Preparing for the 'worst'

Just in case their red-baiting doesn't work, conservatives like the Journal Sentinel's Patrick McIlheran are preparing for the worst -- passage of some anti-Iraq war referenda questions in a number of Wisconsin communities on April 4.

McIlheran's Sunday column makes all of the excuses in advance, as Jay Bullock points out in his thorough analysis.

On a related note, aren't you a little tired of the right-wing suggestion that local governments and local voters really have no business taking a stand on the war, because it's "a federal issue?"