The Politics of the Wisconsin State Fair 2007

I love going to Wisconsin's annual summer celebration, the State Fair.

The music, the animals, the people, and the food, all those fantastic foods served on a stick -- I absolutely love it all.

If you haven't had a Wisconsin State Fair cream puff, you haven't lived.

There have been some major changes in the past five years, like the new grandstand and the Exposition Center, but the fair is so steeped in tradition that even those changes were incorporated into the atmosphere almost seamlessly.

This year, there are some changes at Herb Kohl's Milk Barn.

An improvement: You no longer pick one of the lines. Everyone gets in the same snake line. I like that since I always seem to get in the slowest moving one.

Not an improvement: For years, the Daily Schedule of Events booklet has had a coupon offering two cups of milk for the price of one. Not this year. Kohl gets elected to another term and then he raises his prices. That's cheesy.

As always, I have to check out the Exposition Center with all the salespeople hawking their wares -- slicers, dicers, juicers, cookware, blenders, mops, miracle cleaners, etc.

As always, the Republican and Democrat parties of Wisconsin have booths there.

The Republicans had a wide selection of '08 presidential campaign buttons for Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson. There was even a Thompson and Thompson ticket button, Fred and Tommy.

I don't remember seeing any John McCain buttons. I'm 100% certain there were none for Ron Paul.

The Democrats didn't have anything like that at their booth. There were a few old signs posted -- Doyle-Lawton, Feingold, Kohl, and Gwen Moore. There were no signs relating to the '08 presidential campaign. None.

There were two signs that I found very revealing.

They said:

IMPEACH BUSH NOW

Among the names of Wisconsin's governor and U.S. senators are two signs crying out to IMPEACH BUSH NOW.

This is what the Democrat Party of Wisconsin wants to promote to the mobs of people at the State Fair.

The Democrats actually think it's a good idea to present such a loony message. It's what they stand for.







The Democrats are the party of impeachment.

They want fairgoers to associate the call to impeach President Bush with Doyle, Kohl, Feingold, and Moore.

Very nice, Dems.