Walker made the case to Palin and a few of her aides about why she should endorse him.Halperin says former Governor Palin told Walker that she would be busy with her book tour through December, but she planned to start helping candidates beginning in January. Palin aide Jason Recher, one of the former McCain staffers who remained fiercely loyal to Sarah Palin, asked Walker what kind of help he would like from the former Alaska governor. Walker said that he needed help as soon ASAP because the White House will likely pour a lot of resources into the Wisconsin governor's race. Walker wants Palin's endorsement, and he asked her to campaign with him in the state's Fox Valley area.
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Walker briefed Palin on his front-running poll standing, and his strong fundraising to date. Palin, tired from a long day, engagingly asked Walker what his campaign slogan is, who is involved in his bid, and why he is running for governor. She urged him to adopt a positive, optimistic message and said it was a good sign that Republicans won gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia earlier in the month by running on such sunny platforms.
Scott Walker served four terms as a state assemblyman and is currently serving a second term as Milwaukee County Executive. He campaigned for the office on a platform of fiscal responsibility, and he voluntarily took a salary cut after taking office.
The revelation that Walker wants a Palin endorsement and has asked her to campaign for him comes on the heels of news that Marco Rubio in Florida and Mark Kirk in Illinois would both welcome Sarah Palin's endorsement.
But... but... but all of the lefty blogs and Obama-loving "mainstream" media have assured us that GOP candidates consider Sarah Palin to be political poison because she's too "divisive." Surely they wouldn't pour water on our legs and tell us that its raining... would they?
Related: More from Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel.
- JP
Never heard of Jason Recher before. I wonder if Sarah has hired him on full time through SarahPAC. Here is an article about him:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bu.edu/washjocenter/newswire_pg/spring2007/stories/Recher.htm
Sounds like he knows New Hampshire like the back of his hand!!! Even worked on John Sununu's campaign. Now that just might come in handy. So much for that talk show business!!
Why are such intimate details of a meeting down to who said what leaking out? I don't like it. This has gotto stop.
ReplyDeleteEver since John McCain announced Palin, I'm still scratching my head trying to discover what exactly has she ever said that was concidered "divisive".
ReplyDeleteAny criticism of His Lordship The One is considered "divisive" by the Obamunists. I'm convinced that the real reason the Left hates Sarah Palin is not because of her beauty, her pro-life advocacy, her conservatism or even her blue-collar roots. And it has nothing to do with feminism.
ReplyDeleteThey hate her because as a vice presidential candidate, she had to do what VP candidates have always had to do -- play the role of "attack dog" so that the guy at the top of the ticket can appear to be more "presidential.
Simply by calling Obama out on his radical connections and his socialist policy prescriptions, Sarah earned their hatred for the rest of her natural life.
Ironically, it was the McCain campaign (Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace, specifically) who directed Sarah to deliver the very lines in her stump speeches which so enraged the Left against her.
Obama was (and still is) their Prophet. Their anger is not that dissimilar from that we saw displayed by Muslims when cartoons which mocked Muhammed appeared in Europe. Instead of rioting in the streets, like the Muslims did, U.S. Leftists decided to destroy Sarah Palin with printers ink and computer keyboards.
- JP
Wisetrog - I'm pretty sure the leak here was deliberate by the Palin camp, and is part of their "push back" campaign against the DNC/MSM talking point that Sarah is toxic, no one wants her to campaign for them or wants her endorsement. I'm pretty sure the Kirk endorsement leak was deliberate too.
ReplyDeleteTo get Halperin to report it you have to give him some "juicy" quotes and inside info that will make it an interesting and appealing story for him and his editors. It looks like they fed him some stuff about what is in the book also.
All smart politicians do this. Its called feeding the beast. This doesn't mean Halperin won't do negative stories on Palin in the future, it just means that he will more likely be fair and present Palin's side of the story as well. It looks like they fed Cillizza the Kirk story as well.