Wisconsin Bully Gov. Scott Walker's New Hard Core Right-Wing Message [View all]

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/wisconsin-bully-gov-scott-walkers-new-hard-core-right-wing-message



Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is fine-tuning a new stump speech that demonizes unions and protesters, recounts how he and his wife received death threats as he went after labor, says God was preparing him then to run for president now, and notes he has repeatedly won office in a blue state.

Walker appeared to be testing many of these same storylines when speaking at late January’s Iowa Freedom Summit, an event hosted by Rep. Steven King, a Tea Party Republican, and sponsored by various Koch brother-funded groups. Walker repeated them on Monday night in a 30-minute conference call to Iowa Republicans, according to the Des Moines Register:

“One threatened to ‘gut my wife like a deer,’ and another note said that if his wife didn’t stop him, he’d be ‘the first Wisconsin governor ever assassinated,’ he [Walker] said.

“Part of me looks back and thinks that maybe God put me and my family through all this for a purpose – and it wasn’t just to get things done in Wisconsin, and it wasn’t just to win all those elections in a state that normally doesn’t go Republican. Maybe it was to set us to... help get our country on the right track.”