Now that the Wisconsin people have chosen Judge Michael Gabelman to replace incumbent Judge Louis Butler on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the (yes, yes, I’m going to have to say it) predictable, all too predictable shouting and crying has come from the Left.
Butler is the first incumbent judge to be ousted by elections in over forty years in Wisconsin. He was appointed by Democrat Governor Jim Doyle (who is busy not in Wisconsin but in North Carolina as I write this, trying to get The Black Guy nominated for the Democratic Presidential candidacy) back in 2004 in order to fill a sudden Court vacancy. (Normally, a Supreme Court justuce in Wisconsin serves for 10 years.)
Like any Leftist Liberal, Butler drew his energy and support from trial lawyers and “organized labor”—in other words, people who are chronically victimized and their blood sucking enablers.
Leftist Liberals further this delusional view, as it helps them stay in and get more power.
But judge Gabelman was supported by “business interests”. That is, he made decisions from the bench that tended to uphold the law instead of re-write it from the bench in impromptu fashion (that is, like Butler did), and these laws generally state that businesses are generally good; a far cry from perfect and sometimes in need of some legal correction, but generally good.
Apparently, this is the kind of judge that the people of Wisconsin, overall, wish to see sitting in state in their Supreme Court.
The Leftist Liberals, the very day after the election results were in, had already come up with why they did not win. That is, they have come up with the real reason why they did not win.
Because everybody knows or should know that Leftist Liberals never fairly lose elections; there is always a vast Right-wing conspiracy of some shape or form doing sinister work behind the scenes, stealing the election out from under the Liberal candidate. But I digress.
The Leftist Liberals know for a fact that Butler lost because the racist white supremacists came out of the woodwork, inspired by the negative “race-targeting” campaign ads run by the Gabelman campaign, and voted for the typical white guy (who, throughout the campaign, was portrayed in ads run by the Butler supporters as a stupid bobble-head doll).
The state of Wisconsin was surely going to overwhelmingly elect Butler. But all those white racists stepped in and intervened. This is in spite of the fact that several people that this write has corresponded with were unaware that the light-skinned Butler is considered to be black (and they still voted for Gabelman).
(It should be noted that Wisconsin is one of the “whitest” states in the Union.)
Predictably, all too predictably, Governor Doyle pronounced the election results “a tragedy” and has now called into question Wisconsin’s court election laws. He suddenly believes that judges and justices should be appointed, not elected.
Butler was entitled to win! Can’t everybody see that?
Apparently not the editors at the Wall Street Journal, who wrote:
Closely watched nationally…the hotly contested race supposedly shows the need for “merit selection" or public financing in judicial elections. But both sides leveraged roughly the same amount of money, and voters had a choice of two distinct legal philosophies…A seat on the bench is not a sinecure, and justices who abuse or contort the law must sometimes answer for their actions.
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