Scott Walker's SuperPac calls itself "UnintimidatedPAC,"an organization dedicated to funneling money from hidden corporate donors for the purpose of elevating the Koch Brothers' Wisconsin toady to the highest office in the land. The PAC is run by Keith Gilkes, Walker's top strategist for his gubernatorial runs, and Stephan Thompson, Walker's 2014 campaign manager.
This week they brought on board former National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director, Brad Dayspring. Dayspring is a piece of work, to put it mildly. In addition to reported anger issues, the New Jersey native and former top aide to Eric Cantor has had his run-ins with his own party and others, coming under fire for:
* Referring in 2013 to a female Senate candidate from Kentucky [Alison Grimes] as "an empty dress" who "babbles incoherently." Democrats labeled the remark "degrading and offensive."
* Interrupting a "60 Minutes" interview with Cantor when when Lesley Stahl repeatedly questioned Cantor about the impact of President Ronald Reagan’s tax policy -- a move that prompted widespread criticism.
* Supposedly leaking information to an Associated Press reporter after 16 American troops were killed when the Chinook helicopter they were flying in was shot down over Fallujah in 2003, according to the book "Hubris" by Michael Isikoff and David Corn.
The book reported that President George W. Bush's campaign then fired Dayspring as its media coordinator for northeastern states for violating a "basic ground rule" barring campaign staffers from talking to the press.
* Following a Twitter account featuring soft-core pictures from "sexy ladies' Twitter accts" in 2011. Dayspring initially defending doing so, saying he had a friend who was a model who was featured on the site. But he then quit following the feed shortly after a story on the matter appeared online.
OK, (allegedly) leaking classified info in between
peeking at Twitter porn and insulting women may be
de rigueur for Republican operatives (after all, they have to entertain themselves), but Dayspring has come under fire a lot more than the
Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel even suggests. This guy has come under repeated and rather salacious attacks on
Redstate for his tactics against other Republicans in primary races. Here's what
Brent Bozell says about Dayspring, for God's sake:
“Gov. Walker should have known better than to hire Brad Dayspring, the worst GOP anti-conservative hit man in Washington. Brad Dayspring has a despicable record using character assassination to besmirch the reputations of conservative candidates and public policy leaders. He’s paid to do the ugly work of the Washington establishment. He is the personification of everything that’s wrong in politics today.
“Gov. Walker, people are policy. If you want conservatives’ support, you need to get rid of this cretin immediately.”
But Dayspring is an equal-opportunity bomb thrower. He has also
suggested Harry Reid might have Alzheimer's, which I guess is funny to a 34 year old punk who hasn't lived long enough to know what Alzheimer's is. He
attacked Tom Pryor's religious faith in a way that even Tom Cotton denounced.
And then there's this:
NRSC Communications Director Brad Dayspring yesterday used his Twitter account to direct people to a GOP Web page that included the following absurdly-offensive assertion about the World Trade Center’s collapse on September 11, 2001:
“There’s some evidence that were charges planted in the buildings that brought them down.”
And lastly (because I'm just too tired from Googling the guy)
here he is, claiming that Bush was right about WMD's in Iraq.
We get the picture. This is what Americans have to look forward to from Scott Walker's Presidential campaign. Nothing substantive, nothing about the interests or everyday concerns of the American people, but a whole lot of smear, innuendo and lies.
Thanks in advance, "Brad."