Did TABOR backers learn anything?

Sponsors of the Stupid Constitutional Amendment To Control All Taxes (sometimes known as SCAT CAT) say they learned a few things in their humiliating defeat in this legislative session.

Steve Walters, their publicity chairman, lists the lessons in the Journal Sentinel. Things like have a better name. Don't start so late. Don't change it every five minutes. Stay away from Colorado.

Here are a couple more, which I'll offer for free: Get a friggin clue. Have a better idea. Don't attack local government. Get out of southeastern Wisconsin and talk to some people. Listen to a different radio station once in awhile. Oh -- and don't wait for Mark Green to offer any help or leadership.

Here's wishing you worse luck next time.

By the way, TABOR opponents learned a few things, too. A coalition of 40-plus groups worked for months to insure the amendment's defeat. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, which supported it, ran campaigns in the districts of six Republican State Senators who were thought to be undecided. (In Walter's story WMC is a "business group," while the opponents are "special interest groups.") The anti-TABOR forces did the same, with radio, mail, phone, and personal contact with Senators in those same six disticts. When the vote came, all six voted no.

Earlier: It's quiet out there post-TABOR.

UPDATE: Owen Robinson offers his analysis of what went wrong, and has sparked quite a discussion among TABOR supporters on Boots& Sabers.