Joe Walsh is playing the foil.
Joe Walsh is playing the foil.
It seems like an easy thing to see through. Maybe it's because I've heard Joe Walsh on the car radio. I know his brand. His outrage and disgust regarding tRump seems sudden and suspicious. To those that may not have ever heard of him before, he might sound almost reasonable. He might be saying the things that many of us have been thinking for a long time.
But I'm not fooled for a moment. That's not how thing work on the right.
It's a setup. Walsh is going after tRump like a heel going after a face. It's classic kayfabe.
They'll have debates which will coincidentally occur right after the Democratic debates to strategically gain back the news cycle. There will be lots of yelling, boasting and name-calling. There will also be whatever Mr. Walsh has to say, too.
The tRump can't stand having Democratic debates going on without his being involved somehow. He needs that attention. He needs to barge into the process. He needs to have an audience watch him put someone down.
Walsh might be the proverbial rat leaving a sinking ship.... but I think it's more likely he has stepped up to take punches from the champ before the big fight.
Walsh is not there to win and he knows it.
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Weld is a rational, thoughtful candidate but Walsh seems like an ass. He was on the news giving interviews and I have already seen him twice in the past 24 hours. Both times he was nauseating...
at least from what I've seen.
He's been loudly anti-Trump since the inauguration (or possibly before, but that pre-dates my personal observance of him) -- long before it would be profitable to adopt the position of a scarecrow/strawman. He has probably assessed which way the wind is blowing right now and decided it is a good moment for him to try to magnify his own national profile in the context of being an anti-Trumpist Repuke.
Walsh is a racist teabagger asshole -- just because he's a racist and an asshole, doesn't mean he's aligned with Trump. There's also the teabagger bit, which seems genuine -- as genuine as any teabaggers are anyhow (which might not be much, but it's more genuine than Trump most of the time).
Also as an aside, and not signifying anything particular, he totes looks like Jeffrey Epstein in certain photo comparisons. Blech!
... Trump won't be there. Maybe Walsh and Weld can debate.
I see people jockeying for future postition after the Trump shitshow ends.
JMO
