I have landed on a few conservative mailing lists -- I think I signed a petition just so I’d get some of the scoop from time time. At least they waste a stamp on me. So, although I wasn't surprised to get the letter, but I was impressed that Governor Walker and is friends are worried enough to be reaching to the big moneybags of South Dakota like me for help with his impending recall.
The letter drips with victim language (who says only the left can play the persecution card), (deft) projection, and (masterfully done) misdirection. Walker claims again that his attack on unions is to save the state budget (false), but somehow knowing that we all know he’s lying, he quickly pivots, and probes for any conservative erogenous zones:
Big Unions | President Obama’s Political Machine (1) | MoveOn.org | George Soros’ (2) attack organizations | Ultra Left Wing Elites from Hollywood and Manhattan | Thousands of Big Labor protesters bused in from Chicago and Las Vegas (3) (1) The President’s team has kept the upper hand over Walker by masterfully saying and doing absolutely nothing in support of the workers and voters of Wisconsin. (2) Very impressive that they got the apostrophe right I’d say (3) Chicago, I get that... (in 1956 maybe) ... but ... Las Vegas? I thought the Sin City rank-and-file were Ron Paul types!If you have the stomach for it, the letter (with its carefully cropped and enhanced pictures the Madison protests) was posted and very well dissected by Amanda Terkel on HuffPo back in January. Nothing new here really.
But this warning totally got my attention:
Mark my words, if they [“Big Labor Bosses” -- Boss Tweed reborn in Oshkosh?] barge and bully to their way here, your state’s next. OMG -- South Dakota is next?