Amen to that. Fitz is the guy that helped him. He has earned his shot at the Senate, and unlike all the others, we know he will stand for conservative principles, because he did so last year.
I believe Hovde, based on my conversations with him, as well as the impressions of others, is a solidly conservative guy who would represent the Tea Party/Conservative perspective.
Neumann I have already discussed.
Tommy was critical of Walker during the battle over Act 10. After he left office, he supported the third party candidacy of his brother for the governorship over his own lieutenant governor Scott McCallum, which was responsible for siphoning off enough votes to give us 8 years of Jim Doyle. Thanks, Tommy.
So it comes down to Fitzgerald and Hovde as the acceptable candidates. I would support either of the others in the general election, but I would hold my nose when I did so.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
4:22 PM
Thompson goes after Hovde, Club for Growth knocks them both
Tommy Thompson has a new TV ad that goes after Eric Hovde, while the Club for Growth has a new spot out that knocks both of them.
The Thompson TV ad is similar to a radio spot he released last week that questions Hovde's conservative credentials because the hedge fund manager and community banker gave a donation to former Gov. Jim Doyle.
The 30-second TV ad notes that Hovde gave $500 to Doyle's campaign "against Scott Walker" in 2005.
It plays audio of Hovde saying he was probably "strong armed" by Doyle and that he "capitulated."
"Hovde admits he capitulated to liberal Jim Doyle to protect his real estate deals," a narrator says. "Tommy Thompson stood up to liberals like Jim Doyle his whole career. Hovde capitulated. That's a risk we can't afford."
The national Club for Growth spot asks, “Who will bring real conservative change to Washington?”
The spot features a cube with pictures on all sides that rotates as the narrator says Thompson “did some good things ago.” One side of the cube shows an old black-and-white picture of Thompson.
“But he pushed for nine different tax hikes and said we can’t repeal Obamacare,” the narrator says.
The spot then turns to Hovde, who the narrator says supported a “Wall Street bailout and Obama’s high-speed rail stimulus spending.”
“That won’t change Washington,” the narrator says.
The spot concludes by praising Mark Neumann as Wisconsin’s “most conservative congressman in decades. Neumann’s the choice for conservative change.”
-- By JR Ross