The reason most often--usually exclusively--given for why Kathleen Falk should have entered the Wisconsin Attorney General's race is Peg Lautenschlager's 2004 DUI. Falk and Peg are not so different on the issues, and either one would be a great AG (and we have the evidence of that for Peg from her term so far). The anti-Peg forces just figured that the DUI would drive droves of normally Democrat voters toward the Republican candidate, and bringing in Falk would make for an easy, clean election.
Instead, we are going to get a full frickin' year of the DUI story.
This article today, for example, is just a harbinger of what's likely to come. Even when all of the candidates quoted in the article are careful to say, "Oh, I never talk about Peg's DUI," it's going to continue throughout the primary season to be the big story that's on the front page that no one talks about.
My thoughtfully conservative friend Dean is right: "If I were a Democrat," he writes, "or even a moderate, I wouldn't be worried. As far as I'm concerned, she made a mistake and admitted it and it should be over." Dean is a moderate ( ;P ), and when he listens to the arguments presented by the two sides in the new Democratic primary, he is unpersuaded. If the signal on our side is getting buried under the DUI noise Falk's entry to the race has created, then we are most definitely losing.
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