Hey Wisconsin Republican Voters, feeling manipulated and played for suckers yet?

While illegally obtained information leaked to the public about Democrats makes sense to Republicans, they’re quick to discount equally damaging disclosures leaked about their own deceptive tactics to trick their own voters…because they can without blowback?

Now hear this: Republicans were caught, plain and simple, lying about election fraud as a defensive tactic to piss off their base, sending them into a blind rage. As a side note and former radio talk host, I can't imagine duped right-wing talkers are too happy knowing they got played:

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JS-Dan Bice: Republican insiders discussed ginning up concerns over voter fraud in the days after then-Supreme Court Justice David Prosser narrowly defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in April 2011.

"Do we need to start messaging 'widespread reports of election fraud' so we are positively set up for the recount regardless of the final number? I obviously think we should," wrote Steve Baas, a senior vice president with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, to a group of conservative operatives on April 6, 2011, a day after the Prosser-Kloppenburg contest.

"Yes. Anything fishy should be highlighted," wrote former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, a Republican. "Stories should be solicited by talk show hosts."

Asked to clarify his email, Jensen said on Wednesday, "The British newspapers are world famous for printing illegally obtained information. I am disappointed that is now the standard at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel."

“Guilty as charged” is the phrase I think Scott Jensen was looking for in that word salad about the British media.

Election Fraud Bullshit: Let the above comments be "exhibit A" in the court arguments against the long list of voter suppression laws based on outright lies:

Rick Hasen, a national election law expert, said on his blog on Wednesday that the email exchange suggests that much of the talk about voter fraud is "all about manipulating Republican public opinion." He added, "This cynical 'messaging' is sadly validating of what many of us have said."

Caught, but Deny, Deny, Deny: When asked about the John Doe emails trying to gin up fears over voter fraud just in case the supreme court election didn't go their way, Republican Rep. Robin Vos skipped right over the apparent ploy, and quickly blamed angry liberal Wisconsinites committing fraud and "doing all kinds of different things, to try to gin up the number of voters." Gee, wouldn't want more voters.

This grotesque example of projection tells us a lot about what Republicans would do themselves, and definitely, have:

Vos: "...the election worked out just fine....it's the reality of what we worry about in every election with the "left." Where they're willing to do whatever it takes to win, even if it means things like "smokes for votes," and all the things that we've seen in the past. It was wide spread. And now with voter ID we have a lot less concern."

First, "smokes for votes" involved bribing the homeless with cigarettes to vote, so voter ID would have not have had an impacted...and the millionaire responsible got caught and paid a fine. Gee, the election laws on the books worked. But "all the things we've seen?" Searching my blog...:

Bradblog: All eight (Republican) defendants in Clay County, Kentucky's election fraud trial have been found guilty today by a federal jury. Six of those eight were high-ranking election officials, including the county clerk, a circuit judge and the school superintendent.

The community organization ACORN has never been charged with, or found guilty of aiding in the illegal casting of a single vote. Ever. Anywhere. No actual evidence has ever been presented in support of such a charge either

From Upfront with Mike Gousha.

Voucher Entitlement Privateers ready to soak up Taxpayer money in the name of educating our kids. Hucksters $2.4 million Advertising Campaign Worked.

Money isn't a corrupting force in politics? So say the conservative activist Supreme Court Justices. Let’s be adults, and admit we know that’s not true, but hey, everything is relative nowadays.

Conservative voter’s should feel like suckers after reading the following in today's paper:

jsonline-Dan Bice: The American Federation for Children, one of the leading advocates for school choice in the country, brags in a recent brochure that it spent more than $325,000 - far more than the group has previously made public - to help elect state Sen. Rick Gudex …  Gudex won his seat by less than 600 votes.

Suckers…

Last week, the freshman lawmaker (said he was) drawing a line in the sand by vowing to oppose a state budget bill if it doesn't include an expansion of the state's school voucher program.

"The American Federation of Children got exactly what they wanted," said Mike McCabe, head of the left-leaning election watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. "They want legislators who will go to the mat and make expanding the voucher program the bottom line."

It's that simple. School choice is simply an effort by private groups to dip into the bottomless pockets of taxpayers.

According to the brochure picture above (click to enlarge), these lobbyists spent $2.4 million in Wisconsin electing supporters. Ask yourself why anyone would spend that kind of money if they didn't expect to get a return on their investment.

The leading lobbyists of choice "coincidentally" are former Republican leaders from our state legislature! And they spout silly feel good slogans like my favorite “parents know what’s best.” They may know what their kids like when it comes to the toys they buy and the food they eat, but education? What do they know after 10 or 20 years out of school? They don’t. I didn't.

Voucher "entitlement" lobbyists spent $2.4 million to convince voters…about 600 voters in this case, to give their money away. Money Corrupts:

Just as interesting, McCabe said, is that the school choice organization is saying in its own material that it spent twice as much helping Gudex as it reported to state regulators. McCabe said his group is looking into filing an election complaint. A source familiar with the American Federation's political spending in Wisconsin called such a complaint "frivolous."

Frivolous? Not unless you admit your intentions:

Special-interest groups don't have to report their expenditures on so-called "issue ads" ... (which) educate the public on issues but not advocate the election of particular candidates. McCabe said it's clear that in its brochure is claiming that its issue ads helped elect Gudex and many other candidates. He said he considers that a violation of Wisconsin election laws. "They're saying candidates won, in part, because of our phony issue ads," McCabe said. "This shows what a sham this whole game is."

In a brochure documenting its political successes, the American Federation for Children says it spent nearly $2.4 million helping candidates in Wisconsin in 2012. Former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen is a point man for the group in Wisconsin.

Remember when a jury found Scott Jensen guilty of 3 felony counts in the state Capitol caucus scandal, and those counts were dismissed by a conservative judge. Anybody still wanna to believe this voucher entitlement crook?