Do Feingold supporters really want to go there?
Most of us are familiar enough with US Senate candidate Ron Johnson’s biography to know that he’s a successful businessman who helped make Pacur into a thriving plastics company in Wisconsin. Unfortunately the scorn of the political left knows no bounds, and they’re even accusing Johnson of marrying into his fortune (never mind the growth of the company under Johnson’s leadership).
The reality is that Ron Johnson lucked-out by marrying Howard Curler’s daughter, but that doesn’t make him an entrepreneur and a business-dynamo, that makes him lucky.
The Wisconsin State Journal and the trade website PlasticNews.com both take on this silly suggestion, setting the record straight.
This really is par for the course for Democrats who see anyone that has actually built a business as somehow undeserving of the success they achieve. Maybe Democrats get the idea from Senator John Kerry who lives rather well off the Heinz fortune.
However, do Wisconsin Democrats really want to go into whether or not Johnson was “lucky” in whom he married (for over 30 years)? Which of Senator Russ Feingold’s three wives was the lucky charm for him? Or will it be number four? After all, the plural of spouse is “spice” and right now Feingold is on a pace to pass Larry King. I would assume that Feingold supporters would be doing everything they can to keep a candidate’s personal life off limits. Yet Feingold and his supporters keep going back to mentioning Johnson’s personal life.
They must really be desperate.
“I wouldn’t bring up Paris if I were you. It’s poor salesmanship.”
-Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca
“…the plural of spouse is ‘spice’…”
Hey, hey, hey! I thought we weren’t getting personal here.
John Foust Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 10:23 am
You know what the penalty for bigamy is, don’t you?
John Foust Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Two wives. Bada-bing!
grumps Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Why is divorce so expensive?
John Foust Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Because it’s worth it?
That WSJ article also says that RoJo is “facing” Dave Westlake, when in fact he’s trying just as hard as he can to not face opposition. RoJo has spent the past six weeks debating himself; first with, “I didn’t hear the question,” then with, “Licensing, just like cars,” but then not just like cars and then with, “sunspots cause global warming and cars make the trees grow.”
Now he wants us to believe that he’s an entrepreneur for succeeding with a tied company in a closed loop. It ain’t about his wife. It’s about his inability to tell a simple truth plainly.
Let him debate Westlake. Let him talk to a real reporter instead of just to PaddyMac. Let him act like a candidate instead of an appointee
Fred Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Seriously Grumps? The man bought the company and grew it. He was now a Kennedy that inherited his wealth.
Why do you hate people who succeed in the private market?
Feingold could never hack it there.
John Foust Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Working at Foley & Lardner and La Follette & Sinykin for six years? You are disparaging the effort it would take to get those positions, then perform for six years before Feingold was elected to the Senate? UW-Madison BA with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes scholarship for another BA at Oxford, then a JD from Harvard Law? Fred, if this was your kid, you’d be wearing a button every day that said “Ask Me About My Son”.
grumps Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Fred, I don’t hate Johnson for anything. All that “hating” business flows out of your twisted worldview.
I do believe that Johnson needs to answer for saying this when something else is true.
Johnson flips and flops like a carp on the bank and yet there are still people in this state who believe he’d be adequate as a US Senator.
Now, can you deal with the point of my post, that Westlake deserves a hearing from the Republicans who don’t want to overthrow the government?
John Foust Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Come on, Fred, tell me why Feingold “could never hack it” in the private market.
I have a better idea, Grumpy: Feingold should defend ObamaCare, spending To the Moon!! and Debt Until Hell Won’t Have It.
John Foust Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Is ObamaCare less than the cost of the war? Which Would Your Jesus Fund?