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By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 6th, 2012 at 09:08 AM  | 

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It’s often frustrating how we are forced to go to battle with the left on the bandwagon of flaccid and uninspiring Republicans that lack core principles.  That was not the case last night when Scott Walker won his decisive victory against the best efforts of the union thugs in Wisconsin.  Scott Walker is a man who sought power not for power’s sake, but to implement the free market reforms that he campaigned for.  That sort of intrepid decisiveness is what inspired a following of savvy Tea Party activists.  That is what made all the difference.

Only a few months ago, conventional wisdom dictated that Scott Walker would be sacrificed on the altar of Big Labor as they were prepared to throw their biggest punch ever – a punch worth $21 million.  At the very minimum, it was clear that Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch would be replaced by a union-friendly thug who would act as a thorn in the side of Walker for the rest of his term.

The actual results?  After voters saw that Walker delivered on his promises, they gave him more support than in 2010.  He won by 7 points, carrying 60 of 72 counties.  He also won 36% of union households and 54% of independents.  Kleefisch won by a similar margin.  And that’s with same-day registration that is able to spawn “118% turnout” in urban areas!

People often wonder whether we can beat the juggernaut of Democrat machine politics.  Based upon historic results, there seems to be conflicting data.  The reality is not an enigma.  It takes three elements; a committed and principled Republican, money, and ground game.  We had all three in Wisconsin and we were able to crush the union machine with its full prowess.

Remember that Walker is the first governor to survive a recall effort.  The fact that the opposition is able to mount a successful petition drive usually indicates that the incumbent is unpopular enough with a lot of people.  That was unfortunately the case in Wisconsin too.  There are enough dependent voters who are gullible to the misinformation propagated by the media/union complex.  They were enough to constitute a large minority.  But the Tea Party turned out to be a stronger force.

Yet, the Tea Party only mobilized for a man with the principled integrity of Scott Walker.  Walker needed the Tea Party, but the Tea Party needed a candidate like Walker to support.  If we are looking to replicate this success in other states, it is this model – the symbiotic relationship between the Tea Party and a devoted, inspiring conservative – that will win the day.

The Tea Party is ready to roll.  Thanks to their dedicated activists and high tech GOTV tools like American Majority Action’s Gravity, they can replicate the model is all states that are relevant to winning a majority in November.  AM Action, The Wisconsin Recall Action Fund, and many other Tea Party organizations performed superbly on the ground.  They did so because there the Tea Party was actually represented on the ballot.

They are ready to take the show on the road for November.   The question is do we have the candidates – from president on down to Congress – to inspire the minions of liberty-loving patriots?

Cross-posted from The Madison Project

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  • Kyle-MI

    Despite all the hysterics from the left, my impression of Walker (from his own words and his campaign) is that he is not an in-your-face type of person. He is firm on his convictions, but he did not demean his opponents. (Of course, his opponents did plenty of self demeaning.) Walker seems genuinely gracious.

    This is not the type of false humbleness that the left so often demands of the GOP. When the left complains about divisiveness, they are more often focused on issues and requiring conservatives to give up their principles.

    Am I wrong?

  • kentucky

    How about higher-ed reform?! Now that we’ve taken away their ill-gotten union money, lets go after the ivory towers of liberal intellectualism. They, like the union thugs, cannot exist on their current scale without outrageous market distortions (i.e.; consumers with limitless access to “free money” in the form of student loans).

    Go to your nearest public university and I bet you will see construction everywhere. The economy has been stagnant for 10 years but college campuses keep expanding. It is a microcosm of the left’s worldview of the ever expanding state. Meanwhile the actual quality of education at these institutions is incredibly low. Professors work 13 hours a week; students devote 16 hours a week to their studies. A nice little insulated welfare state where dependent inhabitants can be easily worked into a froth of protest in favor of more government.

    This should be next.

    • edintexas

      I was unable to find a readily understandable data collation for US economic activity from 2002 to date. As you apparently have a source showing a stagnant economy for each month/year for that period, could you furnish the URL, or cite the source of the information that the US economy has been stagnant for the past decade?

      Thanks.

      • kentucky

        that I was writing a response to a blog about higher-ed, and not penning a peer-reviewed academic article necessitating footnotes for every fact.

        But since you asked, and apparently are incapable of using google or perceiving events around you:

        http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/06/a_lost_decade_f.html

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html

        http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LGCyqBBW1lw/Tf91N9ashbI/AAAAAAAAACk/76EU9WY6tRY/s1600/GDP%2Bs%2Bince%2B1930.gif

        You’re welcome.

    • http://www.libertylives.org madnorskie

      I’m not sure higher ed reform should be the be the next focus for Governor Walker (Right to Work legislation would get my vote) I definitely agree with you about the construction on college campuses.

      I live in Madison. Right now there are more construction cranes working in Madison than there are in Chicago. “What construction projects are require all those cranes?” you might ask; the Epic campus is using quite a few, but the vast majority are putting up sparkling new buildings all over the downtown UW-Madison campus. That’s the same institution that anti-Walker protestors claimed would be crippled because of Gov. Walker’s education cuts. In the past ten years the school has all new dorms, athletic facilities, business school, science buildings, student unions, and on and on. New buildings are still going up and more are planned.

      I would love to see an ad highlighting all the construction and showing parents where all those tuition dollars are going, because they are certainly not going towards their kid’s education.

  • harlan

    …they can’t cheat”, is a meme that we heard frequently in recent weeks.

    I beg to differ. I will guarantee that “they” still cheated their lil’ union, student, illegal immigrant and dead asses off.

    I think that Walker and the legislature should do everything in their power to uncover as much of this as possible before the Left’s next big opportunity in November.

    NO MORE SAME DAY REGISTRATION! ENACT VOTER I.D.!

    • Kyle-MI

      Unless they find another activist judge to delay it again.

      I don’t think they can kill same day registration by Nov. From reports around the web, it sounds like it is heavily used. I am not sure what the general support for it is in WI. It would be interesting to see a poll on it. I think you would have to make a lot stronger case against it before it can be repealed. Maybe they could implement some type of blind study to determine how much fraud there is?

  • evilbloggerlady
    • commonsenseobserver

      For belonging to such a petty and miserable party.

    • edintexas

      Not the O’Brien Conan either. If there is an inherent joke, I guess I’m just not getting it.

      • gekster

        below.

    • gekster

      It shows lefties go on emotion and not thier brains.

  • major

    There are some real in-your-face ads on my page for this Red State post.
    It is urging us to push for H.R. 639/ S328.
    Well, I need to look those up, while I know they have SOMETHING to do with Chinese currency. But deeper down, with a banner containing a hard hat and wind turbines…voila, I come across the United Steel Workers promotion of this (oops, I mean the Alliance for American Manufacturing).
    Now, I am certainly not against unions or their workers, but like many, I AM AGAINST THEIR BOSSES, and they are the ones with the money that pays for those ads (which are misleading in representation).
    I also have a great PDF magazine that shows the USW’s leaders’ undying loyalty to Communism and tear-jerking loyalty to Obama.
    Trumka is there too.
    You may want to look into this, and who advertises on your site, that makes its way to my email, and almost caused me to sign their form.
    Who knows, maybe it’s a good bill???, but my guess, it has some pro union or Communist agenda, big boss benefits behind it…..
    I am about ready to call it propaganda…
    I understand the money to be made advertising here, but please put your money where your mouth is, and maybe tweek some ad preferences, PLEASE!
    Of course, the transparency of those ads, after digging for more, gives me good reason to expose this elsewhere.
    I also despise how their workers are duped into paying for promotions most would probably not promote themselves, if they knew the endgame?

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      It is pure protectionism and all unions are now, and have been for a long time the enemies of the public good.

      • commonsenseobserver

        In any case, I think this should be put on hold until after the election, to see how a new administration will act and avoid tying its hands.

  • codenametimna

    Scott Walker’s win was a huge victory for Wisconsin and for America. Sarah Palin summed it up beautifully when she said Obama’s “goose is cooked.”

    Wisconsin is undeniably purple but in November it could very well become brilliantly red for the first time since 1984 as far as presidential elections go. Scott Walker is to be highly commended for taking on the tough issues. He stood on principle and he was rewarded in the end. Scott Walker saw the ‘big picture’ while public sector Unions saw only themselves and what they could “get” from the government and the state, instead of trying to salvage their state for the good of all Wisconsinites and future generations.

    Which goes to show you that most liberals are basically only in it for themselves… and to hell with other people and the country and doing what’s right in the sight of God or their fellow man. Self-centered and egotistical, maniacal activists, hell-bent on what they alone can “extort” out of the system for themselves, and by god, if you don’t agree with them, you can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. And to prove it they get on Twitter after Scott Walker’s magnanimous victory and call for his death by execution or any other means possible. Which if AG Eric Himpton Holder Jr. had his manhood intact, he would thoroughly investigate the death threats against Scott Walker and hold the perpetrators accountable. Yeah right! Eric Holder most likely won’t do a thing.

    Just like he and his in-Justice Department didn’t do diddly when the New Black Panthers ‘brandished’ a weapon and engaged in voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential election. Eric Holder is “one of them” so don’t expect him to do squat when it comes to enforcing the law against blacks or other minorities, or for that matter Union thugs either no doubt. Eric Holder has already stated publicly the in-Justice Department won’t prosecute offenses when the offenses are committed by blacks in particular, or other minorities, and no doubt that includes Union thugs as well. Obama and Holder are obviously very, very pro Union and Obama has given Unions billions of taxpayer dollars toward their infamous cause. Which is one of the main reasons chaos and upheaval are occurring all across America by the Occupy anarchists and their Union thug cohorts; which Obama and Eric Holder and other progressive Democrats fully support to this day. And why it is the country is so divided, and indeed, why the United States of America is going to hell-in-a-hand-basket both morally and economically, under Obama’s socialist policies and failed presidency. Obama and Eric Holder are primarily the main instigators of many of the tragedies unfolding across the country. When the president of the United States and his right hand man (Eric Holder), call evil good and good evil, you know the country is headed in the wrong direction and for those very same reasons, why America is currently headed off a cliff both morally and economically and why it is the American people are suffering so severely under this incompetent White House administration. As the result of Barack Obama and Eric Holder’s horrendous actions (and/or in-actions) the United States is currently in the process of going bankrupt, both morally and economically.

    “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2 NIV

    Scott Walker’s win was glorious and the people of Wisconsin should be very proud of his leadership and his selfless courage to take on the big issues.

  • toothpick

    If it weren’t for the fact that President Romney will be the incumbent running for re-election, we’d be hearing now about calls for Scott Walker to run for President in 2016.

    So, let me be the first to suggest (only somewhat tongue-in-cheek): Scott Walker for President in 2020, after President Romney completes his second term!!