Democrats Go Over the Top With Last-Minute Walker Smear
Unbelievable. The Democrats are looking down the barrel of a
humiliating defeat in Wisconsin’s recall election on Tuesday, so today
they played their last card: they started a rumor
that Scott Walker fathered an illegitimate child 24 years ago. The
“scoop” comes from something called the Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op.
The “Co-op” attributes the story to a woman named Bernadette Gillick,
who teaches physical therapy at the University of Minnesota. Ms.
Gillick claims to have known Walker’s girlfriend when they were
students at Marquette. The “Co-op” says it has “not been able to
independently verify Bernadette’s account.” No surprise there.
Will the Democrats’ last-minute smear have any impact? It is hard to say; recall how in 2000, they sat on the fact that George W. Bush had gotten a DWI in Maine many years earlier until a couple of days before the election, and it apparently did have an effect, turning what seemed to be a safe race for Bush into an epic nail-biter. At InTrade, for what it’s worth, Walker is now listed as a 92% favorite, down from 96% yesterday.
UPDATE: A columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel looked into the Democrats’ rumor. His findings:
H/T PowerLine
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/democrats-go-over-the-top-with-last-minute-walker-smear.php
Will the Democrats’ last-minute smear have any impact? It is hard to say; recall how in 2000, they sat on the fact that George W. Bush had gotten a DWI in Maine many years earlier until a couple of days before the election, and it apparently did have an effect, turning what seemed to be a safe race for Bush into an epic nail-biter. At InTrade, for what it’s worth, Walker is now listed as a 92% favorite, down from 96% yesterday.
UPDATE: A columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel looked into the Democrats’ rumor. His findings:
(1) I tracked down and talked to Dr. Gillick’s freshman-year roommate at MU yesterday, and she adamantly denies that Walker is the father of her child. Yes, she got pregnant as a first-year student, but she believes Dr. Gillick is mixing up stories; and (2) I Can Read CCAP has taken a family court suit involving Scott Alan Walker and mixed it up with the governor, Scott Kevin Walker.These people are absolutely shameless.
H/T PowerLine
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/democrats-go-over-the-top-with-last-minute-walker-smear.php
Aggie - you will also notice the timing of this nonsense. They know it's not true but if some of the electorate only get the first part of the story before they vote it may sway their vote.
ReplyDeleteBigger picture, this exemplifies just how badly these thugs were raping the taxpayers. If they had a compelling argument they would use that. Sense they don't they are reduced to this crap.
Dig your site by the way.
Thanks and yea its the last best shot they had and it seems to be doing them no damned good at all
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