Rush Limbaugh rallies behind Scott Walker

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is what’s been missing from the Republican Party: a fighter.

“Scott Walker’s doing it, and he is running away, and these clowns on our side don’t even understand it yet,” Limbaugh said Monday on his radio program.


Limbaugh said that Walker, who is preparing for a possible 2016 White House run, might not be right on all of the issues, but the base is “gonna support him because he is fighting back. That’s what has been missing.”

Limbaugh, pointing to the Wisconsin governor’s ability to overcome union opposition and win tight races in a blue-leaning state, said that Walker “not only has drawn the blueprints for beating the left” but has “built the house.”

Limbaugh then attacked the Republican Party for failing to follow Walker’s lead.

“I would think that everybody at the RNC and the consultant class who wants to win would be taking notes and would be talking to him and his people about how they did it. Instead, they’re trying to ignore it,” Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh also took a swipe at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as an example of Republican establishment politicians who think the “big problem is Republican voters and not Democrats and their policies.”

Walker made his own indirect jab at Bush during a conference call with Iowans Monday night.

“If we’re gonna defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, if we’re taking on a name from the past, we can’t have a name from the past, we need a name from the future,” Walker said, according to Des Moines affiliate WHOtv.