I didn’t know anything about this guy. Interesting!
I may actually register temporarily as a Republican so I can cross over and vote for Walsh in the primary. I can’t think of anything that will help Dems more than making Trump have to spend money in states to defend his primary nomination ahead of the general election.
And yes, let’s please help Joe Walsh run as an independent in the general.
Trump is too crazy and hateful for Joe Walsh?
From Walsh’s Twitter feed:
Sounds like he’s saying what Dems should be saying, but are by and large too chickenshit to say.
That’s not remotely fair. Democrats, including Pelosi and all the presidential candidates, say the same thing. Why are some people so invested in falsely painting Democrats as craven cowards?
He also said this:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-walsh/joe-walsh-becomes-second-republican-to-challenge-trump-for-white-house-idUSKCN1VF0IM
"There were plenty of times I went beyond the policy and the idea differences, and I got personal and I got hateful,” Walsh said. “I said some ugly things about President Obama that I regret. And, and it’s difficult, but I think that helped create Trump, and I feel responsible for that.”
I have to say, I admire his willingness to come out and admit this.
Impressive!
Following up on my earlier defense of Democrats, here are some of those allegedly “chickenshit” Dems:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/11/biden-trump-foreign-policy-address-1405878
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/politics/beto-orourke-trump-white-nationalist-cnntv/index.html
The difference is, Walsh is doing what he can. He’s backing up his words by running against Trump. Pelosi’s actually accused Trump of violating the Constitution, but she’s not doing a damned thing about it. So her words are vacuous, and everybody knows it.
Oh gosh, where to start? Dukakis’ failure to respond to the Willie Horton ads and the “what if your wife were raped?” jabs? Kerry’s failure to fight back against the Swift Boat accusations? Hillary’s “when they go low, we go high” crap? The promises in 2000 to work for overhauling the Electoral College? etc. etc…
What do you want her to do? Push an Impeachment motion through the House so it can run into a brick wall of Republican opposition in the Senate? Isn’t that exactly the same thing the Republicans tried with Bill Clinton in 1998-99?
The difference is, Bill Clinton wasn’t running for re-election in 2000, so the nation didn’t have to watch him run around the country, campaign rally after campaign rally, screaming, “They tried to impeach me, and they couldn’t! It’s all political! I’m the victim! Vote for me!”
So, RTFirefly, you’re Nancy Pelosi. You can’t impeach Trump all by yourself, and you can’t have a sitting President arrested. What do YOU do?
I hope only one Republican runs against Trump. I don’t want the Republican anti-Trump vote to split. But Trump is lucky. He’ll treat this like a speed bump.
That is just as false as your earlier point.
It’s also goalpost moving:
“Saying”, “saying”, “say”. But now it’s not about their words at all? :dubious:
ETA: I wonder if the GOP will even allow primaries this cycle.
I think the only good this brings is it forces the Trump campaign to pay attention to their own side of the fence rather than having a free hand at attacking the democrats.
Having lived all of my life in the Chicago area I am fully aware of what an idiot Walsh is. However, if a Republican wants to call out Trump for being a child, and unhinged I’ll certainly welcome that. Neither of them, however, is fit to hold the office. But let the mud slinging begin!
If Walsh uses Funk #49 as his campaign song, he’s got my vote.
I’d bet that the real Joe wouldn’t have it! 
FWIW, PBS Newshour i-view couple hours ago.
Some other Dem presidential candidates who’ve blasted Trump in no uncertain terms:
Trump will certainly have an easier time of it if he can convince states to cancel their primaries. Joe Walsh (not the cool one) is not in favor:
“Trump and his allies and the Republican National Committee are doing whatever they can do to eliminate primaries in certain states and make it very difficult for primary challengers to get on the ballot in a number of states,” said former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), who recently launched his primary campaign against the president. “It’s wrong, the RNC should be ashamed of itself, and I think it does show that Trump is afraid of a serious primary challenge because he knows his support is very soft.”
“Primary elections are important, competition within parties is good, and we intend to be on the ballot in every single state no matter what the RNC and Trump allies try to do,” Walsh added. “We also intend to loudly call out this undemocratic bull on a regular basis.”