Posted on 03/19/2015 10:22:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nationally syndicated conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, founder of the website Twitchy, tells Breitbart News that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkera potential 2016 GOP presidential candidateneeds to be vetted. She also says Walkers problems run much deeper than the decision to hirethen quickly let go ofpro-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. Hes 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.
Malkin also stood up for the few reporters willing to pressure Walker to answer legitimate questions about Mair,
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Here is a systematic rundown of articles I wrote during the last cycle showing I was ahead of the curve the entire time......how did I do that? Because I do indeed know what wins, and I know what loses: I pick this up in progress right before Herman Cain’s surge to the lead: (yes, he did lead for a while...) and then I go into the rest of the season:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/10/mitt_running_against_mccains_ghost.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/10/wall_street_mobs_play_into_herman_cains_hands.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/11/why_newts_surge_will_continue.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/12/newts_rise_its_the_persuasion_stupid.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/01/psst_hear_the_roar_and_pay_attention.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/01/obama_wins_shameful_nbc_debate.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/02/mitts_scorched_earth_win.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/02/newt_struck_gold_promptly_abandoned_mine.html
If you have the courage to read even a couple of these, you’ll change your tune.
Good point!
Yeah he also supported Goldwater. I’m a big fan of Goldwater and Reagan.
Outside of FDR and Woodrow Wilson, I think the old Democrats use to be Jeffersonian.
The old south also use to be Democrat. It seems that over time parties change their views a bit as do candidates.
We need to get the GOP back on track. So questioning some of these GOP candidates is alright to me.
We need to make sure the right guy gets the nomination. The left will do its best to make sure Clinton gets elected and its our job to fight back against them.
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