Terrance Wall, former Republican candidate for US Senate, is still mad at his treatment by the GOP establishment and their anointment of another inexperienced rich guy, Ron Johnson. He's still complaining over at the online In Business.
Wall is angry that he spent so much time on the Lincoln Day Dinner circuit and that Ron Johnson "...chose to miss out on this critical training exercise." " If the candidate won't take the time to meet the voters during the campaign, they're certainly not going to take the time after they're elected."
Wall has praise for the likely GOP candidate for governor, Scott Walker:
That guy is the hardest working candidate I have ever seen. Not only did he attend more dinners than any other candidate, but he was making stops in between at Menard's, the local mall, and the Universities to shake even more hands. I once saw him finish breakfast at Perkins one day and then go around the table by table introducing himself.
Wall also explained what Lincoln Day speakers did to keep themselves amused during the endless repetitions of their speeches:
As you can imagine, after a couple dozen of these Lincoln Day dinners, and after hearing each others' speeches so many times, the candidates needed something to make the process more interesting. Eventually, a few candidates created a game they would play just to keep the Circuit entertaining. The candidates would challenge each other by coming up with an odd ball word that another candidate would have to include in his or her speech, like "giraffe." Amazingly, the candidates time and time again would manage to work their word into speeches to avoid losing the challenge, resulting in an uneasy moment in which only the other candidates were laughing while the general audience tried to figure out what was so funny.
As Waxing America observed previously, Wall is still in great need of an editor beyond Word's spellchecker. Example: "...the kind of title wave that is coming in November." In Business promises more Wall campaign musings next week.
- Barry Orton
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