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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 07:48 AM Feb 2015

Wisconsin Bully Gov. Scott Walker's New Hard Core Right-Wing Message

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/wisconsin-bully-gov-scott-walkers-new-hard-core-right-wing-message



Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is fine-tuning a new stump speech that demonizes unions and protesters, recounts how he and his wife received death threats as he went after labor, says God was preparing him then to run for president now, and notes he has repeatedly won office in a blue state.

Walker appeared to be testing many of these same storylines when speaking at late January’s Iowa Freedom Summit, an event hosted by Rep. Steven King, a Tea Party Republican, and sponsored by various Koch brother-funded groups. Walker repeated them on Monday night in a 30-minute conference call to Iowa Republicans, according to the Des Moines Register:

“One threatened to ‘gut my wife like a deer,’ and another note said that if his wife didn’t stop him, he’d be ‘the first Wisconsin governor ever assassinated,’ he [Walker] said.

“Part of me looks back and thinks that maybe God put me and my family through all this for a purpose – and it wasn’t just to get things done in Wisconsin, and it wasn’t just to win all those elections in a state that normally doesn’t go Republican. Maybe it was to set us to... help get our country on the right track.”
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Wisconsin Bully Gov. Scott Walker's New Hard Core Right-Wing Message (Original Post) xchrom Feb 2015 OP
You get what you vote for. Katashi_itto Feb 2015 #1
Or you get what other guys vote for... HereSince1628 Feb 2015 #2
+1 he apparently is who the people of WI want for a Governor ChosenUnWisely Feb 2015 #6
So God is to blame for the entire GOP Presidential clown car? They were all Chosen?? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #3
Come from a proud line.... remember Sen. Frist... a nurse/nanny salin Feb 2015 #4
This guy makes me very uneasy deutsey Feb 2015 #5
 

ChosenUnWisely

(588 posts)
6. +1 he apparently is who the people of WI want for a Governor
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:45 AM
Feb 2015

Sad but it is what it is.

Wisconsinites should be proud of their favorite son!

salin

(48,955 posts)
4. Come from a proud line.... remember Sen. Frist... a nurse/nanny
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 10:56 AM
Feb 2015

held him and said she saw that God had a plan for him to become president. I seem to recall other recent GOPers assert the same thing.

There's a term for it: Delusions of Grandeur.

Or God has a sense of humor and pits the GOP 'ordained' candidates against each other?

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
5. This guy makes me very uneasy
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:42 AM
Feb 2015

With the Kochs backing him (i.e., unlimited financial resources from two soulless economic royalists wielding massive power and influence), this stooge with lifeless eyes has as much a chance of "winning" as GWB had in 2000, imo.

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