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Scott Walker’s spineless silence
The Washington Post ^ | February 20, 2015 | Editorial Board

Posted on 02/21/2015 1:27:31 PM PST by EveningStar

... At a private dinner Wednesday for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a likely candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said: “I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.”

Mr. Giuliani has dived off the deep end before, so there was nothing all that surprising in his latest poison. But as Post columnist Dana Milbank points out, his remarks presented an early test of character for Mr. Walker, and Mr. Walker failed spectacularly. At the dinner, the governor said nothing. Even the next morning, having had a night to ponder, Mr. Walker chose not to lift himself out of the Giuliani sewer. “The mayor can speak for himself. I’m not going to comment on what the president thinks or not. He can speak for himself as well,” ...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; giuliani; kabuki; obama; pettyintrigue; scottwalker; spineless; uniparty; wapo; washingtonpost; wisconsin
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To: EveningStar

It’s clear they are trying to make something out of Walker’s nothing.

In this instance, it doesn’t matter if he says something or not. The template was always make whatever happens, bad for Walker.

Clearly this story - Walker’s response, whatever it was - was always designed to be a hit piece.


41 posted on 02/21/2015 1:45:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Axeslinger
I’d like to know why no one in the media has seen fit to ask Obama to respond?

...Yeah.....usually our grate leader jumps in to pontificate....

I guess he is brushing up on his coin tossing skills

after being self checkmated by the Judge on immigration.


42 posted on 02/21/2015 1:45:39 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: EveningStar

Not a single word in this editorial, or any other I can see, addressing the issue of whether Obama actually does love his country, or not.


43 posted on 02/21/2015 1:45:40 PM PST by dinoparty
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To: EveningStar
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44 posted on 02/21/2015 1:46:26 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: EveningStar

And besides......he didn’t get his college degree! [/s]


45 posted on 02/21/2015 1:46:57 PM PST by rbg81
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To: EveningStar

Also you can tell something deliberate in the way they mention him. Mention the title Governor once, then the rest of the story it’s “Mr.”

They do not do this to democrats. Everything is done on purpose.


46 posted on 02/21/2015 1:47:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: arasina

Maybe it finally occurred to them how stupid they looked while painting the guy who kicked their overfunded butts repeatedly as an uneducated dummy.


47 posted on 02/21/2015 1:47:20 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: EveningStar
Walker is spineless because he was on a news show with Giuliani and didn't object to what he said?.........

Obama and his wife attended Rev. Wright's anti-American, anti-white church for years, and get a pass. Now I don't believe the Obamas attended that church because they shared Rev. Wright's religious beliefs. They attended that church because if you are black, live in Chicago, and are interested in politics, that is the church you attend. That doesn't excuse sitting in a pew for years and listening to the endless litany of crap spewing forth from Wright's mouth.

48 posted on 02/21/2015 1:47:25 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: arasina

He truly scares them.


Just as Palin did. In fact, the MSM treatment of Walker and Palin are eerily similar. I suspect that DNC operatives will use the same dirty tricks against Walker they did against Palin.


49 posted on 02/21/2015 1:49:03 PM PST by rbg81
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To: EveningStar
They are very much afraid of Gov. Walker to the point where they now no longer care if it shows.

They keep trying to "slap his face with a pair of French gloves" to get him into a duel.

Can you imagine a "journalist duel"?


50 posted on 02/21/2015 1:49:39 PM PST by capt. norm
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Consider the source : Washinton Post

No kidding.

51 posted on 02/21/2015 1:49:45 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: econjack
once again proving he's the only one in the GOP with the stones to say what the rest of us are thinking. Until I see the GOP reflecting my (conservative) point of view, my pocketbook is closed to the GOP. Come on...grow a pair, guys.

You're serious?

Haven't you watched Governor Walker for the past few years not only reflect conservative values, but IMPLEMENT them?

52 posted on 02/21/2015 1:50:20 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: Da Coyote

Calling Walker “spineless” after what he endured in Wisconsin is the height of irony.

They fear him because he isn’t spineless.


53 posted on 02/21/2015 1:51:20 PM PST by rbg81
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To: EveningStar

Walker refuses to take the bait of 0bama’s MSM suck-ups. Spineless? Smart is more like it.


54 posted on 02/21/2015 1:52:04 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: rbg81

Meanwhile in the MSM.... No one is denying Rudy’s remarks.


55 posted on 02/21/2015 1:52:32 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Soon to be Pres Scott Walker...........


56 posted on 02/21/2015 1:52:57 PM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: EveningStar

Walker Derangement Syndrome.


57 posted on 02/21/2015 1:54:34 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: All
Who you gonna believe the Washington Post or your lying eyes?

From Barack Obama's own words - He Searched out Marxist (Communist) Professors in college


58 posted on 02/21/2015 1:57:21 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: EveningStar

FUWP

Not everybody has to be bambi’s cheerleader. Rudy is pathetic but he said something a lot of people are thinking.


59 posted on 02/21/2015 1:58:35 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: EveningStar

60 posted on 02/21/2015 2:01:22 PM PST by gusopol3
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