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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

I’d like to find the Washington Post’s editorial condemning Obama for calling Bush ‘unpatriotic’.


61 posted on 02/21/2015 2:02:20 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: EveningStar

They’re trying to goad Walker into saying something they can hang around his neck through 2016.

I know it’s hard for them to believe because he’s not a college grad, but it looks like he’s too smart for them.


62 posted on 02/21/2015 2:03:33 PM PST by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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To: EveningStar

It’s time someone decided not to let the corrupt left wing press set the agenda. Rudy is not the issue. Rudy is not setting the agenda.


63 posted on 02/21/2015 2:05:51 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Frank_2001

No, we leave that behavior to John McCain.


64 posted on 02/21/2015 2:06:16 PM PST by Sioux-san
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To: EveningStar
If Walker is listening, he better not go McCain wussy on an issue where the facts are overwhelmingly in support of Giuliani.
65 posted on 02/21/2015 2:06:47 PM PST by iontheball
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To: EveningStar

Let’s see here, I wonder what can we find in the compost’s comments after the article?

Hmmmm...


66 posted on 02/21/2015 2:09:19 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: EveningStar
Obama is asked about Egypt's counter-attacks on ISIS after they behead 21... he can neither condone or condemn the actions...

So, in the same news cycle, the MSM goes after Scott Walker for failing to condone or condemn someone else's opinion of a third person.

FAR more important, I guess.

67 posted on 02/21/2015 2:09:24 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: rbg81

Walker is hardly spineless. While working on Act 10 he and his family faced death threats. The Post can stick it


68 posted on 02/21/2015 2:13:20 PM PST by irish guard
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69 posted on 02/21/2015 2:16:21 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: EveningStar

If Walker goes down it’s Ted all the way. Do they realize that? Or do they think that Bush would profit from it?


70 posted on 02/21/2015 2:18:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: dinoparty
Obama cannot love a country that he wants to fundamentally transform. He, himself, has essentially said he does not love this country.
71 posted on 02/21/2015 2:21:50 PM PST by Girlene
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To: EveningStar

Huh?

WaPo

Under New Management?

What a joke .. ‘Amazon’ in nature

Inferring ‘guilt’.

Damn. How low can ya go?

Don’t ask.


72 posted on 02/21/2015 2:28:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: EveningStar
Scott Walker’s spineless silence

The left quickly resorts to name calling. They are soiling themselves with their frantic attempts to demean Scott Walker, a repeat winner against the left, and the choice of many for POTUS.

73 posted on 02/21/2015 2:35:58 PM PST by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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To: EveningStar

I believe the love of America generally shared by Saul Alinksy, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and Frank Marshall Davis.

The WaPost’s editorial board is clearly scared of the truth and Scott Walker.


74 posted on 02/21/2015 2:36:01 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: EveningStar
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75 posted on 02/21/2015 2:36:36 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: EveningStar

Actually, Walker was spineless from my perspective in that he didn’t add to what Rudy started by reiterating Rudy’s points.

Rudy nailed President Bork Obunga for what he is.


76 posted on 02/21/2015 2:36:52 PM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: FreedomPoster

I believe Obama’s love of America is that generally shared by Saul Alinksy, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and Frank Marshall Davis.

fixed


77 posted on 02/21/2015 2:36:59 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: EveningStar

Whoa. Who woke the WaPoo up?


78 posted on 02/21/2015 2:38:49 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Girlene
"can not love a country that he wants to fundamentally transform"

BUMP

79 posted on 02/21/2015 2:41:14 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: EveningStar

“Mr. Giuliani has dived off the deep end before, so there was nothing all that surprising in his latest poison.”

They never say ‘”X” and “Y” spring to mind’ when they write something like this. They just call the guy what ever name they want to and say he’s crazy.


80 posted on 02/21/2015 2:42:50 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job..)
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