Dan Finley seems just as good as David Walker, one of the other candidates previously considered first tier. And I wouldn't be too quick to hold that primary loss agaist Tim Michels. (I like how one person described his 70-30 loss as nearly "3-1"; that's more than a bit of a stretch!)
Very few people seem to want Welch to run, it seems, even among the people supporting him. They look around and see the "hm, we need someone besides Welch" attitude and are all, "is it worth it?"
Other scuttlebutt has the primary being contested between Welch, Finley, and either David Magnum or Tim Michels. I think that would be healthy.
Heh, well... I can't see beyond the 5th or 6th pinged name. :-P
"Dan Finley seems just as good as David Walker, one of the other candidates previously considered first tier. And I wouldn't be too quick to hold that primary loss agaist Tim Michels. (I like how one person described his 70-30 loss as nearly "3-1"; that's more than a bit of a stretch!)"
I should be partial to Finley, since he's a Pewaukee resident, I have historical roots in Waukesha County (ancestors who were active in politics in the 19th century, one had the audacity to hold a local office as a Democrat, when the county was even more Republican than it is now, but he was an honest one and the local GOP liked him ! :-)). My father grew up in adjacent Oconomowoc.
"Very few people seem to want Welch to run, it seems, even among the people supporting him. They look around and see the "hm, we need someone besides Welch" attitude and are all, "is it worth it?""
Yeah, it's just hard to get past his '94 performance, although in all fairness, it was his lack of money that was the real problem.
"Other scuttlebutt has the primary being contested between Welch, Finley, and either David Magnum or Tim Michels. I think that would be healthy."
The question is whether whomever emerges, will they be the Jim Durkin of this cycle ? :-|