Potential bombshell in WI recall

Things are getting strange in Wisconsin. The Republicans are fielding fake Democratic challengers so the D's will have to spend time and money on a primary -- and the election calendar will get moved back, so Republicans will have more time to collect money from billionaires and CEOs.

The Washington Post's Greg Sargent reports today that Democrats are starting to think they need to field fake Republican challengers just so they can stay competitive.

He calls it a potential bombshell:

We Are Wisconsin ... argues that the strategic and on-the-ground implications of the GOP tactics are far more complex and serious a threat to Dem chances than has been publicly explained. They argue that if Republicans do this and Dems don’t, the GOP will be able to dictate the election calendar with a free hand, deciding which general recall elections happen on July 12th and which on August 9th — a huge strategic advantage for Republicans.

Without GOP primaries, the group argues, GOP state senators will automatically advance to the general recall elections, allowing Republican voters in their districts to vote for the fake, GOP-backed “Democratic” candidates in the Dem primaries, making it more likely that the real Dem loses the primary and doesn’t even advance to the recall election. (If there’s also a GOP primary, Republican voters won’t be able to vote in both primaries under Wisconsin law.) And without GOP primaries, all the unlimited outside national conservative money could be channeled into boosting the fake “Democrat” and annhilating the real Dem.

Quite a tangled web indeed.