I’ve heard that some Republicans, including radio host Charlie Sykes, are upset that a few Democrats tweeted suggestions for good things Mary Burke might have said about Scott Walker in the first gubernatorial debate.
Among those tweets was a suggestion from Lori Compas, formerly a state senate candidate, and currently a photographer and leader of a business group (the Wisconsin Business Alliance).
Here’s what Mrs. Compas wrote:
He's good at following directions. #SaySomethingNiceAboutScott; #kochbrothers
— Lori Compas (@LightReading) October 11, 2014
No one on the Right has a sense of humor?
Honest to goodness that’s funny – it’s well & tersely expressed.
I’m a libertarian, not a major-party supporter, but have Republicans (and Democrats in other circumstances) lost any appreciation for a well-delivered remark?
I don’t know Lori Compas, but I did post a few times on her senate campaign.
Less than a generation ago, politicians would often appreciate rivals’ or opponents’ jokes.
It’s all so serious – too serious – now.
By the way, like almost all libertarians from old, movement families, I’ve no fondness for Charles & David Koch. They walked away from our party and movement, trying unsuccessfully to gain control of the libertarian Cato Institute along the way. They’ve now a seemingly unquenchable thirst for major-party influence.
Gov. Walker, Mary Burke, the Koch Brothers, etc., and their respective supporters should be able to take a joke with equanimity.
Especially, I’d think, a clever one.