My column for the Washington County Daily News is online and in print. Here’s a part:
After only a year of Democrats running Washington, the country is on fire. Our borders are open, we are seeing the highest inflation in 40 years, grocery store shelves are sparse, violent crime is shattering our peace, COVID is raging more than ever, and America has not been this weak on the international stage since Grover Cleveland sat in the Oval Office. With all indications that this year will see massive Republican victories at the ballot box in an attempt to reclaim our nation, Wisconsin has two very strong contenders to lead the ballot.
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It is easy to tell when a conservative is making a difference when the media continually smears him as “controversial.” Liberals like their Republicans to be docile and Senator Johnson is anything but that. Wisconsinites have been well-served by Senator Johnson and he has earned another term.
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On the issues, Kleefisch is ardently pro-life, an enthusiastic supporter of school choice, defender of the 2nd Amendment, and supports, and is supported by, law enforcement. Kleefisch is exactly the kind of smart conservative communicator that Wisconsin needs after four years of dreary malaise under Tony Evers.
Ron Johnson and Scott Walker after his first term have been the only Republicans I have voted for recently. I will be adding Kleefisch to the short list. I have liked what she has stood for, though I could probably do without the hard line pro-life. It is not that I am not pro-life, but I believe there are exceptions and lines to be drawn that neither side wants to talk about concerning any law. All politicians just want to keep it perpetually in the spotlight as a divider of people, intentionally never to be resolved.
Law building and de-construction concerning abortion is one of the most consistent dividers of US citizens of the last half century. Making it a major platform issue shows a general weakness in the rest of your platform in my opinion. You will get a guaranteed base of voters for it and you will alienate a guaranteed base of voters and those bases cross party lines. I think it is worth informing the voters of your belief on abortion, but not worth it to run hard on the issue.
Just a few days ago rojo said:
“People decide to have families and become parents. That’s something they need to consider when they make that choice,” Johnson told local Wisconsin TV station WKBT. “I’ve never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children.”
Somebody should have tipped him off that trump created a special order, above and beyond what the law prescribes, to spend extra $$ on his kids and families security after he left office. As of mid September 2021 we the taxpayers have spent an additional $1.7 million on the kids.
Looks like rojo is ok providing security for the family of a self-proclaimed billionaire, yet opposed to providing the security of food and shelter for the children of those less fortunate.
Wisconsin, we can do better.
Hey Queen Lying Karen Le Roi, all kids of president’s get Secret Security protection after the president leaves office.
Chelsea Clinton, the Bush twins, the Obama girls and now President Trump’s kids.
And the Trump’s kids actually need it because there deranged liberals like yourself who love to put a bullet inside the tge Trump kids.
Have the authorities taken your guns away yet? Cannot have some as stupid as you to be around guns or even marshmallows because you could harm someone or yourself.
>Somebody should have tipped him off that trump created a special order, above and beyond what the law prescribes, to spend extra $$ on his kids and families security after he left office.
That’s a lie. I suggest you fact check yourself dummy.
Well j, several dozen sources, including the former trump administration, say it’s true. If you have facts to the contrary, please share. I’m always willing to learn something new.
Provide a link, Lying Karen Le Roi.
Yeah, I found a link , and yes he did this and yes, he did do this as did W Bush, Clinton, and Obama.
Plus, when you have crackpots like yourself and other Trump Derangement Syndrome a-holes, like yourself,, they did need the protection.
LeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeRoy’s looking at all those TeeeeeeeeeeeVeeeeeeeeee commercials and thinking that they are the whole truth.
Says a lot about LeeeeeeeeeeRoy’s acuity.
Well post a couple then Dummy.
Since I’m better than you in every way. I’ll go first.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-service-protection-extended-trump-family-members-staffers/story?id=75407711
>It was unclear if the orders to extend the protection arrangements had come from Trump himself. As a matter of practice, the U.S. Secret Service does not discuss protective operations or protectees, a Secret Service spokesperson told ABC News.
>Retired Secret Service agent Don Mihalek said that the decision of whether to extend protection is often “threat based,” but that every additional protectee the Secret Service takes on requires additional manpower from the agency.
Certainly if there was ever a president and the direct family that needed additional protection of threats… Its Sir Trump. Your party and their violent and terroristic ways are the worst in human history.
Totally agree, Jason, and I don’t begrudge Obama, Clinton, W Bush and Trump. There are a lot of crazy people like Queen Lying Karen Le Roi who have so much hate in them that it would not surprise me that if they don’t have a strong security staff, like the Secret Service, people would like to harm then.
Especially, lunatic liberals who have gone after Republican congressmen violently.
The other thing is that this would have had to been cleared by the White House lawyers, the Secret Service and Inspector General. And if anybody had a problem with it, they couod have someone sue and have the judiciary look at it.
Just another nothing burger from Queen Lying Karen Le Roi.
Le Chatte Du Nord complains: “Looks like rojo is ok providing security for the family of a self-proclaimed billionaire, yet opposed to providing the security of food and shelter for the children of those less fortunate. ”
Typical asinine liberal argument from Nortamous. “Food security”, where direct physical threats equate to Twinkies.
And not a peep about all the Bidenomics inflation and empty shelves.
BTW, as of this morning Bablin’ “Shut Down The Virus” Joe has now killed 55,000 more people than Trump.
MJM, not to mention that more American’s would vote for some generic politician with an R after their name than vote for Joe Muddled-Brain Biden.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/01/26/more-americans-want-a-gop-president-over-biden-in-2024-but-not-if-its-trump-or-his-rivals-poll-finds/?sh=13848e73e8da
See Leroy, I can source my facts, which proves that I’m better than you. You dummy.
Hey Fuck-Stain Leroy, we’re still waiting for your sources. You asked for mine, it was supplied…. am I really that much better than you? No shock here that your incapable of anything more than a trollbait shit stain. Maybe you should sign your dad up for some online dating… I’m sure there’s a woman out there willing to give him a child he can love.
Be wary of skewed polls, Jason. The simple questions pollsters ask are quite useless to true meaning.
For example, the simple Q, “Do you approve or disapprove of the job Babblin’ Joe is doing?” can be answered “no” for two completely opposite reasons. 1) no, he’s an imbecile who has screwed up every good thing, 2) no, he hasn’t gotten all our uber liberal ideas entrenched.
The silly “Congress approval?” is one of my faves. Always way out of wack on the negative side, apply the same-answer/opposite-reason and you can see why.
Without actual context the numbers are, well, just a list of numbers.
What is quite humorous, though, about all this “serious” polling is – and it never fails – watching whenever a poll shows favor to a Repub a few days later new polls get published showing the exact opposite. Your link above is one of those. Remember last week when the two or three polls claimed Trump trumping Biden? And right on queue….
Well, Jason Queen Lying Karen Le Roi has a very bad week. Everything he has posted turned to be a lie or an exaggeration of the facts.
But trolls will do what trolls do.
Here’s an example of a USEFUL poll question. (Zogby)
Asked if Biden has “delivered” on campaign promises or “was lying just to get elected,” 45.7% chose lying and 38.2% chose delivering on promises. The rest of the voters were unsure.
Dad, I would have added a third catagory: Does Senile Joe Biden remember any of his campaign promises.
I bet that would have gotten at least 10%
Useful if you believe there are exactly 0 people who support by any means necessary and that all those in the 38.2% don’t recognize a lie when they see it but can pass it off as unimportant because agenda.
The question, if as you say was proposed as “or”, is unbalanced because it glues two completely unattached propositions together. If Zogby wanted accurate answers they would have asked the two separately.
Because both are true.
Yes–but remember, Z is a Lefty pollster
Of course. As are most. Especially any of the NBC/ABC/CBS affiliated. The one linked to in the Forbes article cited by Jason was Politico affiliated. Nothing but A+ there, I betcha. [/snark]
Even so, I have no doubt that in Zogby’s 45.7% there are deep blues happy to admit Biden’s lies and just as happy happy they got him elected.
Ask the right question, get the right answer. And get paid for doing so.
“Just a few days ago rojo said:
“People decide to have families and become parents. That’s something they need to consider when they make that choice,” Johnson told local Wisconsin TV station WKBT. “I’ve never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children.”
Somebody should have tipped him off that trump created a special order, above and beyond what the law prescribes, to spend extra $$ on his kids and families security after he left office. As of mid September 2021 we the taxpayers have spent an additional $1.7 million on the kids.
Looks like rojo is ok providing security for the family of a self-proclaimed billionaire, yet opposed to providing the security of food and shelter for the children of those less fortunate.”
The strawman huckster is at it again. RoJo talking about how Government is constantly pushing more money at families with children and as a proper conservative he said he thinks that having and affording children should be a decision of the parents, not an obligation of the rest if society. Long ago the vast majority agreed that a public educational burden would benefit everyone as we would essentially get ‘better children’ that creates a better society. Fine. But more and more tax breaks, rebates and money back for children every year (inside and outside of education) should not be the intent or purpose of Government. We can have that argument and back when libs knew how think critically, it may have been a good one.
But Le Roi is not one of those. Instead, talking about RoJo’s words he conflates RoJo’s words on Government supported child rearing for everyone (something he should be focused on) with Trump’s special order for safety security, something that RoJo did not vote for or talk about. He basically said RoJo is bad or wrong because Trump ordered more security for his children…WTF??? That is a strawman, the broken logic of a programmed liberal.
We can all do better, Le Roi, by thinking for ourselves. Something that at least the liberal half of the population has no clue how to do.
Try actually thinking about the words of RoJo that you cited and criticize them instead of a Trump act. If you can’t then you are an ignorant fool. If you can, entertain us. And if you see that you were wrong to strawman us again, go ahead and apologize.
Still wasting your time on Little Leroy. He’s an NPC in today’s world Tuerqas…
RoJo talking about how Government is constantly pushing more money at families with children and as a proper conservative he said he thinks that having and affording children should be a decision of the parents, not an obligation of the rest if society.
There’s quite a discussion behind those remarks. Some Eastern European countries are now paying couples to have children because a ‘birth dearth’ is a serious problem for those countries. Without population, they won’t be ‘countries’ after a while. Japan and Italy are trending towards extinction, by the way.
The US has a variety of ‘have babies’ incentives starting with the child deduction, which has moved up and down during my lifetime, depending on the mood of the regime-at-the-time.
RoJo is correct in the context specifically outlined. But he should think carefully about how much/little ‘child incentives’ should be. Of course, he should specify “MARRIED” as part of his policy.
Heh Jason, Tuerqas was one of my favorite PCs…And I know it is pretty much useless to talk to the weasel who just leaves when he is beaten, but I hate straw man arguments and he gets away with it too often. No one here should have even engaged on that dumbass Le Roi comment except to say how stupid and wrong of a comment it was.
Dad29, is paying people other citizen’s money to have children a good societal move? Discounts (child deductions) and free education seems more than enough to me (as in too much). If Government sponsored child bearing is considered the best way to propagate said society, I think the society needs to change or go extinct.
“NPC ” Nonsensical Pervert Communist?
I think the society needs to change or go extinct.
Yah, but the argument over ‘change to what?’ will take too long, so your second option becomes actualized. That’s not fun for the last several dozen survivors. They’ll probably object.
As to your questions: the “left” and the “right” generally agree on what Government should/should not do.
The argument is always over “how much.” Do I think that “free” education costs too much? Yes. But that doesn’t mean that it should not be “free.” Are the tax incentives sufficient? Maybe not. We could go on forever……
Agreed overall, it is just one more ‘where do you draw the line’ arguments.
Except for: “As to your questions: the “left” and the “right” generally agree on what Government should/should not do.”
I don’t think that is true anymore. The left thinks that Government should pretty much be all powerful in practice and their reps are going for exactly that. The right voters do not think that, in general, though I could make a good argument that the Republican reps are not far behind their lefty “opposites” in wanting all the power. The left fully wants to ultimately ban guns from its people, the right does not. The left has wanted the right to kill unborn babies with Mommy’s consent for over 50 years, the right does not. The left wants to make a subsistence economy for its minority voters, the right wants minorities to be as successful as whites.
You really think they agree? And what do they really agree not to do? They both seem only to agree that they want more money and power and the only question is who to take it from first.
>“NPC ” Nonsensical Pervert Communist?
NPC, Non Player Character… what the kids are calling the dummies around them that can’t think and only repeat talking points…. previously called Sheep.
T– I should have been more careful in drawing the lines there. In SPENDING/TAXING matters, the Left and Right are generally in agreement, question being “how much?”
In other matters, as you note, they are diametrically opposed, and yes, both like having power. Easier to squeeze milk from the udders of the lobbyist-cows.