Joe Walsh (photo: Wikipedia)
By Rich Compton -
With his radio show ratings presumably in the toilet, political chameleon Joe Walsh is once again changing colors and reinventing himself – this time as a possible anti-Trump Presidential Candidate.
For those of you unfamiliar with Joe Walsh and his rather transient and muddled professional history, let me provide a brief chronicle as I understand it.
Having begun his activist-only “career” as a paid, pro-abortion liberal (yes, pro-abortion), Joe later became a self-proclaimed conservative-for-hire, which he parlayed into a donor-funded campaign for Congress in the Republican Wave election year of 2010. Following his one-term, grandiloquent, and rather undistinguished stint in the U.S. House of Representatives, Walsh reinvented himself yet again — this time as the pied piper of the Illinois Tea Party movement, which he quickly and somewhat cultishly renamed the “Walsh Army.”
Promoted by a handful of well-meaning but misguided acolytes, Joe managed to land a political sugar daddy who he manipulated into paying for his radio show where his antics, outrage and language made him, and the conservative movement of Illinois, a laughingstock amongst both political parties and the general populace in the Land of Lincoln.
A rather curious and discontinuous career, you might think. But one that seems to have two common threads: 1) A ravenous promotion of Joe Walsh over principle, Party, ideology or movement; and 2) The determined financial enrichment of Joe Walsh.
Which brings us back to his supposed run for President. We who have navigated Joe's many adaptations are confident this latest "stunt" is not about Trump or the President’s policies, pronouncements or personality. It’s about Joe Walsh, and about Joe making money – through campaign donations, television appearances, or most likely the positioning of himself as the beneficiary of wealthy interests – from either the right or left.
So, for those readers outside Illinois, or those unfamiliar with Mr. Walsh, take my word for it. Death, taxes, and Joe Walsh promoting himself are three things you can bank on. And make no mistake, one of Illinois' best political carnival barkers is smiling all the way to his bank where he'll cash in on whoever is confused by his chameleon-like camouflage and fails to recognize his real agenda – Joe Walsh.
