Posted on 03/19/2015 10:22:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nationally syndicated conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, founder of the website Twitchy, tells Breitbart News that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walkera potential 2016 GOP presidential candidateneeds to be vetted. She also says Walkers problems run much deeper than the decision to hirethen quickly let go ofpro-amnesty communications aide Liz Mair, who had taken shots at Iowa.
Scott Walker has much bigger problems than the ill-considered hiring and firing of one D.C. operative, Malkin said in an email.
"What does he really stand for and is he fully equipped to bear the slings and arrows of his enemies on a national and global scale? Yes, he fought Big Labor and has managed his state well. But grass-roots activists in his state have long been warning me of his ideological gymnastics on core issues: immigration and education.
He has been on the same side as the progressive Left and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Right: pro-amnesty, pro-massive legal immigration expansionist, and pro-Common Core. Hes been left, right, center, and all over the map."
She added that Washington-based GOP establishment forces are good at backing up establishment politicians, as they seemed to have tried to do to defend Walker and Mair.
The D.C. consultant class and Capitol Hill GOP operators are adept at swooping in to rescue the campaigns of neophytes and molding them into Beltway barnacle tools, Malkin said. They did it with Spencer Abraham and Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. Face it: Many of the D.C. messaging experts and communicators DO have their own policy agenda and it is naive or stupid to believe they have no sway or influence on ambitious, outside the Beltway seekers of higher public office with no fixed principles.
Malkin also stood up for the few reporters willing to pressure Walker to answer legitimate questions about Mair,
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Ted Cruz is my first choice. At this time, Walker is a distant second. An acquaintance, who is a liberal, readily admitted posting for years on conservative sites to tear down Republicans who win or are likely to win in the primaries.
I love Michelle, she’s been great for the conservative cause. For the record, here’s who she forgot to vett in 2012: http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/30/for-santorum/
When Malkin prematurely and publically disses Walker in a pivotal early show state, where he is purportedly leading Jeb Bush in several polls, she joins forces with the both the Left and the GOP, whom are very busy trying to knock down Walker’s current favorable numbers over Jeb Bush.
These players don’t need a helping hand, imho. She needs to cool her jets and fire over there, not at her feet.
His entire career as governor in Wisconsin has been an investigation. I know of no other politician who has ever had such scrutiny.
You don’t think he’s conservative? Fine. But his record is right there and he’s had more money and effort used against him than anyone in modern history.
If that’s not vetting, what is?
BUMP to your post.
” Freepers dissing on Michelle Malkin. Thats a new one. :-)”
Unfortunately, not unprecidented. I love Malkin, and she cowers to nobody.
” When it comes to the illegal alien invasion, theres no one I trust more than Michelle Malkin. She has been steadfast in her defense of American sovereignty and the citizens.”
100% and never wavered. I can’t think of anyone more credible.
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You can never run or hide from the truth - it will out .... once he’s gone .....
Actually yours is the third posting of this same Breitbart thread, the first has almost 200 comments and the second was locked by a mod after about 70 comments.
BECAUSE Michelle Malkin asking questions.. IS IMPORTANT...
DUH!......
And it is just crazy for conservatives to attack conservatives instead of the real enemy(s).
Tactical error, also reminiscent of Newt being distracted to go after Romney in FL instead of continuing to focus on 0bama.
Is it possible that conservative pundits are being swayed by Jebby's war chest?
Reagan was also from California, a blue state if there ever was one.
RitaOK, you’re missing one valuable and critical point.
Once people on our side self-identify with a ‘favorite’, it’s impossible for anyone to get them to objectively look at them again.
Malkin is providing a service to the health of Conservatism here.
She can’t wait. She can’t let the other side do it. Those who have self-identified would simply dismiss those attacks.
You know all this.
Exactly right.
Here FReepers, read it again:
When it comes to the illegal alien invasion, theres no one I trust more than Michelle Malkin. She has been steadfast in her defense of American sovereignty and the citizens.
There are red flags aplenty about Walker, but the bandwagoners dont want any rain on their parade. Seems theyd rather elect him and then find out he wants to give away the country.
We need to know exactly what Walker intends to do with the 30 million (not 11 million as weve been lied to) illegal aliens that are already here and what he would do to stop the invasion (its not immigration when they break in)
< wouldn’t change a word >
I second that...
Yep, I agree.
And what’s so hard about this after all.
We have laws.
Do Conservatives support law and order or not?
A nation that has no borders, is not a nation.
No Michelle Malkin as usual just calls it like she sees it. Try and picture Michelle pushing Jeb Bush for President. That’s a hoot.
” Do Conservatives support law and order or not?”
All you really need to know.
Obamacare was a one party fraud, and the GOPe embraced and funded it.
Amnesty is a fraud, and the GOPe embraced it and funded it.
We are very nearly reaching the point of no return.
Example of a prominent Democratic office-holder in 1960. Would you say that is true today?
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