Isn’t This How We Got Obama?

For some inexplicable reason, the delegates at the GOP convention endorsed Ron Johnson for Senate, a candidate who had been a candidate for only slightly longer than five minutes (6 days, I believe it was). People I trust tell me he is the real deal, but other than from a few awesome speeches, what do we know about him? He’s a businessman, a millionaire, a tea party activist,... and what else?

The other candidates for Senate have been out there for awhile, and we’ve had time to see what they are about. We’ve had time to see that Terrance Wall is a conservative. He has loads of money to pour into his campaign, has been flooding our mailboxes with literature, but his tax issues might be a problem. We know that Westlake is right on when it comes to issues but is about as good at raising money as my 9 year old is at making her bed—their hearts are in the right place, but it ain’t gonna happen.  We had only a short time with Dick Leinenkugel, but we were able to learn his ideas from his failure to distance himself from Doyle’s business-killing policies. But what do we know about Ron Johnson? And do we know enough about him to endorse him above all the other candidates in the race?

I want Ron Johnson to be the real deal. I really, really, really, really do. But I think that we are so desperate to come up with a candidate to go up against Russ Feingold that we are subconsciously (or even consciously) each projecting our own wishes for a candidate onto Ron Johnson and crowning him without really knowing what he is about. I hope that we don’t find out after the election (or before!) that he is all speeches and no substance.

Prove me wrong, Ron Johnson. Please.