Posted on 07/14/2015 8:10:29 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
It is not clear this will hurt him in the primary campaign, but it should be a red flag to supporters and advisors when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker winds up simultaneously saying he supports his wife's cousin's gay marriage and he wants a constitutional amendment to allow states to ban gay marriage.
In a revealing interview with ABC News, this ensued:
"I love them, so I support them" Walker said of his wife Tonette's cousin and her partner.
"Loves gotta be the focus of everything we do with our family and our close friends," Walker told [ABC News David] Muir...
That's a pretty fine line he is trying to walk. If he "supports" gay marrieds in his own family then it is fair to ask why he would deny that to gays to whom he is not related. Moreover, his statement is not exactly consistent. When the 7th Circuit found his state's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, he did not voice support for an amendment. He did not do that until his campaign was well underway, he was pitching himself as a social conservative and he wanted to sound indignant about the Supreme Court's ruling.
Moreover, when Walker said in the interview that he would support a gay marriage amendment, he shied away from saying he would fight for it.
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Walker is pro-TPP (Walker said this while sitting on his motorcycle at Ernst's "Roast and Ride not long ago) and was tossed off of the chair of the WEDC not long ago by the GOP in Wisconsin as the WEDC keeps getting investigated for corruption and is being thoroughly investigated now.
Ill stick with Trump.
What say you?
Smells like the Bush family, without the pedigree.
Top McConnell aide joins Scott Walker’s political team
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3290172/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3309310/posts
What say you?
Since the any amendment has exactly zero chance of being enacted, you can be certain that Walker is neutral or in favor of gay marriage.
I don’t remember the Washington Post or any other major newspaper going after the children of liberals running for office to see if they could pit them against their parent...
Did I miss something? Has it ever happened?
Bernie must have kids and grandkids... must be a few of ‘em that aren’t socialists...
Wat say you?
Red Herring on your part.
Walker did not have to do the interview and even so he could have declined to answer the question just like he declined to answer the question asked of him by a reporter in Great Britain about whether or not he believed in evolution.
Walker wants to be all things to all people.
Check this out.
More left wing maggots trying to tell us what’s wrong with our candidates while ignoring their mentally ill candidates.
Check this out.
So if left wingers didn’t ignore their own mentally ill candidates that would make Walker’s pandering, waffling and forked-tongue speak (all of which he is so go at) okay with you?
He’s not going to go against his wife and kids. The Walkers have a very cozy relationship with their gay associates, vacationing together and hosting parties together. This is politically expedient lip service.
What is Trump’s position on homosexuals pretending to be married?
I am disappointed in Walker’s wife and sons, and it makes me wonder how they’re defining themselves as Christian.
I could not allow myself to be part of one of these “weddings”. I wouldn’t be hateful in declining, but I would make it clear that my faith did not allow condoning any kind of sin.
And as we can see, Walker will not take a stand for traditional values nor fight for them.
He only got “riled up” when it was time to try and fool voters in Iowa and elsewhere into believing he was a true social conservative.
However, I stand on Christian conservative social issues as my yardstick on a candidate.
We can love the sinner but hate the sin; Walker seems to want it both ways.
I'm skeptical of him.
Walker didn’t voice support for an amendment until he felt it was time to try and fool voters, nor in this interview did he say he would fight for this amendment.
Walker flipped on ethanol subsidies when he felt it was time to pander for votes in Iowa on this issue, too. He was against them before he was for them...
Walker speaks with a forked tongue. He didn’t think Obama loved America and then later flip flopped on that, as a past article at Hot Air showed, providing Walker’s own words on the matter.
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