Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice, shame on you.
Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin and 2016 presidential hopeful, has flipped yet again, only not publicly. At a private dinner in New Hampshire, Walker told a group of Republicans that all that stuff he's said regarding his disdain for "amnesty" was just hooey.
Reid J. Epstein has the scoop:
[H]e backed the idea of allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and to eventually become eligible for citizenship, a position at odds with his previous public statements on the matter.
Mr. Walker’s remarks, which were confirmed by three people present and haven’t been reported previously, vary from the call he has made in recent weeks for “no amnesty”—a phrase widely employed by people who believe immigrants who broke the law by entering the country without permission shouldn’t be awarded legal status or citizenship.
It's worth noting again here, that Walker made this statement in New Hampshire, not Iowa, where he might have been run out of the state. New Hampshire has an open primary system, which could attract voters from across the spectrum, especially given the virtual lack of a Democratic primary. New Hampshire also has a stronger track record of picking the GOP winners. Not so for Iowa, where the right wingers reign supreme in the state's caucus and have more recently
produced GOP losers.
Those are the political realities for the GOP—saying one thing to one audience and the exact opposite to another. But no one is proving quite so good at the flip-flop as Scott Walker, underscoring once again what some Wisconsinites told Iowans: "Scott Walker will never be honest with you."