From NRO’s The Corner:
State supreme-court justice Michael Gableman stumped for his colleague, justice David Prosser, at a Republican luncheon this afternoon. He knows a thing or two about bruising high-court races. In 2008, Gableman unseated supreme-court justice Louis Butler, flipping the court’s balance to a 4-3 conservative majority. With JoAnne Kloppenburg, an environmental lawyer, mounting a high-profile campaign against Prosser, that majority risks being upended.
“We need you step out of your comfort zone,” Gableman said, his voice rising. “This is it. The truth is, if they succeed in taking David Prosser out, a man who has deserved and earned a reputation as a judicial conservative — not legislating from the bench, but simply applying the law — and they replace him with an unqualified partisan, well, then we get four black-robed masters who will serve as veto power over everything the governor and the legislature does, whether it is this governor and this legislature, or governors and legislators yet to be elected.”…
And that, indeed, is the issue in Tuesday’s Wisconsin election. The choice: re-elect a judge who will fairly rule on the law, or elect a thuggish, left wing ideologue who will rule which ever way the liberal party line demands? (Thuggish? Yes – while Kloppenburg has kept herself at arms-length from the nastiness she has refused to condemn or stop other liberal groups from using outright slander against Prosser…even when one of the subjects of an attack ad plead with Kloppenburg to stop using his case in a lying attack ad, Kloppenburg refused to act). If the people of Wisconsin wish to have the freedom to decide for themselves the future of Wisconsin, they will return Prosser to office…if they prefer to have someone entirely controlled by shadowy and corrupt liberal groups, then they’ll vote for Koppenburg.
It is probably impossible to poll in this race – the normal turn out for such elections is about 10-15%. Some guess it could go as high as 30% as the forces of the right and left step up their activities. While Prosser has received some excellent help from TEA Party and other groups, the left (as usual) will vastly outspend the right. It really will turn on who shows up – the left is counting on an energized union-stooge base to show up…and then using a new liberal court majority to undo everything Walker and the legislature have done or will do (and that, my friends, is telling…they are working desperate to find an un-democratic way to thwart democracy; if this doesn’t convince you that the left is fascist, nothing will).
Will the left be proven right? They could be – and thus I urge you, if you are in Wisconsin, to get out and vote…this is important. If we can beat back the left right here, right now, we will greatly weaken their efforts going in to 2012. This is all part of the process – all part of our march to victory. Did you think the left would roll over and play dead after the people rejected them last year? Heck no. They never cared what the people thought, anyway…the left is all about securing personal power and wealth for the left; they won’t go away and they won’t go down without a fight. Here’s our chance to smack them one more time.
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