On September 18, 2010, I blogged this:
Rebecca Kleefisch – This was, perhaps, the most disappointing result of the night. While I appreciate Kleefisch’s overt support for Christian values, I got the feeling that she was using them as a tool to get votes for her campaign for Lieutenant Governor. I wasn’t comfortable with that. Further, I was not impressed with her discussion of issues. She campaigned as the most conservative Republican in the race, and I am shamed that GOP voters took that at face value, didn’t ask tough questions of her (like they did of Brett Davis), and nominated her overwhelmingly. Kleefisch has strong potential to become a sideshow in the fall campaign and, at some point, the Walker campaign will have to spend precious news cycles addressing something she said – or a relationship she endangered. I thought Davis or Dave Ross would have been just fine – and would have been qualified to run the state should Walker become incapacitated or leave office. I do not have that confidence with Kleefisch, a news reader.
Let me repeat a portion of that:
Kleefisch has strong potential to become a sideshow in the fall campaign and, at some point, the Walker campaign will have to spend precious news cycles addressing something she said…
Wow. And I’m not even that smart. Are you happy now, Mark Belling and Charlie Sykes?
For the record, I do not disagree with Kleefisch’s point. But how could she possibly think that a wise thing to say in the midst of a superheated gubernatorial campaign? I mean, really?
