From Think Progress:
Republican governors Bobby Jindal (LA) and Scott Walker (WI) spoke out against Mitt Romney’s claim that Obama won because he gave minorities and young people “big gifts” in the form of Obamacare, his DREAM directive, and partial college loan forgiveness. At the Republican Governors Association meeting in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jindal called the statement “absolutely wrong,” saying, “I absolutely reject that notion.” Walker, who was on a panel with Jindal when he denounced Romney, agreed that the GOP isn’t “just for people who are currently not dependent on the government. It’s for all Americans.”Both governors, who were Romney surrogates, stayed quiet during Romney’s earlier iteration of this idea, when he told donors that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are victims” and will never “take personal responsibility.” Walker ducked the controversy at the time, saying “That’s a statement he has to take on, not myself.” Jindal also deferred judgment, refusing to “be one of these political pundits.”But after a definitive loss down the ticket on Election Night, Republicans are doing some “brutally honest” soul-searching about the future of their party. Jindal was especially outspoken, imploring the GOP to “stop being the stupid party.” He was blunt in his new found criticism for Romney in an interview with Politico...
Jindal and Walker can distance themselves all they want from Romney's offensive statements. It doesn't make them any less odious than they already are.
ReplyDeleteWhile visiting Philadelphia last July, who did I spot outside Independence Hall but the cross-eyed governor of Wisconsin, along with his family. When I first saw him, I impulsively told my husband and my niece "There's that asshole governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker" in a loud enough voice that he noticed and kept his distance from me for the rest of the tour.
If there was a like button for that story, I would have clicked it. Walker has earned that disdain in spades.
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