One Week to Go....

It's getting so I can't watch any of our local news channels (Channels 9, 7 or 13) because the negative ads seem almost constant...Even worse...the nasty ads are starting to show up on cable ,CNN, MSNBC, and THE HORROR, THE HORROR IT'S EVEN ON THE WEATHER CHANNEL. I'll never be able to watch Sharon Resultan describe the "west coast weather" again without thinking of Green's nasty little distortion about Doyle. (by the way....Sharon Resulatan's first "gig" as a TV weather person was at WSAU (Channel 7) in Wausau...over 20 years ago) edited at 5:13....blogger "unbuggered" and picture is up....

back to politics......

There's a new poll out from U W Research that confirms what the St Norbert Poll showed last week...Doyle ahead of Green by double digits....MOE +/- 4%. Let's see Green go into full denial spin on this one...

Amy Sue seems to be faring quite well...even among some of my ...ummmmmmm....conservative ...friends...
Interestingly enough, it isn't because of her stance on concealed carry...they just don't like her opponent. Fair warning: this is truly anecedotal evidence and not scientific....Democrats seem to know the difference.

Saw Dave Zein on his flag-desecrating motorcycle on Sunday. My "better half" kept me from doing something stupid (probably for the umpteenth time...I think she really does keep score). He was coming out of an event at the Old Armory. The event? Well duhhhhhhhh....it was a gun show!

Keep up the great work folks...one more week to go.....here's a schedule of events from Dave Wille:

Sunday, November 5 (Rapids only)
We have a "knock and drop" lit drop planned in the city. We have three shifts available (9:45-noon, noon-2p.m., 2p.m.-4p.m.). You can work one, two or all shifts. The event will leave and end from our office at the Mall.

Monday, November 6 and Tuesday, November 7 (Rapids and Marshfield)
Get out the vote phoning will be done at both sites. We currently have three phones at each site. Shifts available on Monday are 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 1 p.m.- 4 p.m., 4 p.m.-7p.m.. Tuesday shifts are 9 a.m.- noon, noon- 3p.m., 2p.m.-6 p.m., 6p.m.-8 p.m.
We also need folks who can bring in cell phones and call using their phone or simply donate their phone for others to use on these two days.
In addition, we need people to work visibility in both cities on Election Day. This would entail standing with a sign at a pre-determined location during a busy time of the day. Also, we need folks to volunteer to bring in food for workers during the final two days.
We all are tremendously optimistic about our party's chances this year, but it's really now or never in terms of volunteering to help make sure our goals are realized on November 7. Please strongly consider volunteering in some way during the final three days. To volunteer you can reply to this e-mail or call me at 384-8764 or in Rapids call Dede at the office at 712-0273


See you soon....work until you drop...vote as if your life depends on it...because...IT DOES!

The alternative:

to voting is this






Pitchforks and Torches......












and then, of course there's our old friend Mike Lukovich's comic entitled, "Halloween at the Cheney's"















The only real bummer today was opening up the on-line version of the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune and discovering that, after interviewing both candidates before the Editorial Board, they decided to endorse Dave Wessner for Sheriff instead of Tom Reichert. Actually, I was a little bit confused by the editorial because it recited the many fine qualities of both Tom and Dave and then, without apparent explanation, endorsed Wessner.

The worst bummer though was reading the reader's comments on the editorial endorsement...at the time I looked at them there were two...and both were not only negative toward Tom, but downright nasty.....one boardered on bigoted...apparantly slamming Dave's graduation from Assumption...pretty bad...I guess I was hoping for better from this campaign...

I guess the only opinions that will count are those that will be in the form of ballots on election day......

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hehehehe...gotta have a sense of humor

Friend "Jesus General" had some advice for his Republican buddies:


Sure, my beloved Republican party has made a mess of everything it’s touched, but according to Rush, Mr. Hannity, and that guy at the coffee shop who’s always ranting about commies, the Frenchmen in the Democratic Party will be much, much worse. That’s why I want to see Democrats elected this cycle. It’ll prove once and for all that Republicans aren’t the most inept elected officials on the planet. At least, that’s what I hope.

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

Sure hope the repubs take his advice....hope everybody is enjoying this beautiful day....

btw: I am deliberately staying away from the Matt Lauer/Catie Couric take on the Michael J. Fox political advertisement because I don't want to get carried away and use THAT kind of language on the blog.....besides...it would be a long, long, long rant.....e

Friday night blogging...stream of consciousness style

Pouring my second glass of wine.....

11 days to election....the slime is piling up...it's always been this way, hasn't it? Or, is it really worse this year?

Saw Olbermann a few minutes ago...talked about Senator George (Maccaca) Allen's attack on Jim Webb for sexually explicit passages in a novel he wrote about 10 years ago....it's really silly...especially when you consider that our side just laughed and poked fun at Lynn Cheney's novel "Sisters" about two lesbian plains women in the 1870s....and we only did that because Lynn thought that John Kerry went "beyond the pale" by mentioning that Lynn's daughhter, Mary, is a lesbian....

There's the attack on Ron Kind for a mistaken phone call to a telephone sex number....

There's the attack on Micheal J. Fox's commercial supporting stem cell research....Limbaugh mimicking Fox's almost spasmatic motions from his medications...bad, bad stuff really....

Had a nice tak with a Republican in OUR HEADQUARTERS this afternoon. She debated the Marriage amendment and filled me with so much legaleze that my head is still spinning...she's goooooooooddddd....real good.

Tinfoilhat is getting tighter....Eisenhower Battle Group is in the Straits of Hormouz...A HUGE NATO battle fleet has assembled off the coast of Lebanon.....American Naval forces have been put on a "heightened state of alert in Saudi Arabian waters" on fears/rumors/intelligence that Saudi offshore oil facilities are being targeted.....

Anybody here old enough to remember GULF OF TONKIN!?

Bill Maher comes on tonight....might get some comic relief...where's that wine bottle?

Gotta hand it to Dave and LoLo....it's been a helluva week for both of them as far as party work and organization is concerned...topped off with a spur-of-the-moment surprise visit from one of our party luminaries...Barb Lawton...I don't think DeDe's week has been much better...lots of work going down...sometimes I forget to mention that the Rapids group is doing really well.

Dave Obey was in town...didn't stop by...didn't want to "preach to the choir"????

Did I mention I like Shiraz?

I've seen some of the Dave Zein commercials on TV...Dave must be getting pretty desperate...he's attacking the crap out Kreitlow and most of it appears to be crap///

Suder attached himself to Zein...they call themselves a "team" I can't figure out who's linking to whom...they're both waste-oids as far as Im concerned.

Not much out of Juncer in Amy-Sue's race...maybe he did (as he claims) draw the short straw...(evil-grin)....

Sheriff's race? I dunno....I think it's going to be close but I'm enthused about the number of Reichert signs in the Marshfield (repub) neighborhoods.

Governor's race? I find it hard to believe anybody is actually buying the crap that Green is throwing up against the wall. Doyle doesn't seem to be able to "break out of the pack"...he may be a good governor but he doesn't seem to be able to get the message across ...so I'm a bit worried about that race...

Kohl? How much money does it take to win a Senate seat? Never mind. Whatever it is Kohl has it...

So who else is out there? We've already sort of covered Kreitlow, Swiggum, Reichert, Doyle and Kohl...I guess that leave only Falk and Obey...

Obey...I have it on good authority that even God is voting for him....

Falk...better than a poke-in-the-eye with a sharp stick....and several magnitudes better than Van Hollen. I think she's a shoo-in...

Have a nice weekend everybody.....(pouring an last glass of wine)

Why the Debate?

I don't understand this......

There are some Democrats who are saying that they wish the New Jersey Supreme Court decision regarding Civil Unions wouldn't have come out until AFTER THE ELECTION. There is a school of thought that says this decision will only serve to "rile up the Republican base"...and...give them another reason to bash Democrats.

Even though I have often been accused of being a charter member of the TINFOILHAT CLUB, I don't believe for one minute that the timing of the decision was political or orchestrated in any way by Republicans, conservatives or RW, radio talk-show hosts.....I think it was jurisprudence working at its own pace

AND

I don't think any amount of gay-bashing by the Republican base will change things...they have a pedophile on their hands and I don't think they want to be reminded of it....


What do you think?

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HOLY CRAP..BUSH SUPPORTS CIVIL UNIONS!!!

I didn't believe it either....but Tristero over at Digby posted this link from (wait for it...)FOX NEWS in 2004 ..here's the whole article...

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

WASHINGTON — Some conservative groups expressed dismay Tuesday over President Bush's (search) tolerance of state-sanctioned civil unions between gay people — laws that would grant same-sex partners most or all the rights available to married couples.

"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do so," Bush said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC. Bush acknowledged that his position put him at odds with the Republican platform, which opposes civil unions.

"I view the definition of marriage different from legal arrangements that enable people to have rights," said Bush, who has pressed for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage (search). "States ought to be able to have the right to pass laws that enable people to be able to have rights like others."

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search) backs civil unions for gay couples, too. He opposes gay marriage but also opposes the idea of a constitutional ban.
(Story continues below)

Now...The New Jersy Supreme Court just ruled this afternoon that Civil Unions cannot be banned because rights cannot be denied to same-sex couples...

Paraphrased by Tristero:

The court found no fundamental right to same-sex marriage, but found that unequal dispensation of rights and benefits were contrary to the constitution. That sounds like something old St. McCain, who has flipped flop more than a dying carp on this issue, agrees with. The NJ legislature will have to find some way to profer equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples. Unless it decides to, the state will not be obligated to perform any marriage ceremonies. They could decide that it's a simple form that must be filled out and notarized. Churches will have to decide if they want to perform ceremonies or not, just as they do today, and the state has nothing to say about it --- just as it doesn't today. All this amounts to is equality under the law.

In other words, the Wisconsin "Protection of Marriage Act" is probably just as unconstitutional as the laws of New Jersey.....This should be viewed as a great victory for our friends at FAIR WISCONSIN....

Congrats to Linda and Lolo

We're very proud of our Wood County Ladies...last year we had one nominee for the Eleanor Roosevelt Awards and this year we had TWO....and if this campaign season is any indication, we'll have several for next year also...

Our ladies were sent to the awards ceremony at the Concourse Hotel in Madison where they got to "hobknob" with a lot of Democratic Party luminaries including Joe Weineke, Tammy Baldwin and of course, our own Lt Governor, Barb Lawton. Here's a pic of the two happy ladies with Barb...

Here's Tammy Baldwin: