Why Is Wisconsin A Blue State?

Maybe because Joe The Plumber is the Wisconsin Republican Party's idea a star. He was the biggest name at their conservative confab...

MILWAUKEE—Attendees at a gathering of activists today enthusiastically embraced calls to stick to long-time conservative principles and grassroots action in an effort to win back the Congress and White House from Democrats

That sentiment was expressed most bluntly by Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, also known as “Joe the Plumber." He called on conservatives to be persistent and warned of a “long road ahead” with four years of Obama and a Republican Party that he said lacks leadership and direction.

“Unfortunately we have a chairman up there who wants to redefine conservatism; he wants to make it hip hop, put it in a new package and sell it,” Wurzelbacher said, knocking Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, whose recent statements, including a dismissive comment about talk show host Rush Limbaugh that he’s since apologized for, have drawn the ire of some conservatives.

“You can’t sell principles; either you have them or you don’t,” Wurzelbacher said to applause from most of the 800 in attendance. “

‘We the people’ have to stand up and get busy,” said Wurzelbacher. “American citizens need to be their own lobbyists.”

Remember, the Republican Party was born in Ripon Wisconsin