Tommy Thompson Wins Wisconsin Republican Senate Primary
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has won the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat the party is trying to capture for the first time in more than five decades.
Tommy Thompson
The ex-governor and Health and Human Services secretary under President George W. Bush defeated three GOP rivals during Tuesday’s primary.
It marked Thompson’s first time on the ballot since 1998. He advances to face Democrat Tammy Baldwin in the Nov. 6 election.
The seat became open following the retirement of Democrat Herb Kohl.
The win follows a blistering primary in which hedge fund investor Eric Hovde invested nearly $5 million of his own money into the race. U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann and state Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald also sought the GOP nomination.
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Iowa_man
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:34pmSo I see MoveOn.org is working with none other than Russ Fiengold to create a money bomb for Tammy. They call it a Cheddarbomb. If you want to explode the cheddar bomb on old Russ and Tammy, go donate to Tommy Thompson to help fight the good fight and show Tammy the door.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:41amas secretary of health and human services under Bush what was he doing when insurance premiums were going through the roof?
Report Post »tzion
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:49amExpecting the government to solve your problems for you? Your entitlement mentality is what gave us Obama in the first place.
Report Post »FatManChew
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:40amThat’s funny individualism because my insurance was fine until Obama got into office.
Report Post »politicaljules
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 3:10pmMy insurance premiums went up 40% in 2012. I got a letter citing the new health care law as the reason for the changes in our plan. Our premiums have stayed the same for most of my adult life, and only changed if we added family members or increased coverage.
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:19amCongrats Tommy Thompson, rooting for you come Nov 2012. You can help balance the US Senate vote, and move us forward!
Report Post »myway
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:18amThis is a big win. We have to take every seat we can. Once we have power those who lean left will find themselves in a real tough position to fix this mess. They will stand out like a farmer in his field.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:15amTommy, the most popular former Governor in quite a few decades, will be facing Tammy Baldwin. A Madison arch radical liberal lesbian. A Real “Moscow On The Mendota” Communist.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:28amMy old Governor – good guy.
I’m wondering, though, does Tommy have any RINO in him? It‘s been so long that I can’t remember exactly his entire repertoire. I know he reformed welfare and cut property taxes, but the pensions and benefits of Wisconsin government sector workers is pretty hefty, and some of those increases must have come under his watch.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:19amDon’t all the old breed Hauschild? He would be fine with the right leadership. I’m not sure Mitch McConnell is the right leadership though.
Report Post »GrayPanther
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:18amReally? This campaign should be a “hoot”. We could call it “Normal vs Abnormal”. At any rate the awakened people of Wisconsin will decide in good order.
Report Post »ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:27amDon’t get too excited.
My real concern is two-fold. The Illegals and electronic vote fraud. Watch the youtube video here of sworn Congressional testimony by a computer programmer who was able to program the Diebold voting machines to give any outcome count desired. When it’s programmed and It comes out 51-49 and everyone says “Oh, we were so close” believing the results. Electronic voting is a very serious problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7R1_ixtlyc
The latest WHISTLEBLOWER magazine from WND has an entire issue on voter fraud from the left. It reveals all the methods used by the left to corrupt the sytem. Strategies such as calling you racist, using the term voter suppression, etc;. This is a GREAT magazine and very educational. You can get a free 3 month subscription at their website.
http://superstore.wnd.com/Whislteblower-3-Issue-Trial-Offer.
Report Post »JimCS
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:22amMore likely; is that the vote IS accurate…. now that all the non-Wisconsinites are gone. Outsiders not around to intimidate, inflame, and forge petition signatures. All that was left were real Wisconsinites speakng through the ballot box.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:23amThen maybe some entrepreneur should come up with some software to check thre integrity of the voting machine software. It should check the voting machine against how the code SHOULD be running to how it’s actually running on the machine.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:43amGood point, Racine County for one doesn’t even try to hide the fact that the elections are corrupt. I guess being so close to Chicago rubs off on them.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:58amIm feeling giddy.What, too soon?
Report Post »Raging_Waters
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:45amForeshadowing of events hopefully…
Report Post »BODYBAG
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:06amI was being very cautiously optimistic about November, but WOW.
Get ready to take the WHOLE THING folks and get our country back.
Another member here hit the nail on the head:
“It‘s about Numbers Folks Make you’re Polling Place Look Like Chick-Fil-A ”
We only need to take 6 Senate seats
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:27amRespectfully I disagree. Conservatives need to take ALL of the available seats. There are too many Rino’s lurking in the other 66 seats of the Washington,D.C. Senate.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:38amIt was a primary, not an election for the seat. So why all the excitement? It doesn’t say he was running against an establishment Republican. In fact he worked for Bush so is he establishment? I don’t know so I am just asking if anyone else knows.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:06amHere in Ohio, there was/is excitement because Josh Mandel(sp?) won the primary. It is my fervent hope he beats Sherrod Brown – the left of communist Senator we have now.
Report Post »Seeweedee
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:48pmI agree…Far too many of the liberal “Republicans”, in office and not enough of the old fashioned conservative Republicans that made this country great, and in so doing eased the lot of the poor. No other nation has helped or inspired so many. …..BUT Our numbers ARE growing
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:54amI like Wisconsin this year. A lot.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:05amThey wanted Real Hope & change, lol.
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:06amI second that. A whole lot . Second after Texas, that is. (Ted Cruz).
Report Post »fmbmitgt
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:49amThe 2 Tea Party candidates (Neumann and Hovde) split what would’ve been an overwhelming margin of victory for either one.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:35amThat should be a CLEAR example to the PaulBots of how voting for him is the same as a vote for Obama.
But they’ll never understand it
Report Post »Bill Brasky
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 3:18am@ Almighty Creestof,
Its a clear example of what you tea-o-con phonies SHOULD have done in the primaries, when R-money couldn’t get above 25% in the polls. That is to say, you should have united behind the only real agent of change in the race- one Ron Paul. Instead, you all divided your support among the pretenders, each one trying to run from their own unique big government progressive record.
Not to worry, though. We are the future of the Republican Party. What you’re seeing today is Goldwater/Rockefeller ‘64 all over again, this will not end well for you.
Report Post »reality based lifeform
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:07amI didn’ t realize Ron Paul was running for a Wisconson Senate seat?
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:41am@BillBrasky Should have would have could have. Whatever!!!!!
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:53am@The_Almighty_Creestof
Haven’t you learned by now that thou shalt not speak ill of Ron Paul, lest you suffer the wrath of his worshippers? And then they will proceed to explain to you how you aren‘t really a conservative and if it wasn’t for GOP trickery, Ron Paul would be the nominee. On, I forgot the obligatory “sheeple” name calling. LOL
It’s like the old In Living Color skits with the Wayans sister who would go off if anybody said anything bad about Ms. Jenkins.
Report Post »Bill Brasky
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:40am@ Texasgranny- bravo on such an intelligent response. My sympathies to the grandkids, who’ll pay their whole life into SS without getting a penny of it back because our spineless politicians would rather let you dance on their backs for an artificially inflated quality of life. I bet you hate socialism, too.
As for the rest of you, I clicked on this story to find out why a washed up has been like Thompson was able to beat out desperately needed new blood that Hovde or Neumann could have provided. The Romulan in front of me went off track.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:16amHe defeated 3 RIVALS…3…in WISCONSIN. Republicans tripping over each other for a job in a historically DemonicRat state?
Looks to me like Wisconsinites have had enough of the Takers and will be voting en masse for the Makers – GO WISCONSIN!!!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:23amGo Badgers and Cheeseheads, unless they are Govt. Cheeseheads, then they can go to helllllo.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 1:29amIt seems Wisconsin found the antibiotic that works against liberalism.
Could it be cheese ?
Raging_Waters
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 2:38amPerhaps the flash mobs?..
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:34am@Screw-Windows No. It ts Barack Hussein Obama. HIllary Clinton Nancy Pelosi Janet Napolitano Elizabeth Warren Kathleen Sibelius Barbara Boxer Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz Sonja Sotomayor Michelle Obama Czars and cars and corruption galore, food stamps and welfare and mandates of no war. It is encapsulated in two words. Root Rot. Ahh yes it is a woman’s world after all? Sorry. Carried away this a.m.
Report Post »freemama
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:14amThe Wisconsin antibiotics are Priebus, Walker, Ryan, Thompson a bit of beer and an occasional brandy old fashion.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:49amLove you much Texasgranny73, a gal who thinks so much like me! Love to have tea with you sometime-I’d even come to Texas.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:47amWhat the people of Wisconsin found, is that the former Democrat Governor and his Commie regime was turning them into Greece with debt and Commie give aways. They elected Walker and he’s changing it radically, in a fiscal sense, putting it on sound financial ground, and people are warming up to that.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:58pmWhoa, Tommy “Machine Gun” Thompson. The most popular Gov. Of Wisconsin that changed Welfare reform and got the budget under control? Wow, if he beats Tammy, i will count the days until the Dems implode and try to recall him, or try to sue. I will gaaaarrennnteee, there will be a record number of voters in Wisconsin, most of them voting from Minnesota jails, hey, they get free cigarettes and 10 rape free nights if they vote democrat, although we all take it up the wazoo.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:05amWow, I guess I won’t post. You just said exactly what will likely happen.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:08amFree cigarettes????
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:08amTommy vs. Tammy. That race should be fun to watch even if only for all the pundits getting tongue-tied.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:17amYou won’t have to count. You know they’ve already got the paper work drawn up for either a recall or a lawsuit.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 12:49am@ Spike
Report Post »But even with MASSIVE Voter Fraud.
they lose in Landslide Numbers.
as in Scott Walker.
Wisconsin is coming to their Senses.
Next Stop Minnesota !
Al Franken REALLY ????
I’m Sure there are some TEA Party People
to take out that UNFUNNY Former Comedian.
Turned Senator . Even with Trunkloads of Illegal Votes.
It‘s about Numbers Folks Make you’re Polling Place
Look Like Chick-Fil-A .
bigdaddyt46
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:50amyep when Tommy was in office things here in Wisconsin were running smooth. there were a few things i did disagree with but overall it was great. that’s why he kept getting re-elected all the time. Doyle(a demon rat) in his first 4 months almost completely wiped out what Tommy took 16 years to build. that’s why Walker won so easily.
speaking of Minnesota and also Michigan(sorry detroitpaperboy).
Q:you know why Minneota and Michigan men hate Wisconsin men dating their women?
Report Post »A: you ever seen a golpher or wolverine hole after a badger has been in it.
teddrunk
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:06amActually you’re not far off with the free cigarettes. A wealthy Bill Clinton supporter, during one of his campaigns, was caught on film in Milwaukee bribing people down on their luck at the rescue mission with packs of cigarettes traded for rides & votes for Comrade Clinton. The moron forgot the rescue mission is across the street from WISN-TV 12.
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