Yesterday I voiced my desire to see Democrats turn out Tuesday and vote for Mark Neumann. He can easily be defeated in November.
Remember that Wisconsin has an open primary. A voter need not declare party affiliation when voting. The voter, however, can only vote for one party on Primary Day.
Today comes more sound reasoning why Democrats should cast a ballot for the Republicans.
Left-leaning voters in Madison — which is nearly all of them, according to standard conservative mythology — could be sorely tempted to derail career politician Scott Walker’s lifelong ambitions.
And the temptation needn’t catch on “in a big way,” as the radio squawker fears. For one thing, Rasmussen Reports already shows Scott Walker and Mark Neumann in a dead heat,* and for another, Walker needs to deal with voters in Wisconsin’s hardline conservative counties, among the next most populous after Milwaukee and Dane.
Potential Democratic shenanigans aside, those out-State voters are the ones the big city-bred Scott Walker really needs to be concerned about, and his comically desperate attempts to paint Mark Neumann as a Nancy Pelosi clone demonstrate that he’s very concerned indeed.
It’s Mark Neumann’s extremism that comes from Neumann’s church, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) instructing its members in explicitly anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-choice and anti-gay teachings; hate that does not play well in Wisconsin no matter that Neumann calls his hate “morals,” “ethics” and “values”. Hate will make Neumann a weak candidate in the general election.