ADDED: George Will writes his column today about Ron Johnson:
This 55-year-old manufacturer of plastic products from Oshkosh, Wis., is what the Tea Party looks like.Here's video of Johnson speaking at the April 15th Tea Party in Madison. I saw some of the speakers there that day, when Tommy Thompson dropped out of the Senate race, creating the opportunity for new Republicans to run.
He is trim, gray-haired and suddenly gray-suited. For years he has worn jeans and running shoes to his office...
The theme of his campaign, the genesis of which was an invitation to address a Tea Party rally, is: "First of all, freedom." Then? "Then you've got to put meat on the bones." He gets much of his meat from the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages....
"The most basic right," Johnson says, "is the right to keep your property." Remembering the golden age when, thanks to Ronald Reagan, the top income tax rate was 28 percent, Johnson says: "For a brief moment we were 72 percent free."
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