Posted on 05/11/2015 11:20:26 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Scott Walker has snagged a key Romney ally, attorney and foreign-policy hand Robert C. O’Brien, for his not-yet-announced presidential campaign. A spokeswoman for Walker’s 527 group, Our American Revival, confirmed that O’Brien will serve as a foreign-policy adviser.
O’Brien, sources say, decided to endorse Walker after being courted by several other Republican presidential contenders, including Texas senator Ted Cruz, former Texas governor Rick Perry, Florida senator Marco Rubio, and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham. He is a personal friend of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, a fellow Mormon who served as a key foreign-policy adviser on the governor’s 2012 presidential campaign.
Walker is currently in Israel on what he has called a “listening tour,” and O’Brien was in Madison last week briefing the governor ahead of the trip.
“I cannot have favorites in the race, but the O’Brien primary was fascinating to watch because many, many candidates wanted him to join their team for the simple reason that he knows everybody in the national-security world,” says radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt, a friend of both O’Brien and Romney.
O’Brien, 49, is a managing partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm Arent Fox. He previously served as the alternate representative to the United Nations and as a legal officer there. Hewitt calls him a “five-tool player” who is not only knowledgeable about national-security matters, but also a talented attorney and communicator.
“Walker wins by having somebody who can communicate on national security,” Hewitt says.
Securing O’Brien’s backing is a boon for Walker, particularly because it is Rubio who has worked the hardest among the other candidates to cultivate Romney and his backers. Rubio, who was vetted as a potential vice-presidential nominee in 2012 and served as a key surrogate on Romney’s campaign, has developed a friendly relationship with the former Massachusetts governor. He has also snapped up some of the former governor’s most prominent campaign staffers, including his political director, Rich Beeson, and his New Hampshire strategist, Jim Merrill.
In the foreign-policy arena, Walker has now peeled off two of Romney’s most high-profile advisers.
But in the foreign-policy arena, Walker has now peeled off two of Romney’s most high-profile advisers. Former Missouri senator Jim Talent has already announced his support for Walker. Both O’Brien and Talent were part of a close-knit Romney team that traveled abroad with the governor to places such as Afghanistan, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates in 2011 as election season got underway.
It’s the latest salvo in the battle between the Republican candidates and potential candidates to lock down talent as they get up to speed on a host of national and international policy issues. In February, former Florida governor Jeb Bush announced a team of foreign-policy advisers that includes a hodgepodge of officials from both his father’s and his brother’s administrations and made waves in the policy community by forbidding them from advising other candidates.
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Hmmm
Walker/Cruz or Cruz/Walker . why divide ourselves?
As governor Walker:
has lowered taxes by $2 billion in His state
Passed Many conservative laws ,more than all other candidates combined
Turned a huge deficit into a surplus
cut funding for illegal aliens
defeated democrats and the media in several elections in a blue state
Below I will post just some of Scott Walker’s accomplishments of passing conservative laws as governor including eliminating previous funding for illegal aliens . Words mean nothing .Actions , results and the record mean everything.These results of advancing conservatism show who Walker is a pro-American conservative. the liberal media’s spin are just lies to get communist Obama a 3rd third.
.I’m just putting up just SOME of Scott Walker’s accomplishments . Words mean nothing . Results and actions mean everything .
1.Walker’s 2011 Budget Eliminated A Program That Grants In-State College Tuition To Children Of Undocumented Immigrants(link===>):.
https://americanbridgepac.org/scott-walker-anti-immigrant-from-policy-to-personnel/
2. lowered taxes
3. passed conservative laws over democrat and media opposition
4. passed right to work laws
5. balanced the budget while cutting taxes and turning a huge deficit into a surplus
6. acted against climate change and against unions
7. many more conservative results
8. defeated democrats more than anyone in history to pass conservative laws
9. defeated democrats in several elections already some recall elections
Actions, results matter. Walkers record is unmatched in history
We’ll be lucky if we even have an election in 2016 as Obama will use the FCC to take over the Internet on June 12 , just in time for the election:
Americans aren’t even aware that the communist Obama is about to get the FCC to take over the Internet (Obama is taking over the Internet) with Soros socialist regulations
“(Soros strikes again!)FCC Cites Soros-Funded Marxist Group 46 Times in Regs (internet takeover) “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3267247/posts
Good for Walker.
Yeah, and I'll bet your daddy is bigger than my daddy.
If a guy lies to you, what do you do after that?
Do you just trust everything else he tells you too? Evidently...
Now I finally understand the Clinton / Obama sycophants.
Yeah, and I'll bet your daddy is bigger than my daddy.
If a guy lies to you, what do you do after that?
Do you just trust everything else he tells you too? Evidently...
Now I finally understand the Clinton / Obama sycophants.
Yeah sure I’ve bet you’ve never said a comment that you didn’t change your mind on, make a mistake saying, or you never told a lie.
Actions and conservative results matter. Words mean nothing/
A long record of passing conservative laws is more revealing as to who Walker is than some comment you keep putting up
That liberal media reporter repeated the question three times.
I don’t think there was any doubt what the question was, or are you saying Walker was too damned stupid to understand a question asked three times?
That’s some trick question there. Really sly... he slipped it in just three times.
Poor Walker. He got caught with his truth down round his ankles.
Good job, LOL
Well, just bear in mind that what people post on here has no bearing on anything anyway. The Circular Firing Squad will be getting quite a warm-up between now and the time anyone other than political junkies is paying attention, and as usual people will say all manner of stupid stuff that says more about them than anything. It’s political fanboy season.
I’m not the person who refuses to accept that the man they have fallen in love with, is a liar.
I’m not the person in need of a mental correction.
I see Walker for who he is, his good deeds and bad.
If I date a woman who does a lot of good things to and for me, what am I supposed to do when I catch her lying?
Seek mental health services, or admit to myself she’s a liar and can’t be trusted?
I literally just want to be able to survive as Obama has destroyed every industry and opportunity that i’ve had to even make a living. Obama has destroyed this country with marxism and big government and with flooding the country with immigrants . Now I'm trying to do things on the Internet and here Obama is about to ruin the Internet with the FCC regulating it. I want someone as president who will reverse what obama has done especially with Regulating the Internet.
“Walker has now peeled off two of Romney’s most high-profile advisers.”
LOL....So voting for Walker the amnesty flip flopper, is kinda like a vote for Romney. Hmmmm Ok, whatever floats your boat. LOL -LOL
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz the only true Conservative in this race.
Thank God Walker isn't pandering to anti-war libertarians on the issue like other candidates are.
I think that is a high ideal. I respect that, and I urge you to continue to try to make a difference.
I don’t agree that Walker is the man.
I had hoped he would be. If a guy uses an untruth to be the cornerstone of his run for office, it tells me lying is the number one way he seeks to achieve that office.
It disturbs me. Trust is very important to a relationship.
Keep in mind that this guy was a Romney foreign policy advisor, and hindsight has proven Romney right on a whole host of foreign policy issues he was derided for. Not the least of which was Romney’s dead-on accurate call on Russian resurgence. For which he was labeled as having an obsolete Cold War mentality.
Yes true. And they tear down other conservatives to build up their candidate.
Will there even be an election as Obama and the FCC will shut down Drudge and freerepublic and the Internet. I can’t believe even on this site people don’t seem to know or care what Obama is going to do to the Internet:
“FCC Commissioner: Feds May Come for Drudge [Isaiah 29]”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286140/posts
“(Soros strikes again!)FCC Cites Soros-Funded Marxist Group 46 Times in Regs (internet takeover) “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3267247/posts
And THAT... is the absolute truth.
I would trust NOBODY from the Romney camp.
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