Posted on 07/13/2015 2:11:10 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
"Scott Walker is a national disgrace," reads the entirety of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka's statement.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is one of the most hardcore right-wing extremists in America. His slash-and-burn policies have gutted Wisconsin workers' collective bargaining rights, defunded Planned Parenthood and more all of which has made him a prime punching bag for progressives around the country.
For some reason, the Republican zealot is hell-bent on conducting a doomed campaign for president in 2016, a painfully obvious fact which he "revealed" Monday morning after months of tedious teasing, including one recent public appearance in which he bizarrely compared peaceful pro-worker activists in his home state to ISIS terrorists. (Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi accurately described the main theme of Walker's recent stump speeches as "I was a dick in Wisconsin, and I can be one in Washington, too!")
To be clear, Walker has basically zero chance at winning the White House. His charisma level hovers somewhere beneath a block of Wisconsin cheese frankly, even comparing the man to a piece of cheese is a little insulting to his home state's lauded dairy farms. All evidence suggests that he would be really, really bad at selling his really, really bad ideas to the American public in a general election. But now that he's officially in the race, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has issued one of the best press releases in political history in response to Walker's announcement. . .
I do believe that Trumka is whistling in the grave yard. When Walker ran as governor of Wisconsin, these same people were laughing up their sleeves, thinking that Walker didn’t have a chance. Then when he got elected, they tried their very best to kick him out of office 2 times, and failing both times.
Oh, and the Left will always tell you who they fear.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Pretty much states what the Progressive agenda is and makes me think Walker's a better candidate than anything the "Progressives" might regurgitate.
From “Rolling Stone?” Aren’t they the ones who wrote about a rape that never happened?
Rolling stoned earned their reputation for journalism excellence.
This is 'one of the best press releases in political history'? And it DESTROYS Scott Walker?
Wow, this Rolling Stone writer seems to have a low excitement threshold. Looks like a pedestrian, unsubstantiated nothing burger to me...
And a few budgets. I wonder how much Walker has cost the unions?
I’d take that as a huge endorsement. Trumka...the epitome of the word ‘union thug.’
Childish clickbait style headline from RS. What losers.
It's the low information voters you have to worry about. The people who only know one thing about Scott Walker, and that's that he's "against the working man." You'll hear a lot of that from now to next year with "the working man" understood as "the little guy."
Act 10 passed
Public unions decimated in WI
Dues collection in WI off massively here
Right to Work
Prevailing Wage Repeal
UW tenure completely revamped.
3 losses after dumping all kinds of cash into 3 Walker elections.
Yeah Walker is really feeling the burn...
Not only in what they’ve wasted in trying to beat him in elections, but in what they’ve lost in decreased revenue due to lower health-care premiums to their WEAC wholly-owned-health-insurance-company scam, about $10000 per teacher per year.
Unions can go screw themselves....
Union whores want money to screw themselves..
Typical headline from click-bait leftist rags.
Tell the reader how they should react to something in the headline.
Developing..According to Rolling Stone magazine, Gov. Walker committed rape on the U of Virginia campus..developing!!!
I agree. I think our 3 best nominees would be
Cruz (cause he would really rev-up the base)
Trump (for the same reasons, plus he’d pull in a lot of in-the closet Reagan Democrats)
Walker (for the reasons you have outlined)
I think the 3 worst would be
Bush (cause he’d demoralize our base as bad or worse than Walker would demoralize theirs)
Graham (same reason)
Fiorina (as a former CEO she is a sitting duck to be absolutely destroyed in the same manner as Romney....think “everybody HP ever laid-off when she was in charge turning up in a Democrat ad”).
Wow.. I just destroyed Obama and save the country.. who knew it was that easy!
I will do them one better, in two words:
UNIONS SUCK!
Trumka? Hahahaha!
I did it in only five.
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