AN ACTUAL MEANINGLESS AMERICAN ELECTION

I never thought that, in the United States of America, I would participate in an absolutely meaningless election.  Yet, that is exactly what happened yesterday, May 8, 2012 in  this state of Wisconsin.

Some recent history is necessary here.  In the 2010 Wisconsin gubinatorial election, there was a distinct difference in governance philosophies.  On the one hand, let's call it the left, there is a tax and spend and steal philosophy that is still prevalent at the federal level.  That is, spend money that we do not have, tax all exhorbitantly to the point where businesses fled the state and unemployment soared.  Stealing occurred from itself by taking from funds moneies constitutionally intended for other  specific purposes, thereby ignoring their own rules.
On the other hand, the right, was a unique concept of lowering taxes, eliminating imposed fees and, the unholies of the unholies, rescinding public unionized collective bargaining that was costing the state and other governmental bodies billions of dollars in unnecessary over paying.

The voters decided on the right hand.  So, the losers, those preferring the left hand, decided that it was their responsibility to make sure that a do-over was to be forthcoming.  So, after months of making complete horses asses of themselves by screaming and yelling at any and all events at which prominent conservatives appeared, occupying the state Capitol 24-hours a day for months with paid protestors and, ulimately, waiting an entire year to collect signautres on recall petitions, we came to yesterday.

A primary election was necessary to cull the herd of Demokrats for the purpose of having a do-over for a duly elected Governor, Lt. Governor and four state Senators because, god forbid, they did exactly what they promised they would do, specifically, clean up a democrat mess of eight years in the matter of six months.

The good thing is that, even though the sitting Governor had a faux candidate to force a primary, he still garnered more votes than the two top vote-getters on the othe side combined!  And it was "their" election to boot.  Payback is a hard lesson.