Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Mark Belling Ripped Republicans For Touting Plan to Recruit Fake Recall Election Opponents

Interesting rant - - his word - - by AM 1130 WISN conservative talker Mark Belling Tuesday afternoon at Republicans, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald by name, for openly touting their rotten little scheme to force recall election primaries and string out the process by recruiting fake Democrats.

Belling is right to believe that people and voters will rebel against such an obvious and obnoxious effort to manipulate the election process.

[Web link and quotes, here.]

He attributed the GOP leadership's misguided plan to what he called the "Madisonization" of Republican leadership and staff - - living and working and being influenced in the political bubble there.

I disagree, as somewhere in that label is a rip at liberals and the suggestion that they are responsible for Fitzgerald's brain-dead and anti-democratic plan.

My take on this is that Fitzgerald and his minions are game-players rather than policy people, and fearing the loss of his majority in the Senate, Fitzgerald is simply adding a new level to the game - - messing with election processes that Republicans said they were duty-bound to clean up with their over-reaching Voter ID law.

Not only is Fitzgerald a hypocrite, he'd be doing what he's doing that even if he wasn't in Madison. It's all about trying to hold on to power, Fitzgerald & Co. have really miscalculated, and been caught, and are digging themselves a deeper hole by defending their plan.

It could be the tipping point in the recalls that have been pointing in Democrats' favor since Scott Walker's union-busting overreach, followed by Fitzgerald's earlier disregard for law and process - - his trampling on the State Open Meetings Statute.

If a prominent conservative like Belling is upset and willing to bash the GOP for this evil tactic, that means he's alarmed at the perception and the fallout - - that conservatives could lose the Senate Senate by being Machiavellian and two-faced about the integrity of the Wisconsin election system.

Let's hope he's right.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Dems could win all the elections if the fake Dems are involved. If the fake dem loses, it shows how engaged the voters are and the Dems will most likely win. If the fake Dems win, the real Dems could run as Independents and win in a three way race against 2 republicans. The Dems could avoid all that, with Belllings blessing, if they say they are going to do what Leiberman did - run as Independents if they lose the primaries.

Boxer said...

S'cuse me, two questions:

1. Didn't the Repubs get caught trying to pull off their little fraternity prank in secret and then "embrace" it only after it was fully exposed?

2. Now that the cat is out of the bag (or the elephant out of the very large, elephant box) and voters know what the plan was, it has less of a chance to work very well, if at all. Why are they wasting time and taxpayer money?

A. Wag said...

It should come as no surprise that Fitzgerald supports the 'Fake Democrats' plan--he's been supporting Fake Human Beings as Republicans for years.

A. Wag said...

Desperate times call for desperate-r measures.

wisconsinite said...

First of all, no phony candidate is going to win...the GOP is not going to waste precious campaign funds on advertising fake candidates....it's just to force a primary, not to win. Besides, Dems are working off recall signature lists....every one of those voters will get a call from the Dems educating them on the real candidate who will also be running many of their own commercials. I doubt these troublemakers will break 2%. It is also important to realize that WI law on recalls says that in a primary recall election if any candidate gets over 50% the race ends there and does not proceed to another election. So if the bad PR backlash is intense and the Dems do a good education/advertising job instructing voters on the phony candidates (who will not be running any commercials themselves) this may have no effect at all.

Trotter said...

It's far more complicated now.