Posted on 07/28/2015 4:43:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential campaign is drawing attention due to the growing presence of Kevin Hermening in his inner circle. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on Walker’s relationship with Hermening:
“At his presidential campaign launch this month, Walker introduced Hermening — a former Iranian hostage — by name, offering the former U.S. Marine a nod and a salute.
The second-term Republican governor cited Hermening when opposing the nuclear deal with Iran. Walker said Hermening had taught him that Iran “is not a place we should be doing business with.”‘
Walker has also mentioned the former Marine on Twitter. The Sentinel reports Hermening admits he is not an expert on foreign policy.
U.S. News & World Report says the two men have known each other for over 20 years:
“Walker’s deep distrust for Iran instead comes from his long friendship with one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days more than three decades ago.
Kevin Hermening was a 20-year-old Marine sergeant stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 when militant Iran students overran the building and captured him and 51 others. Thirty-five years after his release, Hermening has become the face of Walker’s foreign policy, as the two-term governor works to build credibility on a high-stakes issue heading into the 2016 presidential contest.”
They report Walker’s staff “is still working out the details of Hermening’s involvement in the campaign, including whether he’ll be paid.”
People discuss the news on Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at milwaukee.suntimes.com ...
Who?
Iranian hostages are off-limits? What?
“............There were 53 Americans held hostage after the Iranian revolution (52 were held for 444 days and one was released earlier). Only 38 are still living. Of the 26 spouses of hostages, 19 are still alive. After experiencing beatings, mock executions and prolonged imprisonment, many of the hostages and their families had a great deal of trouble resuming the lives they had been leading beforehand.
“My colleagues endured a lot of terrible physical and psychological abuse,” says Hermening, a 55-year-old investment adviser, financial planner and one-time candidate for office who grew up in Oak Creek and now lives in Mosinee, just south of Wausau. “Bad things have happened as a result of those days of captivity to a lot of (them).”.....
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Oh..I didnt recognize the name...I dont know them all but I lived the hostage crisis made by Jimmah Carter...and I Remember as soon as Reagan was elected the Iranians changed their tune...and that wasnt due to any mythical secret deal.....they were cowered because Reagan was ready to pull another entebbe raid with the help of the Israelis...Reagan would succeed where Carter had failed.
I'm guessing this is a bad thing for liberals as they hate being reminded of their utter failures.
Yeah,so?
Walker push to get this utter corrupt Pro amnesty amoral KStreet whore put in that position.
There has never been a more anti conservative / billionaire Busboy who has intentionally sabotaged conservative candidates such as Ken C and McDaniels in Ms.
Prebius is Walkers boy folks.
Then Walker hires George Will's wife,
Does it get more DC elite then those Country Club snobs .
they hate the Gop base .
Do we need to talk about the hiring Liz Mair a radical pro amnesty , pro abortion, pro Gay marriage crazy feminazi !
Walker has hired the former RNC dirty trickster who stole the MS senate primary for the establishment candidate !
Lets get real.
Walker is just W Bush Part II , a pro amnesty, pro crony capitalism , pro TPP option B for the rich donor class .
I am fed up with these phony politicians trying to fool us by saying all theses carefully worded comments about conservatism and then turning around and hiring the Liz Mairs or Mrs George Will in DC !
Not a bad rant.
My. My.
Really!?
I’ll do you one better (but this will be quoted and linked).
http://time.com/3962799/donald-trump-hillary-clinton/
When Clinton last ran for office, Trump was torn between supporting her and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. ” They’re both terrific people, and I hope they both get the nomination,” he told CNN in 2007, adding that he thought Clinton would surround herself with good people to negotiate a deal with Iran. A year later, Trump wondered publicly why Clinton wasn’t chosen as President Obama’s running-mate.
In 2012, as Obama was running for re-election, Trump called Clinton “terrific” again in an interview with Fox News, saying she performed well as Secretary of State.
“Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman,” he told Greta Van Susteren. “I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she’s given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her.
And on Fox and Friends on Wednesday, Trump explained why he donated to Clinton’s campaigns.
“I’m a businessman. I contribute to everybody,” Trump said. “When I needed Hillary, she was there. If I say ‘go to my wedding,’ they go to my wedding.”
Check out his ties to Grover Norquist. You will really like that.
Don’t forget Tonette Tarantino Walker, Walker’s Italian-American wife. When she tells him to shut up, he listens.
She Comes From a Family of Democrats in Milwaukee
“Tonette, born Tonette Tarantino in 1956 in Milwaukee, grew up in a working-class neighborhood of the city.”
“Her family owned several small businesses in the area, and she was brought up with political views vastly different than those for which her husband has become known.”
“She said in an interview with Brava magazine that members of her family “were Democrats and they were union people,” but that politics were put aside with her marriage and the birth of her sons.””
However Walker’s wife and their two sons supported the gay marriage bill. Beware the hand that rocks the cradle makes the policy.
“This is a lesson [they] [social conservatives] learned the hard way. From Betty Ford to Laura Bush, we’ve never had a pro-life first lady in the post-Roe v. Wade world. And — the theory goes — it’s not much of a coincidence that, despite all the rhetoric around election time, social conservatives have relatively little legislative progress to show for the many Republican electoral victories that accrued in the last four decades.”
“You won’t hear this mentioned in polite company, but it is similarly thought that Ted Olson wouldn’t have come to support gay marriage, had his conservative wife Barbara Olson not been murdered on 9-11. Olson subsequently married a “lifelong Democrat.””
(Taken from various online news reports)
Interesting tidbits. Thanks
I thought Walker also had a well known Iraq war veteran advising him, but I can’t remember his name.
Can you confirm CW?
Captain Michael Gallagher, USMC
"Fellow, Marine Corps' Junior Officer Strategic Intelligence Program Mike Gallagher is currently a fellow in the Marine Corps’ Junior Officer Strategic Intelligence Program and a student in the joint M.A. in Security Studies/Ph.D. in International Relations program at Georgetown University. Prior to this assignment, he served on General Petraeus’ CENTCOM Assessment Team and deployed twice to Al Anbar Province between 2007 and 2008 as a commander of intelligence teams.
Mike holds a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from National Defense Intelligence College. He received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, earning a certificate in Near Eastern Studies. At Georgetown, he intends to explore the role of intelligence in grand strategy design and presidential decision-making. Mike speaks Arabic and grew up in both Green Bay, WI and Costa Mesa, CA."
Thanks...Walker seems to be choosing some good people to advise him on foreign policy.
As a player in the Reagan campaign in Illinois who’s print campaign material made it into The Reagan Library I’m very pleased and surprised with what Walker is doing.
There’s much talk about Trump. Who to me comes across as a two dimensional candidate and a type I’ve dealt with as a former campaign consultant. There are times when an opponent offers or makes a move which should be an issue and should be allowed to make the discussion if you are a principled candidate. Such as the Cruz confrontation with McConnell.
Unless you don’t agree. And in this case the regime and what Cruz calls the DC party media and apparattcheks don’t. They wanted to kill it. When Trump dumped on Walker using Joy’s garabage he damm near suceeded in shoving the Cruz expose off the front page. Thus trying to kill two birds with one stone. Because to Trump he’s gotta be on that front page.
As it is Trump also dumped on the Hill&Billy show, anybody hear about that ? Luckily coverage on both fortunately went nowhere and we’re talking about what the Senate is about.
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