Bob,
Your funny.

I concur with Bob!

Willem Dafoe would be a better option than any of these clowns!

Yes. It is called an election. If the people don't want a candidate they should not vote for that candidate and there will be no double, triple etc.....

The field of GOP "doer" (more like Dewar) candidates Bren really tells us what they think about government and consequently what they think about us.

@Steve -

AWD despised the 'Standing with Michelle' ad. Bringing it back may upset him. Do you really want to upset AWD? Think about it :-)

For the lulz yes, yes I do

GearHead, that is the absolute best post I have seen here in a month. Oh so true on all points.

That may be true, Gearhead, but these days in order to win an election (one where the Democrats and the fence sitters aren't asleep at the wheel, anyways), you're better off with a hairfire and a healthy dose of promising people everything's going to be okay if we just roast the 1% on a spit. A perennial loser, the Brett Favre of politics or a guy whose already got a target on his back because he's been labeled as one of Dr. Evil's henchmen probably aren't going to cut it in the general. The same people who voted for Obama because it made them feel good about themselves to do so (the fence sitters) will vote for Baldwin for that same reason. The Dems are all fired up. Given that, if we're stuck with those 3 only, I'd like to see Tommy get the nod, go out there and finally get kicked to the curb, if only so we don't have him jumping in and making a mess of every election between now and the time he's finally reunited with his brother Ed, G-d rest his soul.

@Bob... you make an interesting point, but I don't quite see it that way. At the end of the day, people will rally behind a doer. The Republican bench is rich with doers. Most folks have seen past Obama's siren song. We aren't buying it. Baldwin is even further left of Russ Russ, without his charming, but fake "awe-shucks" shtick. 2010 election was only the first wave of shellacking. 2012 should pretty much finish the job.

Greg, they don't rally behind a doer if they don't like what that person is going to do. The soft middle is called that, precisely because they're soft. Stuff like being part of the 99% that's being victimized by 1% appeals to them. Victimized teachers and "attacks" on the sacred cow of public education appeal to them. The Dems have done a marvelous job of portraying the Republicans as perennial puppy kickers for those who never get much below skin deep on any issue.

You've got two on that list there that are easy targets for their ties to the righty-right part of the party, and a third who twists with the wind, but who at the same time is every guy or gal with a camera phone and ambitions to post something on YouTube that gets 250K+ hits dream come true.

The one guy who's charismatic enough to get past the stereotypes and who could survive the onslaught of attacks, despite being accused of being Ayn Rand's illegitimate nephew twice removed, has declined.

If we're being honest at this point, frankly, we got nothin'.

Oops..sorry, Gear, not Greg. And actually I hope you're right and I'm wrong.

Um, expect Tommy will never make it past the medievalists that vote in the GOP primaries, precisely because he is a "doer" (which can be taken many ways).

The right wing doesn't want the government to do anything, regardless of the negative effect that might have on economy and our international competitiveness.

Tommy, the father of embryonic stem cell research no matter how much he denies it now ala Romney will be in trouble with the real boss of the GOP, the jug-jawed Barbara Lyons with Wisconsin Right to Lie.

GearHead, don't you mean Dewar?

Again????

Well, we need to find her first. I need proof she is not at the bottom of lake Michigan with cement boots.

Maybe he's out of cigarettes, or hungry for some BBQ...

Apparently when it comes to representatives you like the kind of "service" you are getting from Senator MoRon Johnson.

Yep, not a socialist and doesn't vote present. My kind of Senator

Where has be been living?

Unless someone else comes forward (can't imagine who at this point) or he shoots himself if the foot early on, Tommy will get the nod. I don't think he can overcome the novelty factor feel-good of Tammy Baldwin, even if he does manage to get all the way to the end, major gaffe-free. Baldwin stumbled a bit coming out of the gate with that "ad" that pretty much tagged her as an ultra-lefty, but since this is a big deal on a national level for the Dems, she'll have the best of handlers on her side. It's hers to lose, essentially.

@Bill Clinton...I don't understand why you think it is so important to make English the official language. Within a fairly short period of time most non English speakers learn English. By the second generation the vast majority are either English only or bilingual speakers. You're making a whole lot about nothing.

If you think Tommy is your answer to welfare, think again. On this score you're just wrong.

Besides the fact that Tommy will never make it through the whacko right wing GOP primary because he believes in technological progress, a lot of this mess with day car providers making dump load trucks full of money can be traced to Tommy's "reforms."

@Bill Clinton...I don't think we need an official language at all. If you look at our nation's history, we became very close to becoming a German speaking nation. With the Hispanic growth, who knows; in less than a century the U.S. may be primarily Spanish speaking. There are far too many other things to be concerned about other than what language we're speaking.

@AWD...As far as you are concerned, everyone is a racist except for yourself.

We're going to have to move to Asia or Europe to have our kids learn English. Considering they start to learn English when they enter school, most of these kids will know how to speak English when they migrate to the US.

If you prefer English, then why don't you learn to write the English language correctly??
Here is your first English lesson:
correct = "English"
incorrect= "english"

KCG: You have proven you know what a Cap button is- good for you.
One question mark is all that is required when writing in the English language, I guess the button got sticky when you swam across the river?

For Craig:
Additional question marks are used for emphasis. I assume you mistook the hyphen key (after the first "is" in your comment) for the period key. The comma key (after the word "language") was also used for the period key. The period key is used to set off complete sentences. Perhaps a review of the concept of "Run-On Sentences" would not be remiss.

Are we done with punctuation and capitalization? If so, let's move on to where to place replies so that they form a contiguous thread.