Is Wisconsin The New Nigeria?

Blown away by the audacity of the Wisconsin GOP.

I don't know what to think about this issue of the 7500 votes mysteriously turning up in Wisconsin's Supreme Court case.  Ed has a good take on it here.  Hawes' Law says that when choosing  between conspiracy and incompetence, always bet on incompetence.  But too much of this stinks.

I do know that the GOP would be flipping its shit if the inverse had happened and a trailing Democrat had suddenly received a massive amount of votes from an overwhelmingly Democratic district overseen by a partisan Democratic election official.  I think we all know how that would play out.

So much stinks about this: the individual involved, the exact number of votes needed to avoid a recount, the location.

And the fact that it's Wisconsin and with all that that state's GOP has come to symbolize: from Scott Walker to the Scott Fitzgerald to Paul Ryan and now this clown who misplaces thousands of votes...

It does make one worry.

Wisconsin was once the laboratory of progressivism under guys like Fighting Bob LaFollete.

Maybe it's time for Thomas Franks to write What's The Matter With Wisconsin.