Posted on 08/18/2015 12:32:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made no friends with the RINO GOP establishment on Monday, going where establishment-backed “moderate” squishy candidates like RINOs Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham or Chris Christie would probably never go.
Appearing on the Glenn Beck radio program on Monday, Walker told Beck that RINO leader Mitch McConnell is “part of the problem” in Washington, citing broken GOP promises regarding Obamacare and funding Obama’s illegal amnesty.
“Mitch McConnell is part of the problem. Will you go so far as saying that there are people in the GOP that are part of the establishment, like Mitch McConnell, that are part of the problem?” Beck asked Walker, referring to a NY Times story which Beck said that Mitch McConnell told constitutional conservative, Senator Mike Lee, how he has to decide to stick with these “Tea Party freaks or his [McConnell’s Republican] party.”
“Yes. I hear it all the time and I share that sentiment,” the Wisconsin governor answered. “We were told if Republicans got the majority in the United States Senate, there would be a bill on the president’s desk to repeal Obamacare. It is August. Where is that bill? Where was that vote?” he asked rhetorically.
“We were told they’d do something about illegal immigration. If it hadn’t been for me and 24 other governors out there, the president would be able to do what he claimed he couldn’t do 22 times before last November, and then went off and did it a couple of weeks after the election,” Walker explained.
Walker said that the frustration with broken promises by GOP leadership is why “non-elected candidates are surging in the polls.” “People are sending a very clear message,” he asserted.
Beck seemed pleased after the interview that Walker didn’t get “weasely” or tiptoe around the question when asked about McConnell.
He needed to do this in order to stay in contention.
A conspiricist might say that Walker is an establishment politician and that McConnell was OK with the criticism. Similiar to Boehner being OK with the HOR candidates criticising him during the last congressional election.
I think Walker was just being honest in his criticism. He’s not as ‘establishment’ as most people think he is IMO.
He has also received donations from some deep pocket donors.
VOTE Cruz or learn Chinese..
That’s what I tried to say in my earlier post but you said it better.
“VOTE Cruz or learn Chinese..”
My candidates are Cruz and Walker.
Well, thank God for that. Those big donors likely agree with Ted Cruz. Big difference between donations from PACS that agree with their candidate, than money from PACS trying to buy a candidate's allegiance.
Impossible to compete without campaign money.
Money is great and it used to usually work - nearly always. But money isn't helping Jeb Bush right now.
You force McConnell out and you force Boehner out by gathering together our own conservative PACs (we do have them, but their records are pretty piss poor with regard to supporting actual candidate, and getting them to do some hometown campaigning against the two instead of fundraising. You start by targeting the major employers in their state and district and getting to the workers with the truth. You could even start by organizing campaigns to major businesses where they live and remind them about customer satisfaction.
All this isn't easy and it takes determination and these conservative Tea Partyesque PACs would have to step up and actually do something. I don't know....this is all just a dream I have, about when people used to care and did what was right instead of just chasing money.
People should hesitate before condemning Walker for saying things like this (as if...), especially since he has every right to say it.
I believe that Cruz is. No way that McConnell gave him permission to call him a liar (on the floor of the Senate no less), which McConnell is, Cruz walked that line of integrity all on his own. Trump I trust, insofar as not playing a political game in castigating the GOPe from the outside, because he owes them nothing and they can give him nothing he wants-he doesn’t want a congressional seat or a committee chairmanship, he wants to be President.
The rest of them, forget it. They could have been calling out McConnell &Co long before now for his lying and their utter betrayal of every promise they made to get elected, but they’re just now noticing?
I could vote for Trump, Cruz and Walker-that’s it.
My candidates are Cruz and Walker.
Good.. Trump can be in the cabinet if he’s serious abut helping..
Where he can be watched and evaluated..
Coming out of the BLUE is what democrats do..
AND how we got so many RINOS.. that became the “thing” that wouldn’t leave.. like some relatives..
If we’re lucky socialism can be given its walking papers..
and crony capitalism as well..
Washington D.C. can be finally “FLUSHED”.. for God’s sake..
my order s Walker then crcuze. I am really hesitant about Trump. I no narcissi tendencies when I see them and there are a few. But I know that I really don’t know how much is reality and how much is him being painted into a corner by the GOP establishment. the one thing I do know is that I don’t want Jeb bush.
“...And, for the party’s top donors, who hear pleas from all corners, “it’s more than some of these other candidates have for a path to victory,” says a GOP strategist familiar with Cruz’s pitch. As for those dreaded consultants the senator so often maligns, he’s not beyond their reach.
The Cruz campaign has paid Axiom Strategies, the consulting firm owned by Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, about $30,000 a month. A spokesman for the campaign says that fee covers Roe’s salary as well as those of three other campaign staffers. J2 Strategic Communications, the firm established by Cruz’s senior adviser, Jason Johnson, is also paid $20,000 a month for campaign work, which a Cruz spokesman says is the closest their operation comes to a traditional campaign-consultant relationship.
One of Roe’s former clients was former Texas lieutenant governor David Dewhurst, the establishment candidate defeated in a 2012 Senate bid by political upstart Ted Cruz.
That’s how quickly friends of the Republican establishment can become foes, and vice versa. Now, Cruz is hoping for a similar transformation if he manages to make his renegade brand that of the Republican standard-bearer.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422667/how-ted-cruz-wooed-top-GOP-donors
“At last, Governor Walker is hitting the right note!!”
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Yes, and about time...Cruz has been hitting that particular note for a long time ALONG WITH MANY OTHER RIGHT NOTES.
Well!
This is the sort of thing I like to hear Scott!
At long last, I had given up on you as a RINO.
Perhaps there is hope for you yet.
keep it up!!!!
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Indeed ! He should have come out of the gate swinging like this.
Was unaware of the Beck deal but Walker was on FOX yesterday and his whole deal seemed to be that he was very similar to Trump in so many ways, especially on immigration.
I like Walker and really liked him early on but he seems to have problems with his kick-starter and maybe being over-muffled. Maybe if he cranked up like an old Harley with straight pipes he would get folks to focus more on who he is.
Who would we send to Washington who wouldn't be corrupted/bought/owned by the cartel ?
Its pretty telling that Scott Walker waited until now to roll out such a message.
Cruz was there earlier and the Trump factor is absolutely the driving force behind his change of words to call out McConnell by name.
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