MOUNT HOREB, Wis. – At first, Jeff Millard was undecided about who to vote for in November. Posted on 09/23/2012 3:41:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
MOUNT HOREB, Wis. – At first, Jeff Millard was undecided about who to vote for in November.
“I am not particularly happy with Obama,” the retired auto-parts storeowner said of the man he supported in 2008.
His wife, walking beside him on the Military Ridge state trail, overheard him voicing doubt. She let him know it was not an option.
“What about my reproductive rights?” she asked, clearly upset. “No, we are voting for Obama!”
Discussing his uncertainty, the retired couple walked off along the popular recreational trail in this small town, once known for the National Mustard Museum and an obsession with all things related to trolls.
By all rights, President Obama should easily win this state, with its “progressive” activism and elected liberals such as former U.S. senator Russ Feingold.
Obama won the state within an inch of 14 percentage points in 2008.
Today, he leads Republican Mitt Romney in state polling. But, based on his Chicago campaign headquarters’ reaction to any questioning that support, his lead may be as solid as quicksand.
The Badger State illustrates the political divide gripping segments of America, thanks largely to the reaction of organized labor and Democrat activists to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s collective-bargaining reform bill.
Since 2011, Wisconsin has endured an unprecedented rash of statewide elections, including recalls of GOP state senators, a February primary for local offices, an April presidential primary, a May gubernatorial-recall candidate primary among Democrats, and then June’s gubernatorial recall election.
Despite millions of dollars spent by Washington Democrats and unions, Walker and Republicans shocked pundits by prevailing in most of those contests.
On Saturday, Obama made his first appearance in 220 plus days in a state that may be politically spent: Less than 19 percent of its eligible voters showed up for an August primary to choose both parties’ U.S. Senate candidates.
An hour’s drive southeast of here, Janesville was put on the national radar by Tobin Ryan’s brother, Paul, the Republican congressman picked as Romney’s running mate.
Like many Midwesterners, Tobin and his family live a block from his brother and his family, and all of them within a stone’s throw of where they grew up.
Tobin is incredibly proud of his younger brother, who he calls “P.D.” He points to their father’s sudden death as the moment that defined his brother’s character:
“P.D. was 16 at the time and the only one home. Mom was driving back from a family visit in Colorado, our sister Janet and older brother Stan were away, and I was at breakfast with a former high-school teacher.
“Dad’s secretary had called looking for him. P.D. went down the hall to wake him up … Dad probably died during the night but that didn’t stop my brother from trying to resuscitate him.
“To me, that moment defined who he is … before, he was this happy-go-lucky kid that worked at McDonalds. From that point on, he persevered, focused, and 12 years later he was in Congress.”
Kathy Kopp of Platteville senses enormous pride among fellow Wisconsinites to have Ryan on the Republican ticket. “Whatever your political affiliation is, Ryan is very well respected by voters in this state,” she said.
Sitting inside a charming log cabin that is Platteville’s tourism center, Kopp and colleagues Debi Sigwarth and Joe Wand admit to being overwhelmed by political ads in the past two years.
Yet Wand hasn’t seen that dim enthusiasm for a native son on a presidential ticket: “Go down the street to the university and you will see plenty of young people with T-shirts that say ‘Like Obama, Voting Ryan.”
Wisconsin is well within reach for Romney-Ryan. Ryan’s House district, blue-collar and Democrat-leaning, is one that Obama must carry to win statewide; if Republicans run better-than-average there, they could exceed Walker’s recall numbers.
In a crowded elevator in downtown Chicago, Obama's hometown, Jason Buckle, 29, a Madison accountant in town for a conference, said the country needs Romney.
“But not just on the economy,” he explained. “The way the Mideast was handled last week was anything but presidential. In fact, it was dreadful, embarrassing.”
Republicans haven't won Wisconsin since 1984. That it is a GOP target this time tells you a lot.
Obama didn’t have the guts to even show up in Wisconsin last Spring.
Well, the missus has put her hairy foot down, hasn`t she? Screw the country`s future.. she wants her "reproductive rights."
My God, liberals suck on SO many levels...
I have a reason for not going into posted story links which I won’t go into here. What’s interesting about this piece is that it’s attributed to “Townhall’s Salina Zeto. Otherwise this “hit piece” lead are like the ones I used to do in my much younger daze I’d swear came from the (Madison WI) Capital Times or even the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel but there’s no attribuition by Zeto to either .
In 2004 Kerry took Wisconsin by less than half a point. In 2000 Gore took Wisconsin by 2/10ths of a point. Wisconsin is a lot more conservative than people give it credit for.
In other words, the 19th Amendment is killing us, and every abortion has been solicited by a woman.
It may be that many of these men are involved in clandestine affairs and think it best to appease the officlal wife whereever they can.
The only Jeff Millard I could find in Mount Horeb, WI is around 63 years old - about the right age for the description. There's a listing for a Kathy Millard at the same address, with a full name of Kathleen M. Millard (age: early 60s).
Alas, no young trophy wife for Jeff. Just an old, stupid one.
Maybe she’s a 25 year old trophy.
In certain parts of the world, “Trophy wife” means a lady who still has all of her teeth.
By all rights, President Obama should easily win this state, with its “progressive” activism and elected liberals such as former U.S. senator Russ Feingold.
The phrase is ‘FORMER U.S. Senator’.....gee, wonder how that happened? Hmmmmmm.
And those are fraud vote totals
First, if it came across as a rant, it wasn't meant that way. It was more of a comment on the original poster who basically said that he couldn't be with a woman who acted like that. I was concurring. I guess I was trying to say that I've always felt that the political opinions of anyone I was dating were separate from the relationship. I don't think that's possible anymore, as the relatively small percentage of women above the percentage of men who vote for people like Clinton and Obama are enough to dramatically change my life via the people they empower. They are voting what they see as their self-interest - and appear to be using very narrow criteria. It would be self-destructive and stupid of men who are being hurt by such women to seek their company. IMHO.
With regards a ‘generalized anti-black rant’, I don't see color in that way and don't have those prejudices. Having said that, one of the reasons that blacks vote for democrats in such high percentages is because of the generalizations that have been used to characterize Republicans (e.g. rich fat cats, bigots, stupid, rednecks, etc. etc.). Actually, now that I think about it, some feminists have generally characterized all men as potential rapists. Conservatives and Republicans are not the ones doing the generalizations (in general..).
This from the wife of a RETIRED auto parts store owner. “What about my reproductive rights?” she asked, clearly upset. “No, we are voting for Obama!”
She is probably RETIRED also and past the childbearing age, and is trying to convince younger women to vote for the genocide candidate.
Thank God we still have secret ballots!!! He will do the right thing alone in the booth, ignore the liberal wife wanting to be the man.
Therin lies the problem.....while no one is advocating her right to reproduce be taken away, her statement clearly indicates people that stupid reproducing is where dem voters come from
...so goes my tagline.
There is no “reproduction” here in her liberal lexicon.
The “reproductive rights” argument is a canard; it is nothing more than a euphemism for murder of an unborn soul.
It tells me how far left the rats have gone since 2000.
When someone claims that the Tea Party movement is so extreme, ask them why did the rats kick Senator Lieberman, their Vice Presidential nominee in 2000, off their ticket in Connecticut for the Senate in 2006?
If that doesn't leave them speechless, ask them why has the Communist Party USA endorsed the rats' nominee since John Kerry in 2004?
My guess is that they put their testicles in the same “lock box” that Al Gore always talked about for Social Security.
I smell a rat.
At retirement age, her ‘reproductive rights’ should be waaaay behind her. How old is this ‘lady’??
The entire topic of ‘women’s rights’ & ‘reproductive rights’ has been totally distorted, IMO.
Today’s women want the taxpayer to pay for their prmiscuity pills & their ‘ooops I forgot’ abortions.
They should be paying for such behavior on their own.
The taxpayer should not pay one single penny for their behavior.
I will happily stay out of your bedroom if you stay OUT OF MY WALLET!!!
BYW- My mother’s home town is Mt Horeb, Wis, and My grandfather used to run the bank there.
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