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Scott Walker Digs in on How His Experience With Unions Shows He Won’t ‘Back Down’ to ISIS
The Wisconsin governor expounded on his controversial comments at CPAC last month.
By Rebecca Nelson





Scott Walker(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

March 26, 2015 .......................

On the Hugh Hewitt radio show Wednesday, the Wisconsin governor and probable presidential candidate expounded on his controversial comments last month comparing his experience with union protesters to how he'd face the terrorist group the Islamic State. "If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world," he said at CPAC, referring to the ultimately unsuccessful union-led effort to recall him in 2012.

"It's about leadership," Walker told Hewitt Wednesday. "The closest thing that I can compare to the type of pressure the next president's going to be under is what I went through four years ago with not just the protest, but the death threats, with the intimidation, with all the interruptions, with the recall, and all the things that happened. And we didn't back down."

He continued: "We won without caving not just when it came to the ballot box. We won without caving when it came to policy. And I think that's what Americans want, whether it's taking on radical Islamic terrorism, or whether it's taking on the size and scope of the federal government, or whether it's pushing to put the power back in the hands of the hardworking taxpayers."

Critics pounced on Walker's original CPAC comment, charging that he'd unfairly compared union protesters to terrorists, disparaging the former and trivializing the latter. On Fox News Sunday a few days after the conference, Walker claimed that he was "not comparing" the two...................



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[avebury]

1. This could be interesting.

[Still In Wisconsin]

2. So he literally doubled down on the dumbest thing he has ever said

Walker never ceases to amaze me. It's either chutzpah, or just being a schmuck in the truest sense of the word. Maybe both.

[lutefisk]

3. Clearly, his development stopped at some point during adolescence

He's even retained that awkward, boastful, adolescent boy doofusness. That is not attractive in a 47 year old man, and certainly disqualifies him as a presidential candidate.

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. Unfortunately, it did not disqualify Boosh.

Let's hope Walker doesn't get by with it.

[ladym55]

4. Didn't he hide during the protests?

Didn't he whine about how mean the union people were to him? Wasn't he a big, ol' coward the whole time?

My next question: How many of the countries of the Middle East can Scotty find on a map? Is he as geographically challenged as Sarah Pallin?

[Still In Wisconsin]

8. No way! I thought he went out on the Capitol steps with a bullhorn and drove them all off,

torches, pitchforks and all.


Wait, he didn't?

[Scuba]

5. All the death threats and intimidation came from Walker's backers.

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. yup. False flag operation.

Squatty is very, very fond of telling the story about how one of the protesters threatened to "gut Tonette like a deer."

Never verified, because it probably didn't happen.

[midnight]

6. I wonder how our men and women in the military will feel knowing this?