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Scott Walker Just Dropped a Major Bomb on the RINO GOP Leadership
Politistick ^ | August 17, 2015 | Jennifer Burke

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016; gope; gopprimary; walker; weakimitation
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To: Catsrus

And yet you believe Trump, the one that changes positions weekly.


41 posted on 08/18/2015 2:55:48 AM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We’ve known this for years. And Glenn Beck is a weasel.


43 posted on 08/18/2015 3:01:43 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: onyx

BINGO! We have a winner!


44 posted on 08/18/2015 3:09:27 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Part of the “Trump” effect.


45 posted on 08/18/2015 3:10:54 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: hosepipe

China is going down, down, down. It is in trouble as a country.


46 posted on 08/18/2015 3:13:39 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: lewislynn
Scott Walker's snorted too much Koch to believe he really means any of that.

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.

47 posted on 08/18/2015 3:46:18 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker -- more conservative actions as governor than even Ronald Reagan!)
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To: PCPOET7
Trump is a wild card the GOPe didn't expect.

They thought they would just sneak Bush in with a crowded field and then expect us to take it.

Not this time!

48 posted on 08/18/2015 3:48:05 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: BobL
They are really out of options when it comes to Trump.

He got there firstest with the mostest (misquote of Nathan Bedford Forrest). I wonder if he reads war strategy.

49 posted on 08/18/2015 3:55:02 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Nextrush
Its pretty telling that Scott Walker waited until now to roll out such a message.

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.

50 posted on 08/18/2015 3:56:25 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker -- more conservative actions as governor than even Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Where the HELL was Scott Walker during the BATTLE ???


51 posted on 08/18/2015 4:04:06 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So he’s imitating Ted Cruz and Don Trump? Won’t most voters see through that and want the real thing? Or do you think this will work for him?

He was asked a question. Having the same opinion is NOT "imitating". If he answered differently we would rightly say he "doesn't get it". There are some people out there who do NOT want a Senator. Walker is a better landing spot than Kasich or Bush.
52 posted on 08/18/2015 4:13:11 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Isn’t Walker supposed to be releasing his health care plan this week?


53 posted on 08/18/2015 4:19:42 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Welcome aboard Gov. Walker. The more turning on the GOPe the better.


54 posted on 08/18/2015 4:20:35 AM PDT by cp124 (Government is value subtracted.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
“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.”

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...

Trump Gives a Glimpse of the Golden Arrow Targeted Toward McConnell/Donohue’s Achilles Heel – Intensely Strategic…

55 posted on 08/18/2015 4:24:18 AM PDT by taildragger (It's Cruz & Walker. Anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: DoodleDawg

Today in Minnesota.


56 posted on 08/18/2015 4:28:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: shibumi

Bwahahahahah!

Scares me!


57 posted on 08/18/2015 4:37:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; onyx; 2ndDivisionVet
I have always admired Walker, but I think his campaign is in a bit of trouble.

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.

58 posted on 08/18/2015 4:40:05 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Late to the party...

Cruz did it on the floor of the Senate several weeks ago.


59 posted on 08/18/2015 4:56:09 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: G Larry

Of course, he works in the same body as McConnell.


60 posted on 08/18/2015 4:59:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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