This is starting to really piss me off...

Let me be the first to ask:

Where is the response to all the negative, even hateful things being said about and to Gov. Scott Walker?  After years of listening to the call from liberals that the Tea Party is a party of hatred, racism and intolerance... the liberal response to Walker's winning the recall by a larger margin than he won the initial election is making me damn-near nauseous.

If any conservative pundit or host fails to mention this disparity of action between the rhetoric spewed out after the recall and that which was "perceived" to come from the Tea Party and its supporters... well, I'll be very disappointed.

Frankly, I think it all boils down to this...

The people of Wisconsin decided to go to the polls and say that THEY, the people of Wisconsin, decide how government in Wisconsin is going to run... not the labor unions.  The people voted for Walker because he accomplished (or started to accomplish) what he had promised to do:  balance a budget... not because he was a Republican Party member.

Stop talking about what all this "means" in November... it means almost nothing.  What it "shows" us (as Jambo pointed out in his brief little blurb) is that the attitude of the average voter seems to be moving away from the left and closer to the center of the political spectrum, once again.  Walker is NOT an ultra-conservative, libertarian-leaning GOP stand out... he's not even as conservative as Paul Ryan, his good friend in the House.  What he IS is a man that set out to do what he said he was going to do... and who accomplished a helluva lot is a really short time.  THAT is the message that should resonate... not that the GOP won and Labor lost.

So, this is what DIDN'T or WON'T happen:

Wisconsin has NOT suddenly become a hot-bed of conservative sentiment.  Romney is NOT going to win Wisconsin in November.  Walker is NOT going to be nominated as the VP candidate for the GOP ticket.

This is what DID or WILL happen:

Labor took a HUGE black eye last Tuesday... spending millions upon millions of hard-earned dues on a losing campaign and gaining NOTHING as a result.  States around the Union are going to start looking long and hard at how they do business with Big Labor, especially States like New York, Ohio, Illinois, and (dare I say it?) California.  As far as State employees go, I'd say we might be seeing the end of the "closed shop" era... and that could be a very good thing.