Posted on 03/18/2015 5:17:32 PM PDT by Bratch
Full Title: EXCLUSIVE — MICHELLE MALKIN: SCOTT WALKER DESERVES TO BE VETTED, ‘PROBLEMS’ MUCH BIGGER THAN OUSTED PRO-AMNESTY AIDE
Nationally syndicated conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, founder of the website Twitchy, tells Breitbart News that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker—a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate—needs to be vetted. She also says Walker’s “problems” run much deeper than the decision to hire—then quickly let go of—pro-amnesty communications aide Liz Mair, who had taken shots at Iowa.
“Scott Walker has much bigger problems than the ill-considered hiring and firing of one D.C. operative,” Malkin said in an email.
What does he really stand for and is he fully equipped to bear the slings and arrows of his enemies on a national and global scale? Yes, he fought Big Labor and has managed his state well. But grass-roots activists in his state have long been warning me of his ideological gymnastics on core issues: immigration and education.
He has been on the same side as the progressive Left and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Right: pro-amnesty, pro-massive legal immigration expansionist, and pro-Common Core. He’s been left, right, center, and all over the map.
She added that Washington-based GOP establishment forces are good at backing up establishment politicians, as they seemed to have tried to do to defend Walker and Mair.
“The D.C. consultant class and Capitol Hill GOP operators are adept at swooping in to ‘rescue’ the campaigns of neophytes and molding them into Beltway barnacle tools,” Malkin said. “They did it with Spencer Abraham and Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. Face it: Many of the D.C. messaging ‘experts’ and ‘communicators’ DO have their own policy agenda and it is naive or stupid to believe they have no sway or influence on ambitious, outside the Beltway seekers of higher public office with no fixed principles.”
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It’s gonna get interesting, as Glenn Beck has promoted next Monday’s show to talk about Norquist: claiming today that one personal friend of Norquist, who had previously supported him, was pretty close to changing his mind after seeing the evidence Beck supplied.
Remember - Walker’s had his hands full fending off three recalls in the last four years, and having the Dems and AFL-CIO crawling up his ass with a microscope. He hasn’t been spending time looking at national issues until he started making noises about throwing his hat in the ring.
I live in WI. I have been to Madison numerous times. My daughter finished her PHD at the University there and still managed to stay a conservative. We took one of our dogs to the vet school to see a specialist for years. Yes, I have visited Madison many many times.
May I suggest then, that as you claim to have been to Madison many times, and to be familiar with the local landscape, that you are overlooking two issues:
1) the concerns of a governor usually don’t touch on national issues, or if they *do*, his take more closely reflects either the effects of that issue LOCALLY, or the opinions of that state’s voters (Wisconsin borders Canada, not Mexico, so Walker’s feedback on illegal immigration might not be the same as it would be from voters in Dallas or Albequerque)
2) “You dance with the ones who brung you” — most governors have their own political team...I read that Walker had worked with Liz Mair before; can you confirm?
If not, he did a rookie mistake during the vetting; if he had, he threw her under the bus quickly: whether for a tin ear, offending Iowans, or for being pro-amnesty while he was trying to go secure-borders.
(Yes, it might happen to be a flip-flop, but :
1) if he’s throwing campaign workers under the bus for contradicting the message, that’s more than most flip-floppers do, which is either change the subject, or attack the person pointing out their hypocrisy)...
2) at least he’s flopping to the more conservative direction on this one...
Back to you.
(What was your daughter’s PhD in? Mine is in molecular physics...)
Cheers!
Hmm, looky here. Liz Mair used to work for GOProud.
Wonder if she likes carpet.
According to
http://www.lizmair.com/blog.php?article=Liz-fact-sheet-for-new-Twitter-followerstrollspeople-making-assu_735
She is pro-abortion, pro-gay-rights, and has dual UK-US citizenship. But she’s still married to the guy she was with since she was 18.
Law degree, MA in international relations from St.Andrews,
speaks 4 languages.
C’mon, Scott, WTF?
” the concerns of a governor usually don’t touch on national issues”
Not always however that doesn’t mean that the governor doesn’t have an opinion. I’m sure he did as he certainly had one when he signed an immigration resolution as county executive of Milwaukee. He also has been speaking about his opinions on amnesty at least since 2013 in interviews.
While immigration issues were not in the forefront of his campaigns for governor and of course not the recall election Walker is more than aware of farmer’s concerns in WI for cheap labor. WI farms higher a lot of immigrants.
Common Core and gay marriage are national issues and they certainly were being discussed as issues in WI. I think the Act 10 issue was so huge that little else was being discussed except for maybe jobs at the time.
“If not, he did a rookie mistake during the vetting”
I can’t remember if I made any comment in this thread about that issue. You’ll have to refresh my memory but I also read that she had worked for him before and considered her a friend. It was a bad choice that is for sure. A rookie mistake? I don’t consider Walker a rookie. He has been politically active since his college years.
How long does it take for one of his staff to look up her on facebook or twitter? Sloppy work. Perhaps they didn’t think it would be an issue. Perhaps it wasn’t when he was running for gov. but they probably learned the hard way that it sure would be now.
I’ve read Walker’s book and I get the impression that he is a lot like GW Bush in that respect. He likes to hire friends and considers his employees like family. That’s not always the best way to run a tight ship. It makes it difficult to fire someone when they are a friend.
Walker has had problems with staff in the past. My impression is that hiring is not his strong suit.
“(What was your daughter’s PhD in? Mine is in molecular physics...)”
Music Theory. She started at UW Whitewater, got her masters at Florida State and finished in Madison.
Oh the stories she told about living there and the things that went on at the University. It’s not easy to be a conservative and go to school there. She was afraid she wouldn’t make it unless she pretended to be a democrat. So she did. It’s a nasty place but I think DC is probably a lot worse in many ways. They just may be a bit more sophisticated about it but I can’t say I’ve spent much time in DC. Just a family sight-seeing trip when I was a kid.
“WI farms higher a lot of immigrants”
Oh for Pete’s sake granny it’s HIRE! LOL!
You have some good points. I still think he is our best chance at saving the United States from falling apart economically. He will cut and cut the budget until only scraps are left. Senators only really know how to spend money. Senators have no clue as to balance a budget. State Governors know they can’t spend and spend...well at least the good ones like Walker know.
I can’t argue about Walker’s financial chops. He’s done a great job in WI in that regard. I do believe that illegal immigration is more of a fiscal than a social issue at this point. Illegal immigration will drag us under and bankrupt us. He is going to have to justify his immigration stance with the economic realities of it.
I can’t agree with the premise that senators can’t balance a budget. Collectively the Congress in general doesn’t seem to be very fiscally responsible. I don’t know if you can blame that on any one senator in particular and make a wide-sweeping statement in that regard anymore than you can say that all governors have no clue about foreign policy. You’d have to look at a senator’s individual voting record to see which legislation they supported and which they did not.
The way I look at the GOP field, I rate them most conservative to most liberal.
Cruz is most conservative, and Jeb is most liberal, IMO.
I am fine with ANY OF my top 4 picks. AT this point my top 4 are Walker, Cruz, Kasich & Jindal. I like governors who have done a good job in reducing budget deficits and taxes and increasing jobs.
After SC primary is over, I urge the conservative candidates to unite behind ONE candidate who has the highest delegates won at that point, and is deemed conservative on most issues.
If done, it will significantly increase chance of defeating the more liberal candidates like Jeb or Chris or MItt from winning nomination.
Walker is pro amnesty. He’d likely get into the White House and disappoint
We have been through bush, who won’t say word one about Reagan to whom he alone owes his presidential run, who gave us Clinton, after one disappointing term, then bush, who squeaked past Algiers, a maniac, Kerry not only a dem, am anti war horror, but not a smart person, bush, whom everyone was going to hate anyway but who forged ahead with compassionate conservatism, nominally claiming that he wasn’t one of those regular mean conservatives, who first trashed the constitution with campaign laws and who gave us ROP , then Romney, a liberal, who stampeded the GOP candidates and red carpeted Obama through the last two debates even after Benghazi
And just after the predictable turncoat job perpetrated on the trusting voting public that nowhere and McConnell gave us with no signs of letting up
And with no clear description of why walker pounded the unions no proof nor explanation of anything associated with the very only thing people want to like him for and FR walker infatuated are ready to trash the brilliant favorite caring honest Michelle Mallon
Now I have to really wonder about the weird charismatic effect that this bland man from Wisconsin with one accomplishment has on people
It is creepy
Mallon is one hundred percent correct
Then if the guy gets in and disappoints, we knew.
A mazing! Willful ignorance I thought was peculiar to Dems and lobs. But walkers supporters too
Blech autocorrect
Freepers always do this
Primaries give posters a justifiable reason to act natural
It’s not pretty
Once the wolf packs get traction you can’t criticize shite
Even if she or he never runs
It’s crazy
The Republican Party doesn’t merit such devotion
Every time I hear the phrase “comprehensive immigration reform”, I hear, and visualize “Reasonable gun-control”...
Almost makes me want to puke...
Like you said, Walker apparently has never proposed or signed ANY pro-illegal bills on immigration, or other pro-illegal issue that I have heard about...
Also, I agree, the Walker-bashing is helping the Jeb-Bots keep their guy viable, with the help of the liberal MSM obviously...
Those media types want Jeb anyway...Look how he is stacking up against Clinton...Of which that stacking up can change with the flip of a switch as soon as the real conservatives are boffed off leading up to and after those initial “itty bity” states hold their primaries...
I don’t want to lose my job to an illegal invader. You might be secure in your career, but I refuse to sit down and be quiet about politicians that support comprehensive immigration, amnesty, open-borders. So...I don’t really care what you think.
Malkin is usually more adept than this - everyone needs to be vetted because it shows the weak spots. If only the Left would actually undergo an actual vetting process...
Contrasting that with the people here in Bama, everyone is super-nice, be they white, black, or hispanic, but then again, most everyone is conservative down here.
Chavez was a community organizer. He used Obama-like Alinsky techniques to control illegals and farmers in el valle de coachella. Honoring him, like Walker did, is not a conservative thing to do.
Walker endorsing Chavez was not a conservative thing to do. Chavez’ alynsky tactics would be reaping domestic terror on our streets right now if he was still alive.
Geesh....Michele is a TAD HARSH......hey Michele....give him a chance. he’s already said he’s changed his mind.
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