JOE WALSH failed to win in the 90s as a MODERATE. So, he rode the TEA-PARTY wave as a one term CONGRESSMAN. . IMHO, Bigtime OPPORTUNIST.
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William Joseph Walsh (born December 27, 1961) is an American conservative talk radio host and former congressman. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives for Illinois' 8th congressional district. He served from January 2011 through January 2013, after defeating three-term incumbent Democratic Representative Melissa Bean by a margin of 291 votes in a surprising upset. He is a member of the Republican Party. While he received little Republican Party support in his bid against Bean, he was popular with the Tea Party movement. Walsh ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996 and for the Illinois General Assembly in 1998.
In the 1990s, he called himself a moderate Republican, but he later became a conservative and a Tea Party activist. Walsh is now a conservative radio show host and a noted critic of U.S. President Donald Trump.