No, the GOP-E is the establishment... Are you really arguing that Walker is not part of the party establishment? Better yet, are you arguing the BUSH’s aren’t?
I give Kudos to the WI machine, I really do, if the GOP had such a solid machine in every state, they’d never lose an election, but WI is the exception no the rule when it comes to having a solid party machine in place.
I like Walker, but if you think that national party money and operatives aren’t in WI then you are in denial. No doubt the recall elections and the stupidity of the dems to run across the border rather than do their job, certainly helped Walker and the party build the machine into what it is there today, but don’t think for one minute that WI Republican machine isn’t part of the establishment.
Do you honestly think for one minute that Walker would endorce someone other than Cruz before the vote? If you did, you are beyond naive. DO you think the big national players out the RNC weren’t meeting with the machinations across the state to stop Trump there? If you do you are again naive. I’d love to see the logs of the charter jets in and out of Madison in the weeks and months leading up to the primary there. Sure they would contain a lot of the usual suspects on inspection, and i’m sure Walker made time in his busy “independent” leaning schedule to meet with them as well.
Walker is no more GOP-E than he is a secret Clintonista. That the GOP-E poured $$$$$$ (their substitute for brains or work) into Wisconsin's primary meant that they agreed with Walker that Cruz rather than Trump should be the nominee of the remaining candidates. That also does not make Cruz as good as Walker. Cruz is just all we have left that is not a moderate mushball like Kasich or a crude rank barbarian know nothing like Trump. If not for his sellout on the Gang of Eight Bill and his repeated dishonesty about it, I thought Rubio was a lot better than Kasich or Trump.
The enemy of my enemy is able to be my friend temporarily without my marrying that enemy of my enemy. Walker, Ryan (whom I despise), and every other Wisconsin Republican with active brain cells and some without joined together to stop Trump. I am not at all naive. I've been at this for more than 50 years. The last time I was really suckered was when I drank the Goldwater kool aid and thought he was a conservative when I was eighteen and did not yet know that he was a social issue revolutionary, militantly pro-abort, militantly pro-perversion, with heavy ties to Big Murder, aka Planned Barrenhood.
BTW, I live about 6 miles south of Ryan's Wisconsin district. Before Walker, the Wisconsin GOP was the typical brain dead GOP joke. Lots of hot air a few good talk show hosts and a bunch of guys wh just did not know how to play this game. B sheer force of will, Walker seized Milwaukee County's Board from Demonratic corruptocrats. that seemed about as likely as the GOP carrying Chicago. The Wisconsin Demonrats consist of the Dane County commies of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the urban gimmedats of Milwaukee and labor union (particularly state and municipal and county unionized employees) zombies.
Walker has enacted Right to Work to defund the union bosses and the Demonratic Party first as to public employees including teachers but not police and firefighters, then in the private sector. He and his legislative majorities enacted significant pro-life legislation, photo ID for voting, took control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and did a whole lot more AND now is working on ending tenure at University of Wisconsin and other state campuses. The bad guys (including Chicago union thugs) seized the State Capitol in a violent protest of Right to Work. Walker put a stop to it. The thugs subjected him and his lieutenant governor and several state senators to a recall election. He generally beat the hell out of them losing only as to one or two legislators. He defeated an attempt to elect a red feminazi to the state supreme court. Their prosecutors launched clearly illegal "John Doe" investigations in order to roust Walker supporters from their beds and to rifle their houses for "proof" of campaign finance violations. The court system squashed the investigation as unconstitutional. A book should be written. These are only highlights. If Scott Walker has made himself into the Wisconsin GOP "Establishment," that is nothing similar to the national GOP quislings. Each of the 50 states should have an "Establishment" like Walker's and then the Demonrats would flee for Cuba where they belong.
Walker did not support Trump? That was because he recognized Trump as an impending disaster and not because Walker has a liberal bone in his body. He does not. That is why Scott Walker would not endorse anyone but Cruz, an imperfect candidate, but leagues better than Mushball Kasich or Attila The Donald.