In a KloJo diary yesterday, someone posted an enthusiastic 'w00t, Kloppenburg Won!' "and she never would have done it without the dedication and hard work of her Kossack friends!" comment. This being the interwebz, someone JUST HAD TO post a 'pfft, NOT' reply.
'Harrumph to your Harrumph' said I, and began a snarky post with shout-outs to a kossack or three* that - in my memory - had boosted my mood and efforts throughout this effin' ordeal. Ooh, there's that kossack. Wait, don't forget this kossack, also. Too.
An hour and a half later, I realized this "masterpiece" should just sprout wings - with some deep-fried curds and a coupl'a pitchers of beer - and become a dairy (heh, Wisconsin, dairy, get it?)!!
BEHOLD, my fromage to Wisconsin Kossack Winners, DK4-style...
Here's the (no offense) grump:
i am very glad she won, but to say that it NEVER would have happened without this website in particular, well that is quite absurd.
My ever-expanding beer/cheese/brat-belly reply that I didn't post there:
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Are you really unaware of the tremendous energy and visibility THIS, YES THIS, WEBSITE channeled, coalesced and magnified re the massive protests, the WI 14's escape, Walker's epic Koch-Call pwning, Fitzgerald's red-faced 6th grade bluster and rule/law-breaking, the WI 'Palm Trees', the Capitol lockdown, the court saga, the amazing shoe leather and fleece recall efforts, Randy "Bed" Hopper's mistress and finally the FP directly championing JoAnne Kloppenburg??
(Stop and think about all the other mayhem that has occurred here in 7+ weeks: Ian's GLOBAL Pizza; firefighters+bagpipes+kilts in freezing weather; "Kill The Bill!"; visits by Big Ed Schultz and his MSNBC crew, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Jim Hightower and Jesse Jackson; 2 Saturday rallies that hit/topped 100,000 peeps; John Nichols' ubiquitous finger-on-the-pulse segments across progressive radio and Big Ed tv; a##hole Grothman getting locked out of the Capitol and getting, um, some...love from the gathered protesters; TractorCade!!; the statewide Fitz- and Walker-Stalking including the protests of Fitz & crew in DC at their high-roller lobbyist fundraiser; the $7.5 million dollars damage!!11 to the Capitol building by the DFHs; Daily Show's Ed Helms' Apocalypse Now riff heading into wildest Illinois strip-mall land to track down loose cannon Jon Erpenbach (D-Madison); the M&I Bank withdrawals that led to pressuring any WI business that $$ supported Walker's election; FitzWalker ignoring the TRO (x 3); Palin's last minute endorse-tweet of Prosser. Are you effin' kidding me? Damn, somebody should pull a WineRev and write a book about this!!)
You really think voiding Daily Kos' impact of the last 7+ weeks would cost Kloppenburg LESS THAN 204 votes? Really?
Respectfully, logic FAIL. :o)
Hell, Kodiak54's puts-you-right-there photos inspired dozens of protesters -->votes alone!
Who's the bastard responsible for all those BedHopper ads popping up all over Teh Google and Daily Kos? Who's been writing those FP entries and appeals for ActBlue funds for the ongoing efforts to recall the Republican 8? This inexperienced n00b. Coupl'a votes there? Maybe? Sheesh.
I don't know about you, but if it weren't for Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse's daily, um, news houseClearing I would have lost my shit with daily worry. Daily. Shit lost. Not pretty.
What about the overarching awesome activities, info, analysis and updates from invisiblewoman and her effin' sockpuppet Mr Fantastic, kool kitty Puddytat, snow-melt luvin' blue aardvark, video-finding Jud Lounsbury and the one and only Giles...um, what? Erm, Giles Goat Boy?
Add the brave recall petition adventures into hostile territory from stcroix cheesehead, noiseofrain (aka "Hey, Rev. Jackson, gotta minute?") and the aforementioned rabble-rouser uh, Goat Dude (wtf?!). 10-20 Kloppenburg votes get uncovered or solidified here? Uh, yeah.
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UPDATE: The inevitable "D'oh! I forgot kossack 'X'" chuco35 gave us great insight and tools re getting petition signatures by the butt-load. W00t! (h/t to stcroix cheeshead).
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How about when some of us were fuh-reaking about Walker's lockdown of Our House? Who told us to take a breath and calm down? This royal pain-in-the-ass... (best wishes Sir)
Who can forget Rock Strongo's nailing- oops, hammering, no, wait- deeply penetrating work on BedHopper's half-his-age mistress's sweet new didn't-even-need-to-file-an-application State job? Did this turn a few decent, moderate Wisconsinite heads?
Finally, how many WI voters filled in the Kloppenburg arrow due to this out-of-state agitator's smooth, friendly calls? Add his inspiring, cajoling, geographically challenged and eventually threatening diaries to get couch-butt kossacks to drop the cheetos and make their own GOTV calls for the goal-line surge. Think a few WI callees got pumped up and roused their friends? Me, too. Let's call that 25 to the voting booth there.
Justice-elect Kloppenburg's current winning margin is 204 votes out of a combined 1,479,976 votes. Without Daily Kos**, Kloppenburg AND Wisconsin would have lost and been gutted under another 10 years of Justice "I'll Compliment Walker" Prosser (R-Wisconsin Manfacturers & Commerce). And that would have sucked.
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All light snark aside, Sweetest Love to all my born- and honorary-Cheeseheads, Thank You!!
Oh, by the way? This Is What Democracy Looks Like!! W00t!
*I'm sure I've had a brain cramp and missed several Awesome, Vital and Beautiful kossacks who were part of this amazing Team Win. My apologies, YOU Rocked, too! :o)
**Pre-beef shaddap: Yes, this was a very unique and multi-platform effort. Of course facebook and other social networking tools were vital. And the unions. And MoveOn. And meatspace word of mouth. And shaddap. Did I say DK was responsible for all 740,090 votes? No. So shaddap. This is MY diary praising MY favorite Great Orange Satan website and peeps. Harrumph! :o\ And Get Off My Lawn!!