No Distance Will Be Great Enough

I hope every Republican running for elected office in Wisconsin this fall is in good physical shape--because all of them will be trying to distance themselves as far as possible from President Trump on the campaign trail.  A simple stiff arm likely won't do it for voters--this will have to be a full-on sprint in the opposition direction, yelling and screaming all the way.  Of course, if the Administration didn't veer wildly from one position to another on an hour-by-hour basis, it might be easier to stay far away from it.

The candidate the party didn't want who became the President they thought could be "useful" is now the hair shirt that every active member of the GOP must wear.  Along with an albatross around their necks.  And the anchor tied around their ankles.  The name "Donald Trump" is going to be used so often this year that votes will think that we have just skipped the 2018 mid-terms and gone straight to the 2020 Presidential election.

Governor Walker was out sounding the alarm last night after the "conservative candidate" Michael Screnock got smoked in the race for State Supreme Court, claiming that "big money, out of state special interest groups are lying about what's going on in Wisconsin".  But I can guarantee that behind closed doors today he and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and all of the other state GOP bigwigs are trying to figure out how to separate themselves from clown show going on at the White House.

And that isn't going to be easy, because no such effort was made until now.  Yes, most party members threw tepid support behind Ted Cruz before the Wisconsin Presidential Primary (that was supposed to stall the "Trump Train"--but had little effect on the eventual outcome)--but then they held their noses and appeared at campaign stops with the eventual nominee--and cheered his win in Wisconsin in November.  But since then, they have been largely silent about threatening tweets, a lack of factual knowledge, constant turnover, attacks on the justice system, efforts to alienate nearly every segment of the population, and daily flip-flops on important issues.  Although, they were once again willing to whoop and holler when the President signed tax reform into law.

The President likes to pat himself on the back by calling his election the "Greatest Upset In Political History".  But the way it looks now, all other Republicans will refer to it as the "Worst Pyrrhic Victory In Political History".