about the elections and trying to convince his dwindling audience why they should vote for Scott Walker, Ron Johnson, etc.

Two things really struck me while listening.

One, things must be looking a lot tighter than Walker would like, if he is not losing outright. Why do I say that? Because Sykes was already making excuses for a Walker loss on Tuesday. He kept listing two reasons why Walker could lose:

1. A high turn out of "uninformed, casual voters" who only know what they see in the commercials
2. Democrats and/or union members crossing over to vote in the Republican races.

Considering the number of people that have Neumann signs, or are being active for him, not just here in the Milwaukee area, but all over the state, that is rather elitist and condescending of Sykes. If I were a conservative voter, that would be more likely to push me into Neumann's camp.

As for the crossing over, I don't see it happening. For a cross over to have any real significance, it would require the bulk to occur in Milwaukee and Dane Counties. It's not going to happen in Milwaukee, because there are too many people that are eager to start taking the County back, and give the boot to Jeff Plale, Peggy Krusick and David Clarke. It's my understanding that there is at least one heated Democratic race in Dane County too, which would eliminate a section of those possible cross overs.

Like I said, they must be feeling pretty damn scared right now.

The other thing that Sykes said nearly forced me to pull over in disbelief.

When he opened the phone lines for callers to say who they were going to vote for, the very first voter proudly stated he was voting for Neumann. When Sykes asked why, the caller stated that Walker proved himself to be a bad leader as shown by the O'Donnell Park tragedy and the ongoing horrors at the mental health complex.

Sykes blew off the caller saying that those were simply lefty/union talking points.

Is Sykes really saying that the death of a teenage boy and the sexual assaults of cognitively disabled women as being mere talking points? I thought Sykes was a misogynistic reprobate before, but even I wasn't ready as to how low he would stoop.

Since this is the talking point of Team Walker and the Republican Party, keep that in mind when you go vote. The death of a boy or the raping of women is no big deal, as long as they get to forward their ideological agenda.

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

I Hope It's In The Cow Barn

Today, Jeff Wagner is supposed to be holding a live debate between Scott Walker and Mark Neumann at State Fair Park. Yeah, like Wagner is going to be a fair and effective moderator.

Anyway, I hope they plan on holding their little rap session in the cow barn. At least there, they already know how to deal with all the bullshit that will be flowing.

That's Not An Easy Feat

Cindy Kilkenny is finding amusement at how Scott Walker's free advertisement crew, aka talk radio, is preparing to jump the shark in their flailing defense of Walker's ineptitude and complete lack of leadership.

However, she cites an accomplishment by Mark Neumann which is not often done:

I’ll be very honest and say that I also hope another mistake like that press release from Neumann never happens again. I’ll also say I’m very impressed Neumann called into the show this afternoon. He made Belling look like an idiot. Oh. Or maybe I should say even more of an idiot.

When you're dealing with someone like Belling, or even Sykes, it's difficult to make them look even more idiotic or foolish than they already do. After all, they are masters at that task.

Impeccable Resources

Patrick McIlheran says Mark Neumann is a dead duck in the race for governor.

His source of this wisdom? Well, none other than Dad29, who thinks Neumann is mentally ill-prepared:

Neumann's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top of the building any more. The lights are on, but nobody's home. He's a couple cans short of a 12-pack. His transmission doesn't have a 3rd gear. He's wacky, folks.

Yup, the same Dad29 who's "genetic response" to homosexuals (or common sense, for that matter) is to stock up on ammo.

So, how much do you think Tom Barrett will beat Neumann by in November?

Also see: The woman who took down the GOP

Where Has He Been?

PaddyMac was touting his upcoming appearance on Sunday's Incite, and the one topic was: OMG!!!!, Mark Neumann called out Scott Walker on one of his many lies! How absolutely negative!

But I wonder where old Pat was in November 2008 when Scott Walker sent out a campaign fund raising letter claiming that President Barack Obama and Governor Jim Doyle had opened Wisconsin's borders to "activist thugs" who were going to steal all our elections, rape our women and run off with all our cattle, or something like that.

Either way, the best line came in the comment thread on Paddy's post:

May I instead recommend watching RuPaul's Drag Race 2 on LOGO at 10:00 a.m. Sunday?

Of course, with divas like Charlie Sykes, James Harris and Patrick McIlheran on Incite, it could be easy to confuse the two.

Sykes' No Confidence Vote In Scott Walker

Sykes has been pandering to Scott Walker for the past seven years. Recently we found out why, namely because Charlie's boss is endorsing him.

When Neumann decided to enter the race, Sykes bemoaned the fact that he was running for governor and not against Russ Feingold.

Now that Governor Doyle has announced that he is not going to seek a third term, the governor's race is wide open and becoming a free for all. One of the latest Republicans that announced an interest in entering is Tim Michels. Sykes is begging him not to get into it.

It sure says something about Walker's chances when one of his biggest supporters doesn't have faith in his ability to win.