WALKER WITHDRAWAL PLUS FOR CLARKE

[An Opinion Piece]
The withdrawal from the Republican primary for governor by Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker creates an incidental, but not unanticipated shift in the partisan dynamics of the September election.
Why? Because it will open the opportunity for Republicans to cause mischief by voting in the Democratic primary, specifically for their hero Sheriff David Clarke, Wisconsin's most prominent DINO.
Clarke faces opposition in the Democratic primary election from challenger Vince Bobot, who has proclaimed that he is a "real democrat," and not a Democrat In Name Only like you-know-who.
When Bobot entered the race, it was with the expectation that Scott Walker would remain a candidate for the governor's seat. The loyal republicans who got Walker where he is today, it was reasoned, would certainly vote to elevate him to the high office once held by such notable figures of the Grand Old Party as Scott McCallum, Cadwallader Washburn, Jeremiah Rusk and the legendary Edward Scofield.
Wisconsin voters are not permitted to vote across party lines during primary elections. It was reasoned that while the republicans would be busy voting for Walker and therefore prohibited from also casting a vote for Clarke, Bobot's supporters on the democratic side would cast their votes for him, and not for the grandstanding cowboy from State Street.
Now that Walker has withdrawn from the race, and with no other appreciable primary races within the republican party, Walker's supporters will be free to cast their votes in the democratic primary election for Clarke.
Whether republicans will do so, and in sufficient numbers to guarantee reelection for the sheriff remains to be seen. There have been instances in the past when the party faithful have remained at home during primary elections in which there was no race within their party. This noble tradition should be continued.
--Michael Horne