Odd Righty Strategy: Remind Everyone That Walker Recall Signing Was Widespread

Republicans and their talk radio mouth pieces have had a self-defeating relationship with the Walker recall process.

* They predicted it would lead to hundreds of thousands of bad or fraudulent signatures, then watched the Government Accountability Board certify an historic, staggering 901,000 valid signatures, with only four obviously fictitious signatures tossed.

* Then the Walkerites used the searchable signature data base to disclose that a couple dozen circuit court judges and about the same number of employees at news organizations had signed, too.

The numbers were puny, but showed that people felt deeply about the need to recall Walker - - a sign of the dedicated turnout against him that is coming.

* Now this outing/blacklisting strategy has backfired, with the latest claim that Walker John Doe prosecutors in the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office had signed has been shown to be false.

That against a background of Wisconsin Republicans pushing fake candidates in the Senate recalls, and Walker's frequent and repetitive false pronouncements.

All these stories keep reminding everyone that signing the petitions was a popular thing to do, regardless of risk to career and reputation, and that the entire effort was a precedent-setting success.

For the pro-recall, grassroots forces, a GOP that embraces fake candidates and false-speaking on behalf of an unpopular incumbent facing recall is an excellent narrative.