Day: April 6, 2011

Kloppenburg won an election she should never have won dealing a humiliating blow to the Republican Tea Party and their media toads. This is a total Wisonsin smackdown of Scott Walker.

I know that having "Two Tahitian Women" as one's favorite Gauguin panting is like having "Starry Night" as one's favorite Van Gogh painting, or "Water Lilies" as your favorite Monet painting, but some visual cliches are visual cliches because THEY ARE AWESOME!! AMIRIGHT? Anyway, art appreciation aside...

I am not breaking my recent promise to have mercy on my liberal brothers and sisters by dragging poor Barack through the "purity" mud with my magic pony. I promise. Rather - I am pointing out, (for my nth time as a blogger) that there are two ways to conduct a national campaign. There is the Democratic Party's system of trying to appeal to 5% of the "swing" voters through "triangulation." We can also call this the "50% plus 1" strategy that Bill Clinton won with. There is the "Energize the Base" strategy which a Democrat won with in 2008.