Rematch

Round One Debate

Some people just can't take "no" for an answer. Feckless, egoistic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who has tried twice in the past to run for governor of Wisconsin and failed, will face the incomparable Scott Walker on June 5 in a rematch of their 2010 battle for the governor's office. The stakes couldn't be higher for Wisconsin and for the nation. Walker represents everything that is good about this nation, its founding principles, its moral fiber, its character, while Barrett stands for everything that Obama, Greece, France and the increasingly irrelevant, nanny state-embracing nations of Europe stand for, i.e., higher debts, a cradle to grave culture of dependency on government handouts, a rejection of personal responsibility, and the rise of the dictatorship of relativism. Based on polling of of likely voters, I feel confident that Walker will win, and by a relatively comfortable margin. But there's work to do, and we shouldn't be overconfident. If Walker is given more years to govern, and assuming there's a Republican majority in the legislature, the sky is the limit as to what else he might accomplish to solidify the state's status as a leading conservative bastion in the nation.

It is pretty remarkable that the Catholic candidate in this race is the liberal, pro-abortion, pro-you-name-it-the-Church-opposes-it Democrat. Scott Walker, a Protestant, has done some incredibly positive things on the culture war front and deserves some "attaboy" encouragement from Church leaders across the state in the lead up to this epic battle. It will be interesting to see if the Archdiocese of Milwaukee issues any kind of directives on voting. I'm not holding my breath. Laissez-faire on politics and "business as usual," especially when it comes to liberal Catholic politicians, often seem to be the default positions here.