First, I hope this doesn't mean that I'm moving further to the right for agreeing with a Republican, and second, appreciating him for being a thoughtful moderate conservative.
With the attention a primary candidate like Patrick O'Brien will get, with his moderate positions and criticisms of Scott Walker's management approach as governor, Walker's numbers could further erode.
I don't know much about him, but I like what I've heard so far (no, I'm not voting Republican). Check out his comments to WTDY's Zack Stein, and the coverage below:
Chippewa Herald: A new candidate is looking to challenge Gov. Scott Walker as a Republican — a move that would force a GOP primary. Patrick O’Brien, 49, of New Glarus, said Wednesday that he plans to challenge Walker in a Republican primary. O’Brien, a house husband whose wife works for the state, said he voted for Walker in the last gubernatorial primary because he thought Walker was a moderate Republican.
O’Brien said he is an independent who has voted for Republicans in the past but accused Walker of being extreme, inflexible and not straightforward with voters.
“I thought he was running as a brown bag Republican,” O’Brien said. “What we were getting was a brown shirt Republican.”
O’Brien said he would work to promote and help grow the dairy industry in Wisconsin. “I want farmers to be able to join the state health insurance program at the cost to the state,” he said.
O’Brien’s entry to the race may not further delay a recall election because a Democratic primary is expected anyway. Two Democrats, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, are challenging Walker, and Secretary of State Doug La Follette also may get in the race.
People show more integrity when they look at human beings as human beings, judge each man/woman NOT for beauty, color, faction, or the car they drive, but on their behavior and heart.
ReplyDeleteIf a Republican honestly expresses values you resonate with and shows integrity then by all means. Vote your conscience.
It is the conscience-less behavior and the LACK OF seeing the other point of view, the scorched earth, lying, back-stabbing, team-playing mentality that is killing our nation.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with valuing a Republican human being or honest contribution to the democratic process. The rhetoric of today is wrong.
A 2 party system is like a marriage. Each "side" has their own point of view, their own experiences and goal. How could it be otherwise? Who else can you be other than yourself?
To be aware of the other, and receptive to them as important is not 'weakness". THAT IS THE SICK VIEW OF TODAY. In reality, it is when one of those "marriage" partners adopts a winner-takes-all total dominance approach that there is NOTHING but annihilation and destruction. Labor SHOULD come to the table speaking of Labor's view. Management SHOULD share their own unique perspective. Both groups will have knowledge of issues and factors the other side SIMPLY CAN NOT KNOW.
It is only when the two sides work together that real progress is made. Real efficiency, REAL innovation, real problem-solving, not sadomasochistic domination like we have now. This is just nihilism, this system of today. It is backtracking, not advancing the human race.
Everybody, and I mean everybody, loses in a scorched-earth divorce. That is what we have now in politics.
Please do not apologize for having impulses that imply the existence of frontal lobe brain activity.
That will be an interesting primary!
ReplyDeleteHow many betrayed and pissed off "conservatives" will get out and vote for this guy?
Plenty of independents, and independent Republicans are disappointed with the lack of a real jobs plan from Walker, more than anything else. Walker promised 250,000 jobs in four years, yet in more than a year has yet to propose a single initiative that concerns agriculture, or the dairy industry. Revitalizing our most vital industry is the only way to achieve broad based economic growth in Wisconsin. We need to elect a governor who understands Wisconsin's economy starts with agriculture. Patrick O'Brien
ReplyDeletePlenty of independents, and independent Republicans are disappointed with the lack of a real jobs plan from Walker, more than anything else. Walker promised 250,000 jobs in four years, yet in more than a year has yet to propose a single initiative that concerns agriculture, or the dairy industry. Revitalizing our most vital industry is the only way to achieve broad based economic growth in Wisconsin. We need to elect a governor who understands Wisconsin's economy starts with agriculture. Patrick O'Brien
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