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Joe Walsh Announces 2020 Presidential Run
Townhall.com ^ | August 25, 2019 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 08/25/2019 7:40:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

Former Congressman Joe Walsh officially announced his candidacy for the 2020 Republican nomination today, vowing to defeat incumbent President Donald J. Trump.

"Friends, I'm in. We can't take four more years of Donald Trump. And that's why I'm running for President. It won't be easy, but bravery is never easy," Walsh tweeted. "But together, we can do it."

"We have someone in the White House who we all know is unfit. Someone who lies virtually every time he opens his mouth," he stated in his campaign video. "We cannot afford four more years."

Since exiting Congress, Walsh has been in the news for his outspoken criticism of President Trump, previous tweets claiming former President Obama is a Muslim, and being pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen into showing support for arming kindergarten students with guns.

Walsh claims he was tricked into showing support for a made-up Israeli defense program titled "The Kindergaurdians." He was invited by Cohen's team to accept a phony award, and was asked to sit down for an interview. He was told to read from a teleprompter that the program was "an example of how Israel trains and arms preschool kids on how to use firearms, and boy shouldn’t we do that in America?”

In an interview on CNN regarding that stunt, Michael Smerconish asked, "Did an alarm go off in your head, congressman?"

"It did," Walsh answered, "but it was too late."

He joins former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld in challenging the president on the GOP side.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020gopprimary; itsnotanoped; lifesbeengood; rino; tds; trump2020; usefulidiots
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To: Kaslin

Bet his parents will vote Trump though.


61 posted on 08/25/2019 9:22:48 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: Kaslin

Naw, it’s easy. At least for me, it’s very easy. MAGA!


62 posted on 08/25/2019 9:24:13 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Kaslin

Cannon fodder for the primaries.


63 posted on 08/25/2019 9:40:22 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Reily

This is a stupid stunt and money grab. I absolutely despise NeverTrumps as much as I despise every liberal.


64 posted on 08/25/2019 9:46:29 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

LOL.


65 posted on 08/25/2019 9:51:17 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I’m only 48 and completely agree. How is this “brave”? If you’re a coward this is precisely the right time to declare. He’s not going to be harassed like PDJT. If anything the media will fawn over him. This is just narcissistic. He doesn’t have a chance, this is just to raise his profile.


66 posted on 08/25/2019 9:52:19 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
Two idiots with musical names . . . Al Green and Joe Walsh.

Let's Stay Together on the Rocky Mountain Way.

67 posted on 08/25/2019 9:53:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: libh8er

“If Trump tweets about this loser he will only give his show an audience which it doesn’t have. Trump knows it. Maybe a passing comment during a press briefing, muffled by the sound of helicopter rotors, should be enough.”

you are so correct ... so i do hope Trump ignores this fool who is zero threat to Trump, because after Joe’s announcement honeymoon with the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia, the ONLY publicity Walsh is gonna get is if Trump mentions his name ... if/when asked about Walsh, Trump should say something like: “I thought Joe’s last name is Biden.”


68 posted on 08/25/2019 10:05:21 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: jmacusa

What a jerk off.”

In Chicago that’s, What a Jagoff...


69 posted on 08/25/2019 10:14:10 AM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

It’s called Trump derangement syndrome or Rino for short. You know, the likes of Mitt Romney, Bill Crystal....etc.


70 posted on 08/25/2019 10:15:10 AM PDT by marygam (Trump is Making America Great Again!)
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To: chris37

So EVERY DAMN Tea Party member we sent to DC has since become a RINO?? Isn’t that just GREAT!!! / s


71 posted on 08/25/2019 10:19:19 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Beave Meister

In Jersey it’s ‘’jerkoff’’. In NYC it’s ‘’hard on’’..


72 posted on 08/25/2019 10:20:44 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: Kaslin

[We can’t take four more years of Democrat lies and RINO crybabies]

For that is where the problem originates and perpetuates.


73 posted on 08/25/2019 10:23:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

My theory on that is this is the tactic that the GOP used to destroy the Tea Party.

It infiltrated it by running and getting elected false conservatives. The effect of this was to remove all wind from the sails of Tea Party people when it became painfully obvious that regardless of who we elect, the results will be the same. Essentially, our vote is futile.

Our response to this was President Donald J. Trump.


74 posted on 08/25/2019 10:25:06 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: Kaslin

Walsh is legend in his own mind. I used to listen to him. He would start his show this way: “Hey, everybody. Joe Walsh here. Former....CONGRESSMAN...Joe Walsh.” After he fails at his presidential run, if he goes back on their air, or if he winds up a “conservative” commentator on CNN, etc., he’ll be able to add, “Former...PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE...Joe Walsh.”

People like him remind me of a scene from the movie, “Glory.” Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Jihmi Kennedy have just signed up with the 54th Massachusetts, and are getting acquainted in their tent. Each tells his story. Washington’s character had run off from a plantation in Tennessee a year or so previously.

Kennedy’s character asks him, “So what you been doing since you run off?”

Washington says, “I been runnin’ for president.”

Kennedy and Freeman give each other a confused look.

Washington says, “I didn’t win, though.”


75 posted on 08/25/2019 10:37:02 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Kaslin

Joe Walsh is not a conservative. He is a narcissistic, self serving, opportunist. When he thinks he is off mic on his radio show that no one listens to, he is aggressively verbally abusive to his radio staff. Horrid candidate and fake conservative.


76 posted on 08/25/2019 11:04:19 AM PDT by cyberstoic
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To: a fool in paradise

And the worst president ever.


77 posted on 08/25/2019 11:13:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Larry Lucido

That is a completely different guy. Not that moron


78 posted on 08/25/2019 11:16:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: bigbob

They need to fire him


79 posted on 08/25/2019 11:17:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Larry Lucido
Witchywoman

Desperado was written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley

80 posted on 08/25/2019 11:23:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
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