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.
And yet you believe Trump, the one that changes positions weekly.
We’ve known this for years. And Glenn Beck is a weasel.
BINGO! We have a winner!
Part of the “Trump” effect.
China is going down, down, down. It is in trouble as a country.
So, that is why Ted Cruz is cozying up to the Koch brothers and hoping to get a chunk of their cash?
You can't have it both ways, unless you are lying hypocrite.
They thought they would just sneak Bush in with a crowded field and then expect us to take it.
Not this time!
He got there firstest with the mostest (misquote of Nathan Bedford Forrest). I wonder if he reads war strategy.
Either you have not been paying attention or you are a LIAR.
Walker got no help in the Wisconsin recall from the GOP-e until Walker showed that holding strong to conservative values was winning the day.
Walker has been speaking out against the Washington insiders from Day One. The GOP-e did not support Walker's conservative reforms in Wisconsin, but he did them anyway.....and the list is a long one (if you are honest).
But Walker is not a loudmouth. He is reasonable, thoughtful and steady. Walker is the tortoise, Trump is the Hare.
Where the HELL was Scott Walker during the BATTLE ???
Isn’t Walker supposed to be releasing his health care plan this week?
Welcome aboard Gov. Walker. The more turning on the GOPe the better.
So we are freaks and vulgarians...
That's ok, this is a family program, I won't post what I think of Mitch and his ilk.
But we now know the mechanism of how they stopped "the base". Read this article and spread the word far and wide...
Today in Minnesota.
Bwahahahahah!
Scares me!
He did not have enough passion or charisma in the debate, and now it's clear he should have said this stuff before Trump, should not have been so timid.
It's not fatal, there's a long way to go, but like it or not, like him or not, this is now the Donald's race to win or lose.
The rest have been too timid. Not realizing the outrage the silent majority has been experiencing is a fatal flaw of the GOPe and now even those trying to run counter to it.
Late to the party...
Cruz did it on the floor of the Senate several weeks ago.
Of course, he works in the same body as McConnell.
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