As the election draws nearer, Johnson is melting under the bright lights.
A few days ago he was asked by the solid-Republican Green Bay Press Gazette about his jobs plan for the middle class and he literally shrugged and said, "we've got to get the economy moving." That resulted in Feingold getting the endorsement of the paper-- the first time the paper has ever endorsed Feingold and of the rare times the paper has ever endorsaed a Democrat.
The problem with Johnson is that he doesn't know all kinds of things, so he doesn't know what he doesn't know. Wouldn't it be great if he said that on video?
Well, yesterday at a student forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee he did just that: When the questioner asked him how being a U.S. Senator would differ from being a chief executive, Johnson said it wouldn't be "all that different" and said:
I don't know all kinds of things, so I don't know what I don't know. So, when you approach a problem in business my tendency, my first action is to call in the experts. Talk to people who actually do know and have information on whatever the issue is.
Of course all Senators rely on experts, but not knowing what he doesn't know is a fundamental problem with Johnson.
Humorously, Wisconsin's boy-wonder Paul Ryan had this to say about Ron Johnson in July:
"He’s not one of these wealthy guys who decides to run for office one day and doesn’t know what he doesn’t know."