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Former congressman Walsh ends 2020 GOP bid against Trump
The Associated Press ^ | February 8, 2020 | By HUNTER WOODALL

Posted on 02/07/2020 5:53:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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1 posted on 02/07/2020 5:53:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

who dis? new phone.


2 posted on 02/07/2020 5:54:07 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who?


3 posted on 02/07/2020 5:54:13 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: teeman8r

series. who was dat?


4 posted on 02/07/2020 5:54:22 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, yeah. States canceled primaries to “protect” Trump from a nobody like Walsh.

Please, my sides hurt...


5 posted on 02/07/2020 5:55:42 AM PST by StoneRainbow68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Color me super shocked. He had so much going for him. 8>)


6 posted on 02/07/2020 5:55:53 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: teeman8r

Joe Walsh is a zero. But he did have one hit song, “Life’s been good to me so far” and its neat that in it, he sings “My Maserati does 185”.


7 posted on 02/07/2020 5:56:53 AM PST by laconic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He may just have been in it to get his bills paid and sell merchandise.

Maybe he bought up all the unsold buttons from Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh's 1980 joke campaign for the presidency and thought he could unload them on voters.

8 posted on 02/07/2020 5:58:23 AM PST by x
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To: laconic

i lost my license, now i don’t drive...


9 posted on 02/07/2020 5:58:38 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
His concession speech was pretty good:

I had a campaign, I put it on ice
Ain't never got votes, it woulda be nice
I lived in hotels, gave speeches in halls
I had Bill Kristol pay for it all

They say I'm crazy but I had a good time
(Everybody say RINO, oh yeah, RINO)
I'm just spreading fake news that Trump committed a crime
Life's been good to me so far

10 posted on 02/07/2020 5:59:23 AM PST by edwinland
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'd rather vote for the real Joe Walsh...


11 posted on 02/07/2020 6:00:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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LOL! Clap, clap, clap, clap....


12 posted on 02/07/2020 6:05:13 AM PST by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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The effort made Walsh lose his national talk radio show but he said he was “done with talk radio”


(by Robert Feder 8-27-19)
Now that Joe Walsh has announced his quixotic bid to challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, the former Illinois congressman says he’s sacrificing his career as a radio talk show host.

Walsh has been holding forth on WIND 560-AM, the Salem Media news/talk station, since 2013 — the year after he lost his reelection bid following one term in Congress. His local show aired from 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays. His national show, syndicated by Salem Radio Network, aired from 8 to 11 p.m. weekdays.

“I’m done with talk radio, and that makes me sad,” Walsh said Sunday on “Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont.” “But to me this is a bigger mission. I’ve got to do what I can to make sure this guy can’t be reelected and . . . to try to help save the Republican party. Trump has destroyed the Republican party.”

On Monday Salem Radio Network gave affiliates 30-days notice that it was cancelling Walsh’s show to avoid running afoul of the FCC’s Equal Time Rule. “This announcement does not affect Walsh’s local program airing on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago, however Walsh’s program will have to be removed as soon as he becomes a viable and legal candidate for president,” according to the company.

Walsh acknowledged that his outspoken criticism of Trump already had cost him support among some affiliates.

“The easiest thing for me to do is to just line up with everybody else in conservative media and sing this president’s praises,” he told DuMont. “If I did that, I’d still have a radio show, I’d have great ratings, and every Republican would love me. I truly believe that this president is a danger to the country. He has no respect for the rule of law. He believes he’s a dictator.

https://www.robertfeder.com/2019/08/27/presidential-candidate-joe-walsh-im-done-talk-radio/


13 posted on 02/07/2020 6:06:46 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh no! Why?


14 posted on 02/07/2020 6:08:00 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So much for the saying that the top three finishers in the Iowa caucuses get their cards punched for New Hampshire.

Joe Biden got less than 15% of the votes in Iowa despite the media constantly saying he was the front runner...he should pack it in.

15 posted on 02/07/2020 6:11:40 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Now that Joe Walsh has announced his quixotic bid to challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, the former Illinois congressman says he’s sacrificing his career as a radio talk show host.

Boy, talk about shooting yourself in both feet...

16 posted on 02/07/2020 6:12:50 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: edwinland
I had a campaign, I put it on ice Ain't never got votes, it woulda be nice I lived in hotels, gave speeches in halls I had Bill Kristol pay for it all They say I'm crazy but I had a good time (Everybody say RINO, oh yeah, RINO) I'm just spreading fake news that Trump committed a crime Life's been good to me so far

You sir have won the internet for the day.

17 posted on 02/07/2020 6:14:54 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: raccoonradio

So that still leaves William “Pink” Floyd Weld as a primary challenger...


18 posted on 02/07/2020 6:18:31 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I didn’t even know he was running.


19 posted on 02/07/2020 6:19:39 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Verginius Rufus
In 2008 McCain was dead after Iowa ...

Then then the rats bussed people from NYC to New Hampshire to vote from him in the NH primary.

He won NH and went on to become the R candidate.

I always wondered why the rats wanted McCain to run ... hhmmm ...

20 posted on 02/07/2020 6:21:50 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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