Joe Walsh Implodes: The Walsh presidential campaign will not make it off the tarmac

During the summer of 2012, I campaigned for Joe Walsh. I manned the phones for him, I went door to door for him, and I attended his events. That October, I witnessed the third debate between Walsh and Tammy Duckworth (who would go on to win the election), which was not so much a debate than it was a large-scale shoutdown by the latter’s supporters. Outside the event, I wasted fifteen minutes trying to get a sentence in against some rambunctious, spittle-drenched animal who mistook his arrant girth for intimidation.

I supported Joe Walsh because he had spent the previous two years in Congress doing what he had campaigned to do. He forewent government provided healthcare for himself and his wife, in principled opposition to socialized medicine. When in D.C., he slept on an air mattress in his office rather than use taxpayer funds to stay in posh hotels. During his tenure, he held 363 town hall meetings, all open to the public, which was more than any other congressperson. He refused to budge an inch on increasing the deficit. I met him a few times, and he seemed an over-caffeinated yet nice enough bloke. But he put his money where his mouth was, and for that reason I was willing to donate my time and efforts to his campaign.

After his campaign loss, he continued to support local conservative candidates and engage in political activity. In 2013 he launched a radio show. At first, I tuned in regularly. But Walsh’s on-air shtick is “always yelling, always angry, all the time,” and it wears on a listener fairly quickly.

As of this writing, his campaign website has zero information on it other than an anti-Trump rant and a way to donate money. Because immediately following his announcement, he genuflected to the media (ABC, MSNBC, and CNN, to name a few) with a groveling apology tour. He recruited George Conway and William “Kiss of Death” Kristol for his campaign. No serious Republican contender quips that they’re on the verge of voting for socialists like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders rather than the man who’s done more to advance conservatism than anyone since Reagan.

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