Posted on 11/30/2013 8:32:56 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
MILWAUKEE
In 2011, thousands of government employees and others, enraged by Gov. Scott Walker’s determination to break the ruinously expensive and paralyzing grip that government workers’ unions had on Wisconsin, took over the capitol building in Madison. With chanting, screaming and singing supplemented by bullhorns, bagpipes and drum circles, their cacophony shook the building that the squalor of their occupation made malodorous. They spat on Republican legislators and urinated on Walker’s office door. They shouted, “This is what democracy looks like!”
When they and Democratic legislators failed to prevent passage of Act 10, they tried to defeat — with a scurrilous smear campaign that backfired — an elected state Supreme Court justice. They hoped that changing the court’s composition would get Walker’s reforms overturned. When this failed, they tried to capture the state Senate by recalling six Republican senators. When this failed, they tried to recall Walker. On the night that failed — he won with a larger margin than he had received when elected 19 months earlier — he resisted the temptation to proclaim, “This is what democracy looks like!”
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He lives in Wisconsin.
Yeah, I dropped that puppy back in the early 90s (I think) when he wrote his "The Second Amendment is irrelevant" article.
As I recall, Harry Truman didn’t have a college education either, but he was one of our best twentieth century presidents.
I’ve known you on this site for years. Thank you for standing up for our governor. I’m tired of all the knee jerk a$$holes who think they know what Walker stands for and are never right.
About three weeks ago I replied To someone who thought Walker was not pro life. For goodness sakes his father is a minister. Walker’s the guy who was helpful in shutting down Planned Parenthood sites and has commented about being anti abortion.
The people on this site have become so focused on one person and bad mouth all others that I fear we’ll insure the election of democrats because they’ll stay home if they don’t get their way. Walker didn’t seem to flinch when Dale Schultz started voting on the democrat side of the aisle. He and the rest of the republicans (and yes to this site...gasp some are RINO types) stuck together because they needed to do the right thing.
I know I’m swimming up stream here, but I’ll stand gladly with Bill Buckley and say let’s vote for the conservative most likely to get elected...... and for heaven’s sake don’t stay home because your guy didn’t win.
So thanks afraidfortherepublic for standing up for Walker. All Republicans have flaws, but let’s not get so pissed that you feel it’s better to stay home on Election Day.. Then the democrats win.
Sounds great. I will support him!
I would certainly support Walker over Christie or Bush.
I would too. Walker was able to lead a successful taxpayers reform movement that accomplished the seemingly impossible in a usually Blue state.
Krispy Kreme is an “action governor” too. Doesn’t mean I want him in the White House.
Thank you. Your words humble me.
Scott Walker has a college education. He dropped out of Marquette University a few credits shy of his graduation to take a job ant to marry his lovely wife, Tonette.
Tonette?
Isn't that like the first musical instrument everyone owns? It's a black plastic flute-like deal, tapered at one end, with a bunch of finger-holes and a removable mouthpiece.
That is the First Lady of Wisconsin who is a lovely person!
I’m sure she is. But somebody named her after a plastic flute.
If he runs for President, the RATs will ridicule that for all it’s worth.
I like WAlker, he has the kind of courage sorely lacking on the Republican side.
Hopefully it’s a nickname derived from Antoinette or something...hmmmm, that one could be problematic as well.
Maybe Toni.
Her name is her name. Not going to make her over for leftists.
They make fun of her, turn it on them, for making fun of a woman’s name. Do they also make fun of Shaniqua or Letoya when they are out of the room too?
Everyone has different names that are meaningful for the family.
Well, look what they did to every Republican ever:
Reagan, Quail, Bush, Judge Bork, Clarence Thomas, Condaleza Rice, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin and her family, Rick Perry, Ted Cruz...
I think they call them Sharia and Latrine.
I like Scott Walker. I was immensely impressed and elated when he crushed the forces of darkness in the statehouse.
But I have heard him mumble and backtrack on illegal immigration. I have heard him criticize Ted Cruz and others for "not working to get something done"--when getting less 'done' in Washington is what we need more of.
Does that make me want to oppose him in the future? Hell no! I will be eager to hear him sharpen his policies in the future.
But I gotta say...if every time he or other potentially great conservative candidates are questioned or criticized, the response is throw around "@$$holes" etc., that isn't going to help him or any of us who want to be in his corner.
I think they call them Sharia and Latrine.
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See? But we’re allowed to make fun, it is the compassionate leftists who can be hanged if they give Mrs Walker any grief.
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