Posted on 08/23/2019 5:49:01 PM PDT by rintintin
Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) is expected to mount a primary challenge to President Trump, after discovering newfound Twitter fame as an ardent defender-turned-critic of the administration.
The big picture: Walsh wouldn't be Trump's only primary challenger, as former Gov. Bill Weld (R-Mass.) has already launched a long-shot bid. But the Tea Party Republican would likely offer a different approach to the more traditional Weld, having created a brand for himself as a conservative activist unafraid to ruffle feathers. That has led Walsh to his fair share of controversy, including allegations of racist statements.
Here's a look at a few of Walsh's most controversial takes:
After the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Walsh told MSNBC's Martin Bashir: "We need to begin profiling who our enemy is in this war: Young Muslim men," per Talking Points Memo. Walsh was an outspoken critic of President Obama and has claimed he is a Muslim, tweeting in December 2016: "For better or worse, I'm not afraid to say it publicly. I think Obama is Muslim. I think in his head and in his heart he has always been." During the 2016 election, Walsh tweeted he would be "grabbing [his] musket" should Hillary Clinton win the presidency, per the Daily Beast. Walsh once complained on Twitter about being censored on the radio for using certain racial slurs:
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Walsh is a two faced hypocrite
From what I can tell, the real reason he opposes Trump is that Trump isn’t following a George Bush neocon foreign policy. If Trump were expanding the war in Syria, I bet Walsh wouldn’t be complaining about his ‘vulgar tone’. Likewise with Bill Kristol
He can have Don Henley as his running mate!
Trump doesn’t have any primary challengers and never will, as that implies that somehow Trump could be defeated. The ONLY hope for any of them is to file and hope, for whatever reason, Trump winds up not running.
But these clowns will be PARADED by the media, in order to get some cheap shots in at Trump.
This guy’s radio show has been a joke. All during last year’s election cycle he kept claiming Sean Hannity and other conservative were telling people not to worry that the GOP had the election in the bag - completely false. He’s totally clueless.
Someone didn’t get the word to this guy:
It is completely a business with Bill Kristol - he never actually believed the things he was espousing, obviously.
Now there is a group call “Republicans for the Rule of Law” running ads attacking McConnell for not passing the Democrats’ legislative agenda - wouldn’t doubt it if that was Kristol connected. Kristol has been accepting contributions from far-left donors to fund his current projects for “true conservatism.”
It’s all about completing the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
President Trump threatens to reverse their 30 year plan of fundamentally transforming this country.
Trust me....he has a place about 20 minutes from me and was our congressman for two years. He was as rock ribbed a good guy as they come. Gerrymandered out of his district in 2012. Great on guns and Israel but for some reason developed a huge hard on for Trump. Has turned into a complete asshole.I think he is hyper ambitious for a CNN or MSNBC slot.
He lives in hotels and tears out the walls.
And then has accountants pay for it all.
CNN: “Hey Twitter, we hate ALL Republicans!”
Their advertisers are relieved LOL!
Trust me, he knows full well. If Trump’s support was maybe 70% in the Republican Party, then maybe a far-out chance, but not with Trump at 90%. He just wanted a platform to bash Trump.
I listen to his home station in Chicago, although I stopped listening to Walsh himself some time ago. When the morning show hosts were talking about his possible presidential run yesterday, it didn’t seem there was much love lost from them if he happened to leave there.
One morning host tweeted that Walsh is a “crank”, and said that voters who supported him had to decide which Joe Walsh they wanted — the liberal, pro-abortion Republican Walsh who ran for Congress against Sidney Yates in 1996 and for a state legislative seat in 1998; the Tea Party Walsh that got voted into Congress in 2010 and out in 2012; the pro-Trump Walsh who said “if Trump isn’t elected, I’m grabbing my musket the day after the election”; or the newest incarnation of Walsh — the never-Trumper.
The morning hosts had considerable fun talking about what jobs they would like in the Walsh Administration.
Walsh has been attacking the President for lack of character. Does he really want to go there, considering how he himself was $170,000 behind on child support payments some years back?
I used to listen to him regularly and agreed with him on a lot of the issues. The challenge has always been his rather unpolished broadcasting method - he could cut his two-hour show down to about twenty minutes if he didn’t repeat himself so much. My last straw with him was a from personal run-in I had with him that showed me what a really nasty piece of work he is.
So my take on Walsh is that he is a crank, as his colleague at WIND said, and I’ll add that he is a phony blowhard loser. Who knows what his intentions are with running? He surely can’t believe he can win. He may believe he would help the country by hurting Trump, but what real conservative in his right mind (and I’m not sure that Walsh qualifies for that description) would believe that any of the Democrats, and a potential Democrat takeover of the Congress, would be anything but disastrous? His radio show is syndicated to a bunch of small-potatoes stations throughout the country, but I understand he has lost some major markets lately. He’ll be gone from the air if he runs, so maybe he is trying to generate some publicity to help move him into another media job — maybe as one of those anti-Trump “conservatives” who show up on CNN, etc.
The one good thing about his running is that it would open up the 5-7 p.m. slot for decent programming for a change.
I occasionally listened to his radio show in Chicago. Yeah, he’s a crank, a blathering nitwit. His candidacy is a non-starter.
This guy has one characteristic that would utterly disqualify any political candidate in my humble opinion: he’s a professional loser who has spent almost his entire adult life as a politician or a political candidate. This is someone who can be counted on to be 100% full of sh!t 100% of the time.
That describes him quite well.
“oters who supported him had to decide which Joe Walsh they wanted — the liberal, pro-abortion Republican Walsh who ran for Congress against Sidney Yates in 1996 and for a state legislative seat in 1998; the Tea Party Walsh that got voted into Congress in 2010 and out in 2012; the pro-Trump Walsh who said “if Trump isn’t elected, I’m grabbing my musket the day after the election”; or the newest incarnation of Walsh — the never-Trumper.”
Wow. Multiple personalities. There was a famous movie about a woman who had a disorder like that - “The Three Faces of Eve”. Starred Paul Newman’s wife if I remember
The...at least...Five Faces of Walsh.
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