Scott Walker's Richard Nixon moment?
Is Walker campaigning in 2016 for Favors in 2020?
By Rohn Bishop
In many ways 1964 was the tail of two candidates in waiting; Richard Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller.
“That’s right Rocky, hit ‘em where they live!”, yelled baseball legend Jackie Robinson from the floor of San Francois’s COW Palace. Robinson is a “Rockefeller Republican” and a delegate for Nelson Rockefeller at the Republican National Convention. The delegates in the hall are booing and jeering as Rockefeller, New York’s larger than life Governor with a moderate to liberal bent on the issues, speaks to the convention in opposition to the party’s hard right turn, specifically, he speaks in opposition to the John Birch Society while he pushes to maintain a strong Civil Rights resolution in the GOP’s platform.
As the jeers rang up towards Rockefeller, an Alabama Goldwater Delegate sat silent, his eyes trained in anger on Robinson, the first black man to play for a Major League Baseball team, when finally overcome by emotion, the Alabamian leaped to his feet and stepped toward Robinson, before being restrained by his wife. “Turn him loose, lady, turn him loose,” yelled Robinson.
Emotions in the COW palace were high, a riot felt inevitable, and the party’s already long shot chances against the popular new president, Lyndon Johnson, were slipping away, on live TV.
In the lead up to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco’s COW Palace, where just eight years earlier the Party of Lincoln re-nominated Dwight Eisenhower, the GOP was having a contentious debate about its identity and what direction it should go moving forward. In response to LBJ’s big government “Great Society “programs and his federal intervention into what some conservatives saw as a State’s Rights issue, segregation, the party turned to “Mr. Conservative”, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, one of only SIX Republicans to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/opinion/perspectives/scott-walkers-richard-nixon-moment
Go Governor Walker!
Endorsed Ted Cruz and Cruz's biggest primary win.
If Walker had campaigned with Trump and had been allied with him, big deal. That would be the facts. I wouldn't be in denial and make personal attacks on others about it.
