Blame Madison

Even as labor-backed challenger JoAnne Kloppenburger declared victory in her stunning defeat of conservative state supreme court justice David Prosser (just the fifth incumbent justice to be defeated in Wisconsin since 1852), Tea Party Gov. Scott Walker dismissed the results as just a Madison thing.

Gov. Scott Walker said this afternoon that the spring election results show there are "two very different worlds in this state." "You've got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin," Walker said at a press conference in the Capitol.

Just like Sarah Palin and her distinction between Democrats and "the real America," Walker seems to be implying that he can ignore the will of the voters in tiny Madison because they live in a whole different world from the majority of voters across the rest of the state.

Huh. But you know, even if we did elect candidates by the square mile instead of by the person (and we don't), a quick glance at a map of the way the county-by-county vote broke down in yesterday's supreme court election suggests that Walker's Madison must be awfully damn big.

DCBadger



It seems to me that it's Walker who's living in a whole different world. But then, Republicans have this habit of dismissing the legitimacy of the opposition, no matter how numerous.