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Related: About this forumWisconsin: 2013 Election Results Foretells a Day of Reckoning for Walker’s Fringe Agenda
http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/2013-election-results-foretells-day-reckoning-walker-s-fringe-agBig shocker: The vast majority of American voters dont think that birth control pills are abortificants that should be banned, or that gay marriage is in any way comparable to pedophilia and incest.
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Although Scott Walker is a Frankensteins monster combo of the far-right fringe ideas of Todd Akin, Ken Cuccinnelli, Christine ODonnell and Rick Santorum, he has successfully hidden from the public his membership in the lunatic fringe and continues to come off to most as the affable boy next door.
But make no mistake that Scott Walker has his own goofy O'Donnellesque claims that there is no separation of church and state, has drawn Santorumesque comparisons between gay marriage and pedophilia / incest and, like Todd Akin, doesn't think twice about forcing a woman who has been raped to carry the consequent pregnancy to term.
As the nation crawls out of a recession, results in Virginia clearly show that, while voters are still primarily focused on job creation, social issues are returning to their minds when they go into the voting booth. That wasnt the case in 2010, when Walker was elected, and during the 2012 recall, Wisconsin Dems didnt make social issues part of their anti-Walker argument. Clearly, that is going to change in 2014. Democrats have signaled that they will take on social issues in upcoming campaigns, including the 2014 Wisconsin governors race. The challenge for Wisconsins Democratic nominee will be to combine the jobs message and the social issues message against Walker into one sharp point: Walker has focused on a war against women and implementing his fringe, far-right agenda, at the expense of a focus on job creation.
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Although Scott Walker is a Frankensteins monster combo of the far-right fringe ideas of Todd Akin, Ken Cuccinnelli, Christine ODonnell and Rick Santorum, he has successfully hidden from the public his membership in the lunatic fringe and continues to come off to most as the affable boy next door.
But make no mistake that Scott Walker has his own goofy O'Donnellesque claims that there is no separation of church and state, has drawn Santorumesque comparisons between gay marriage and pedophilia / incest and, like Todd Akin, doesn't think twice about forcing a woman who has been raped to carry the consequent pregnancy to term.
As the nation crawls out of a recession, results in Virginia clearly show that, while voters are still primarily focused on job creation, social issues are returning to their minds when they go into the voting booth. That wasnt the case in 2010, when Walker was elected, and during the 2012 recall, Wisconsin Dems didnt make social issues part of their anti-Walker argument. Clearly, that is going to change in 2014. Democrats have signaled that they will take on social issues in upcoming campaigns, including the 2014 Wisconsin governors race. The challenge for Wisconsins Democratic nominee will be to combine the jobs message and the social issues message against Walker into one sharp point: Walker has focused on a war against women and implementing his fringe, far-right agenda, at the expense of a focus on job creation.
Squatty stands tall for right-wing extremism in the clip, and points out that women in Wisconsin "never talk about" abortion.
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Wisconsin: 2013 Election Results Foretells a Day of Reckoning for Walker’s Fringe Agenda (Original Post)
Scuba
Nov 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)1. Scotty I can see your future: Orange jump suit and perp walk!
unionthug777
(740 posts)3. ooohhhhhhhhhhh..
how i hope so !!!!!!
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)2. Beat it, homonculus
ewagner
(18,964 posts)5. I don't want to go too far...
by predicting his indictment.
but there is a chance we can defeat this dipwad....
but it's only a chance...
unless we work our A$$e$ off in 2014 to overcome the ignorance and avalanche of negative ads that are going to be funded by every RIGHT WING PAC known to man and a few more that haven't even been formed yet.
...as was famously said by Hans Solo..."Don't get cocky kid"
Scuba
(53,475 posts)6. It would sure help if the DPW hadn't endorsed a right-wing candidate.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)7. ...am I being unrealistic?
am I "WAITING FOR SUPERMAN"?
maybe I'm being too idealistic....
Scuba
(53,475 posts)8. Not by my standards. Finding a true progressive looks like the best way to win, to me.