Now that the Wisconsin recall election
is in the history books, the Democrat Machine has switched to the Max
Extract Spin Mode, trying its best to make Scott Walker's successful
defense against the public employee union onslaught seem like nothing
more than a fluke. The union thugs lost this one by losing support of
the very people they believed were firmly in their pocket – the
working stiffs. These same working stiffs are also less likely to
support a President they see as doing everything he can to kill jobs
despite his claims to the contrary. His record speaks for itself. The
spin the Dems and the White House are trying to put on Walker's win
isn't resonating very well across the country.
So why did the public employee unions
lose after spending millions in union funds to unseat Walker? It's
simple, really.
It's tough to convince someone who's
barely making ends meet all while seeing their taxes going up year
after year that it's in their best interest to support state and
municipal employee demands for gold plated benefits packages those of
us in the private sector can only dream about. It was a major
disconnect between the public employee unions and the average working
folks.
What made this disconnect even worse is
that Walker's actions did exactly what he said they would – turning
a $6 billion budget deficit into the first budget surplus seen in
years, all without raising taxes; lowering property taxes; and
helping reduce benefits costs paid by school systems across the
state. It's not easy convincing people who see more of their money
staying in their pockets that they should “go back to the way it
used to be.” That's a tough sell.
Do the results in Wisconsin
automatically mean Obama is doomed and Romney will have a cakewalk?
No, not in the least. But it does mean that a state the Democrats saw
as safely in the Obama camp is now in play, and that does not bode
well for the President.
Too bad. Or not.