Tim Nerenz:

The perpetual hissy fit that is the Union Democrat Party in this state has launched its campaign to recall Governor Scott Walker.  The rallying cry of Walker’s Republican supporters is “I stand with Scott Walker”.

Well, not me. I don’t stand with Scott Walker.

Nope.  I stand for the right to work.  I stand against compulsory unionization.  I stand for the right of every employee to join a union, and for the equal right of every employee to work free of union impairment.  I stand for the right of every union to collect its own dues directly from its members.  I stand for the right of every business owner to deal directly with his/her employees or to work through an intermediary as he or she sees fit.  I stand for the right of any business to refrain from political activity altogether without being targeted for boycotts by extortionists.  …

I stand for fiscal responsibility.  I stand for balancing the state budget.  I stand for making government services both accessible and affordable.  I stand for repaying our old debts and not taking on any new ones.  I stand against raiding trust funds set up for one purpose to pay for another.  I stand against increasing taxes on the overtaxed to fund lavish new benefits for the over-lavished.  …

I stand for letting local school boards, teachers, parents, and taxpayers decide how best to educate their kids.  I stand for rewarding the great teachers and I stand against letting the bad ones waste one more hour of our children’s precious learning time.  I stand against spineless administrators, conniving pension-grubbers, placeholders counting down their days to retirement and serial indoctrinators who see 4th graders as political props. …

I stand against the seizure of our public places, the occupation of our streets.  I stand against those whose twisted moral compass equates breaking a monopoly with killing millions of Jews. …

I stand for jobs.  I stand for job-creators.  I stand for free markets, lower taxes, and sensible regulation.  I stand for a business climate that attracts employers, not one that drives them away.  I stand for private property rights for every citizen.  I stand for developing our natural resources, for encouraging entrepreneurs, for rewarding hard work and for celebrating those who succeed in global competition. …

I don’t let the Koch brothers or Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or Vicki McKenna to tell me what to think.  I am a grown man, a self-sovereign with my own conscience and beliefs.  Those beliefs do not include overturning election results because my side didn’t win.  We have learned that the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker was initiated before he even took office; this has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with privilege. …

The Democrat Party in the state of Wisconsin believes they have a Divine right to rule; perhaps it explains why so many are hostile to real Divinity.  It is inconceivable to them that the citizens of this state would have decided to give the Republicans an opportunity to fix what the Democrats could not or would not. It is humiliating to them that their coarse and unrefined rivals achieved in just a few months what they could not do in a decade.  Their panic is understandable, but that does not make it actionable for the rest of us. …

I will not tell you “I stand with Scott Walker” and slam the door in your face.  I will tell you instead that I stand for Liberty, and then I will ask you why you will not stand with me.  It is a reasonable question, and I expect you to answer it.  It is the least you can do if you want me to help you turn the whole state upside down to rehash your grievance over again for the umpteenth time.

Nerenz (who is a Libertarian,  not a Republican) adds: “I don’t stand with Scott Walker.  Scott Walker stands with me.” And the only thing I can add to this is a popular phrase from my UW days: What he said.