Duane; You do know that you are a socialist. Our socialist capitalism infrastructure has been your pride and joy all of your life. Socialism is evident in all societies.
Even S&P and Moody have implied that what the Tea republicans have wrought upon our nation is failure. Investors around the world know of the racist ignorance within our politics that is seeking our demise through their sanctimonious bigotry. They have not provided not one JOB in 240 days in the House and produced no revenue. Lost JOBS yes. Lost opportunities to promote JOBS yes. Serious measures to stabilize our financing, NO, NO, NO, party of. Their only focus from day one was and is to get that black dude out, at all cost. Those are your leaders you follow. You and your kind has illuminated through out the world your self imploding ideologies. They see opportunities in your failures. Profits to be made at your demise. Just as we saw benefits to be had with the implosion of communisis they now see benefits to be had from the implosion of our capitalism due to ignorance and mythological bigotry.
http://youtu.be/bbw4buuCnSw Recruitments for the next Tea Party.

Wow Lyle, I think this is the first time I saw you acknowledging someone as a Madison liberal, verified that they are indeed crazy. Also, how tolerant of you to denounce all her attributes that your side has tried to promote and defend for years.

@Nate...I didn't say Tammy was crazy. All I said is I don't know if the state is ready for her.

No, Lyle, I wasn't implying that. However, to give you relief with your concern over one of her attributes, that being sexuality, she would be replacing a fellow member of that disease.

@Nate...disease? How is it a disease? It is only a sexual orientation that people are born with. There is nothing wrong with them. The APA dropped it as a diagnosed malady or condition long ago.

@Nate, it's no longer considered a disease.

Late to the party here -- is Herb Kohl gay? I've heard some mean-spirited whispering, but I didn't realize he was 'out'. I couldn't care less. I'm more interested in what my representatives in Congress do on the floor of that legislative body than how they spend their time when they go home at night.

@Bob McBride...She must get out as soon as possible and expose herself to the people of the state. This will also be a vetting process and we'll see what the LGBT community will do and her reaction to it.

I don't know that I would have chosen the term "expose herself", but I understand what you're saying.

As a conservative, I'm encouraged by the words of the other Tammy here and certainly hope that Baldwin, the LGBT community and various alliances of "progressive" organizations don't attempt to court "the red counties" and continue on as they have since January of this year. I look forward to more in-your-face antics including, but not limited to, scarecrows, costumes, street theater, inappropriate appearances at events for the less fortunate in society, goofballs on Segways, camping out in public buildings and, of course, banging on buckets.

i'm all for the various flavors of "progressive" wearing their affiliation proudly on their sleeves. Not only is it entertaining, but it's probably the only thing that might create some sort of tailwind for Mark Neumann or some other equally vanilla candidate.

Mark Neumann vs Ron Kind? Wake me up when it's time to hit the polls.

Baldwin vs Neumann - could be sort of interesting.

Baldwin vs Thompson - Now there's YouTube gold.

Tammy Wolfgram...I would prefer Tammy Baldwin as my US Senator, but I don't know that she can win a statewide race.

@Ben Hogan...Reality check! In today's political environment, anything goes. Just watch and see.

It's more likely to be used by her supporters, as it was with Obama's, as a reason not to address any criticism of her whatsoever. Just as those who question Obama are labeled racist, those who question her will likely be labeled as homophobic. That's one of the benefits of defining yourself or your candidate as part of an oppressed minority - the all purpose conversation stopper when the issues being discussed start hitting a little too close to home.

@Nate...It may be a lesbian forum, but there's a lot of brain power there.

More brain than brawn. I'm so cold.

@Nate. Just keep a dictionary handy, what a great learning opportunity for you! What does it say about people when they are uncomfortable with others' sexual preferences? Why do you keep bringing it up? Didn't I read somewhere that in this country we are supposed to believe we are all created equal? The first definition for equal on dictionary.com is "as great as." Doesn't say "the same as" or must believe, think, act, earn, or be attracted to the same. Hypocrisy is getting tiresome--and dangerous in light of all the damage that has been done to all the "equals." Hmmm, equal rights, too. How have you championed that lately?

Mrs. Wilkinson, I could care less about sexual orientation as long as it's kept private and not infused in every day living as our society as been bombarded with through the media. It was Lyle I was calling out for pointing at it as your side likes to do for the sole purpose of political gain.

Golly, Nate, it must really offend you every time a political candidate trots out the adoring wife and the 2.5 'slightly above average' kids at the rallies.

@Duane Michalski...Please provide me your source and link.

lyle, you can look on their websites. I would provide the links , but for whatever reason my laptop will not allow me to copy and paste. I have not checked baldwins web site lately but it was also on there last i checked. Sorry I can not be more helpful. I would also encourage you to see that the socialist party also just endorsed Obama . So did the communist party of America.

@Duane Michalski...I did the research and you certainly used a great deal of spin on your accusation. Rep. Baldwin is a member of the Progressive Caucus and that is who the Democratic Socialists pledge their support. No big surprises here. Also, the Democratic Socialists are not communists. They are not advocating government control of the means of production or planning. The more I research Tammy the more I like her.

Interesting. The more I learn about her, the more I think I may have to revise my initial analysis. She's going to have a harder time playing down her lefty leanings than I suspected. And, if as it appears, those on her side of the fence have learned nothing from the general reaction to some of the antics pulled during the hissy fit over collective bargaining modifications, it may be darn near impossible.