It's official! Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, David Prosser, RETAINS his seat!

[MCWAY]

Perhaps that might explain why HP is down right now, as the libs may be doing that weeping and teeth-gnashing thing!!!

How much money did the left and their union cronies sink into this one? Kloppenberg declared victory with a UNOFFICIAL 204-vote lead (how STUPID is that?).

But, the rug got pulled from underneath them; the votes are certified. And Prosser wins. Now, Kloppenberg has until tonight (5 p.m.) to request a recount, given the margin of victory. But, after two weeks of canvassing and re-canvassing the votes, the odds that a recount will swing things in her favor are SLIM and NONE (and SLIM is heading for his car, to go home).

[Soul Crusher]

Straw told me this election would be a harbinger of things to come.  Correct! 

[MCWAY]

Straw told me this election would be a harbinger of things to come.  Correct! 

I take that back! HP is up. But, I can't look at my own account for some reason.

[Soul Crusher]

I am banned from that site for trolling a michelle obama love fest.  At first I tried being coy about it, but eventually I just unloaded on that slob and got all the adoring sycophants up in arms.

Yes it was worth the ban. Lol.

[MCWAY]

I am banned from that site for trolling a michelle obama love fest.  At first I tried being coy about it, but eventually I just unloaded on that slob and got all the adoring sycophants up in arms.

Yes it was worth the ban. Lol.

I got banned from the San Francisco Chronicle for pointing out to them that their predictions of how easily Prop. 8 would be defeated wasn't quite sound.

And, I also predicted that the CA Supreme Court would find Prop. 8 a mere amendment and leave it intact by a 5-2 margin (it was actually 6-1).

Then, they really got miffed at me when I showed them how racist and bigoted the white gays were toward black people (even black homosexuals, namely lesbian black activist, Jasmyne Cannick, who told of all the hate-mail she got, after CNN and the LA Times reported that blacks overwhelmingly supported Prop. .

The last topic I recalled covering, which also exposed their racism and bigotry, was a single black woman in the Army facing charges for refusing to deploy, after her mother bailed on her at the last minute, leaving no one to watch her child.

They accused her of being a lazy black slut, who saw the Army as another form of welfare.

[MCWAY]

For some reasons, only the articles in HP are up. There are no responses and I still can't logon to the site. There's some "DNS Failure", of sorts. A crash, perhaps from all the wailing?

[dario73]

Very good news. Onward to destroying public employee unions.

[Straw Man]

Straw told me this election would be a harbinger of things to come.  Correct! 

it still will be

when he ran in 2001 there wasn't even an opposition candidate

this time he "won" by a small margin with the help of millions of dollars from the Koch Brothers against an unknown opponent who had no money

[MCWAY]

it still will be

when he ran in 2001 there wasn't even an opposition candidate

this time he "won" by a small margin with the help of millions of dollars from the Koch Brothers against an unknown opponent who had no money

HAD NO MONEY?? PLEASE!!!

The union bubbas poured MILLIONS into Kloppenberg's campaign (SEIU, AFL-CIO, and other left-winged schills almost too numerous to count).

The lefties (Kloppenberg included) simply popped the bubbly a little too soon, only to get embarrassed when the numbers were double-checked.

[240 is Back]

he was polling 30 points up, just 3 months ago?

And he won by .001%?

Yes, bragging is definitely warranted here. 

[Kazan]

"It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning"

Dominic Toretto

[MCWAY]

he was polling 30 points up, just 3 months ago?

And he won by .001%?

Yes, bragging is definitely warranted here.  

The bottom line is that he's still in his seat. And the left-winged goofies are LIVID, after all the money they sunk into Kloppenberg, with all of the acting a fool they did. In fact, they were talking smack, claiming that Prosser was as good as gone.

But, to quote Justice Prosser, "A funny thing happened to me on the way to my concession speech. The people of Wisconsin told me to tear it up and go back to work"

[MCWAY]

"It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning"

Dominic Toretto

AMEN!!!

We’ll need a few months - or years - to fully assess the Wisconsin situation, of course.  But on first analysis I think that the situation can be accurately described as follows: the Democrats needed to win; a tie would go to the Republicans.  The Left is undoubtedly going to work off of the narrative that coming close shows their power, or that they at least put a scare in the Republicans, or that this is an excellent start to the next set of electoral battles - in short, the sort of things that people who get beaten in elections tell themselves in order to keep their spirits up*.  But the truth is, the Democrats were beaten… and they needed to win this battle more than the Republicans did.

You see, a victory would have not have supported the Democratic narrative about the current state of affairs in Wisconsin; support was never really necessary to keep their base in line.  What it would have done is given that narrative some actual teeth.  Put another way… I could care less if a bunch of Democratic-friendly online sorts go around muttering about how Scott Walker’s policies cause poverty, fascism, and halitosis; but I do care quite a bit if they somehow manage to get that muttering to matter when it comes to opposing Scott Walker’s policies.  The Democrats just tried to do just that.  They did not quite succeed.

And close does not count.


*: People who win elections instead tell themselves 'Hey.  We won!' - which does a much better job at encouraging morale.



http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/04/15/it-is-over-david-prosser-won-his-supreme-court-race/

[240 is Back]

it's still a win.  but it's the gloating by the winner that looks bad.  barely winning a seat you've always won by 30 miles isn't something to brag about.  and if a 30 point margin is won by less than a point, it doesn't bode well for 2012 races which are much closer than 30 points.

But hey, let's celebrate.  we should have an 'obamacare is dead' poster somewhere we can erase and use, right?

[Kazan]

it's still a win.  but it's the gloating by the winner that looks bad.  barely winning a seat you've always won by 30 miles isn't something to brag about.  and if a 30 point margin is won by less than a point, it doesn't bode well for 2012 races which are much closer than 30 points.

But hey, let's celebrate.  we should have an 'obamacare is dead' poster somewhere we can erase and use, right?

Every dark cloud has a silver lining, to bad your the dark cloud

[MCWAY]

it's still a win.  but it's the gloating by the winner that looks bad.  barely winning a seat you've always won by 30 miles isn't something to brag about.  and if a 30 point margin is won by less than a point, it doesn't bode well for 2012 races which are much closer than 30 points.

But hey, let's celebrate.  we should have an 'obamacare is dead' poster somewhere we can erase and use, right?

If the gloating by the winner "looks bad", what do you say about the bleating of the loser (the usual "We wuz robbed" routine we get from the liberals)?

The biggest (and most often used) excuse we get from the lefties as to why they got beat up at the midterms is that "we weren't organized; our people stayed home!!".

But, this time, they were "FIRED UP!!" They were motivated; they were energized ("Tell me what Democracy looks like; THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!!!"). Millions of dollars, union cronies flooding the state, Obama putting his 10 cents into the matter.....all to get Kloppenberg onto that court with the end-goal of overturning Walker's collective-bargaining bill........AND THEY STILL LOST!!!!

What it means is that the liberals can get all their goons in lockstep, pull all these shenanigans, yet still taste defeat. And, this is happening in state after state after state, even with the lefties acting a fool.

[MCWAY]

[Straw Man]

HAD NO MONEY?? PLEASE!!!
The union bubbas poured MILLIONS into Kloppenberg's campaign (SEIU, AFL-CIO, and other left-winged schills almost too numerous to count).

The lefties (Kloppenberg included) simply popped the bubbly a little too soon, only to get embarrassed when the numbers were double-checked.

both took 400k in public financing

let me guess,

you got your info from from the same place that this guy got his info

And Bob Dohnal, publisher of the Wisconsin-based Conservative Digest, circulated an email on April 7 saying conservatives were outspent 10 to 1. He told us the figure was based on information "bandied around the Internet and the talk shows for weeks."

Let me know if you want to compare who spent their money to lie and smear their opponent

see if you can guess who wins that comparison  (hint - it's the party known for saying things that are not intended to be factual statements)

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/apr/10/charlie-sykes/charlie-sykes-says-joanne-kloppenburg-had-3-1-adva/

The two tallies we found both showed a big advantage for Prosser’s side -- not Kloppenburg’s.The first was a report -- released on election day -- by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School that looked at broadcast TV spending by outside groups. It is the only organization we could find that attempts to put a hard number on such spending by outside groups.

The left-leaning think tank/advocacy group relies on TV satellite data collected by TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. It says its numbers are estimates that may underestimate the precise amount of actual expenditures.

The Brennan study was reported widely by Wisconsin and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the Journal Sentinel.

It found there had been  $2.2 million spent by four conservative groups through election day vs. $1.36 million by one liberal group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee.

(The conservative groups are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s issues mobilization council, Citizens for a Strong America, Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express).

That’s an $840,000 advantage for the conservative side.

The Brennan study also was picked up on WisPolitics.com, a widely cited online digest. The website added some of its own reporting and wrote on election day that pro-Prosser groups outspent the Kloppenburg side, $2.5 million to $1.9 million. That’s a somewhat smaller $600,000 advantage.[/quote]

[240 is Back]

LOL @ Mcway's pic! LOL

[Dos Equis]

lol at the liberal lapdogs trying to spin this.   

[MCWAY]

both took 400k in public financing

let me guess,

you got your info from from the same place that this guy got his info


Let me know if you want to compare who spent their money to lie and smear their opponent

see if you can guess who wins that comparison  (hint - it's the party known for saying things that are not intended to be factual statements)

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/apr/10/charlie-sykes/charlie-sykes-says-joanne-kloppenburg-had-3-1-adva/

The two tallies we found both showed a big advantage for Prosser’s side -- not Kloppenburg’s.The first was a report -- released on election day -- by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School that looked at broadcast TV spending by outside groups. It is the only organization we could find that attempts to put a hard number on such spending by outside groups.

The left-leaning think tank/advocacy group relies on TV satellite data collected by TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. It says its numbers are estimates that may underestimate the precise amount of actual expenditures.

The Brennan study was reported widely by Wisconsin and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the Journal Sentinel.

It found there had been  $2.2 million spent by four conservative groups through election day vs. $1.36 million by one liberal group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee.

(The conservative groups are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s issues mobilization council, Citizens for a Strong America, Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express).

That’s an $840,000 advantage for the conservative side.

The Brennan study also was picked up on WisPolitics.com, a widely cited online digest. The website added some of its own reporting and wrote on election day that pro-Prosser groups outspent the Kloppenburg side, $2.5 million to $1.9 million. That’s a somewhat smaller $600,000 advantage.[/quote]

You're late to the party. I know that Prosser got more money. $4.5 million was spend, $2.7 million to Prosser; $1.8 million to Kloppenberg (that's roughly a 60-40 split).

The point, of course, is that your claim of Kloppenberg having no money was woefully false.

[Straw Man]

The left-leaning think tank/advocacy group relies on TV satellite data collected by TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. It says its numbers are estimates that may underestimate the precise amount of actual expenditures.

The Brennan study was reported widely by Wisconsin and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the Journal Sentinel.

It found there had been  $2.2 million spent by four conservative groups through election day vs. $1.36 million by one liberal group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee.

(The conservative groups are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s issues mobilization council, Citizens for a Strong America, Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express).

That’s an $840,000 advantage for the conservative side.

The Brennan study also was picked up on WisPolitics.com, a widely cited online digest. The website added some of its own reporting and wrote on election day that pro-Prosser groups outspent the Kloppenburg side, $2.5 million to $1.9 million. That’s a somewhat smaller $600,000 advantage.[/quote]


You're late to the party. I know that Prosser got more money. $4.5 million was spend, $2.7 million to Prosser; $1.8 million to Kloppenberg (that's roughly a 60-40 split).

The point, of course, is that your claim of Kloppenberg having no money was woefully false.

she had so little money when that her signs where handmade.  The money only started to come in once her graassroots campaign took hold and Prroosers corporatd patron started to realize he might lose and started spending big money to smear Kloppenburg

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/06/135174740/the-nation-kloppenburg-reflects-spirit-of-wisconsin

Kloppenburg began her campaign for the state Supreme Court as an all-but-certain loser, a political neophyte challenging entrenched Justice David Prosser.

As a member of the 4-3 conservative majority on the high court, Prosser was positioned to secure the major endorsements, enjoy the support of free-spending special interest groups and dominate the race. In the mid-February primary, which came just days after Walker announced his anti-union project, Prosser defeated Kloppenburg by 30 points.

But on the same night that Prosser was coasting to that primary victory, one of the first major demonstrations against Walker's bill drew 8,000 people to the state Capitol in Madison. Those numbers grew to 20,000, to 50,000, to 80,000, to 100,000 and ultimately to 125,000 at a mass rally several weeks ago. The Wisconsin movement became a national and, ultimately, an international phenomenon.

Slowly, it began to dawn on the protesters that the April 5 Supreme Court election was an opportunity to mount not only protests in the street but protests at the polls.

Handmade "Kloppenburg" signs began to appear at the rally. The candidate, an assistant attorney general, was running a campaign with such a low budget that it could not afford printed signs, so her supporters made their own.

They also started to expose Prosser as a rigid partisan who had brought his Republican politics to what is supposed to be a nonpartisan bench. A former leader of legislative Republicans who served as Assembly Speaker and mentored a young legislator named Scott Walker, Prosser's reelection campaign had begun with an announcement that he planned to make the court a "complement" to the Walker administration and Republican majorities in the state Assembly and Senate.

Kloppenburg promised to serve as an independent jurist who would uphold the rule of law, rather than promote the governor's agenda. That was more than enough for the unions and their allies, which embraced the Kloppenburg campaign — along with the hope of grabbing majority control of the court away from Walker-allied conservatives...

Her candidacy became a focus of the movement that had developed to oppose Walker's agenda and, as Election Day approached, the impossible run began to look like the real thing. Prosser still had all his advantages, but Kloppenburg had the masses. Outside groups poured money into the contest, with the majority of it going to Prosser, a Tea Party favorite endorsed by Sarah Palin. But Kloppenburg had plenty of support, especially at the grassroots, where the handmade signs went up all over the state.

[MCWAY]

She hardly had "so little money" Both sides has millions poured into their campaigns.

At the end of the day, Kloppenberg got beat, pure and simple. And this race was HUGE, because the lefties were counting on Kloppenberg to be the tie-breaker to kill Walker's law.

That's not going to happen; the rest is just window-dressing and excuse-making.

[dario73]

Stupid liberals. Bunch of sore losers.

So I guess the next time a conservative loses an election, he or she can claim they lost ONLY because they were outspent.

Losers always make excuses and blame others.

[Soul Crusher]

They always claim "we didnt get our message out" 


Hey you stupid left wing fools - YOUR MESSAGE IS YOUR PROBLEM!