Posted on 08/22/2015 5:31:15 AM PDT by bestintxas
After telling an NBC reporter unambiguously that he supported ending birthright citizenship, Scott Walker on Friday changed his mind, saying his new position is that he has no position, that he is now undecided again. He's saying that this isn't a reversal, merely that he misspoke because he was tired.
How do you misspeak support for ending birthright citizenship? Look at this video where he is clearly asked whether he would end it, and Walker says, "Yeah, absolutely." No ambiguity there. This is not a minor, technical issue. This is not a slip of the tongue. Scott Walker was clearly saying last week that he supported ending the mechanism that creates anchor babies. Now he's changed his mind. Here's his position on the issue for August 21st:
“I’m not taking a position one way or the other,” Walker said in an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood. “I’m saying that until you secure the border and enforce the laws, any discussion about anything else is really looking past the very things we have to do.”
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When will the GOP figure out we need a strong leader, not just another politician? To me, that is why Trump, Carson and Fiorina, the three non-politicians, have lots of traction.
I had high hopes for Walker, but he has turned out to be a big disappointment so far.
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Walker has been a disappointment. He is in over his head, it appears, and these flip-flops every other day don’t help. He has damaged his future in WI as well, so this will not turn out well.
Scott Walker has been an excellent Governor. However, he has clearly demonstrated a lack of the core principles needed at this time at the Presidential level.
You mean we’re not CRAZIES after all ??????????????????
I agree. I would prefer he stay in Wisconsin as governor. We will need that state in the electoral count.
Trump is forcing a narrative the GOPe did not want.
Little Scotty Nothingburger, go home George Will wants his jock strap back.
My gut feelings are rarely if ever wrong and this guy struck me as an establishment stealth amnesty candidate from the first.
He’s trying to find some middle ground between standing with the citizens and the rule of law or standing with the illegal aliens and their employers.
There is no middle ground, Scott, you are either FOR American sovereignty or you are not.
You are either FOR the rule of law or your are not.
You are either FOR a proper definition of the 14th (which was never inteded to be applied to children of illegal aliens) or you are not.
He is friends with Rancid Prius and Paul Ryan, both cheap labor importers.
He never noticed a group calling itself Voces de la Frontera, “Voices of the Frontier” (of Mexico) operating in Wisconsin helping illegal aliens colonize his state. I wonder if he knows that the frontier with Mexico is hundreds of miles from Wisconsin?
I bet he thinks he can get the Hispanic vote this way.
such superficial trivialities got us Obama
besmirching a good conservative is or should be out of order
And that's the problem. The problem with almost all politicians. And the political elites wonder why the serfs are so angry. This is the sort of waffling that drives people nuts. I have more respect for someone who will just say what they think, even if I don't agree with it, than some Eggo Waffle statement from some politician trying to have it all ways or who knows what way. Perhaps they don't even remember what they believe in anymore.
Walker is a good fighter, but he doesn’t seem to be a very good politician.
Wafflers will never get my vote. That tells me they are appeasers and will compromise their values for personal benefit when the need arises.
Trump is forcing a narrative the GOPe did not want.
Bingo.
The truth about the GOPe is now obvious to all. Candidates are bought and paid for. Trump was right.
Did you mean 'rince penis'?
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