Walker gets crowd going with stemwinder

Milwaukee County Exec Scott Walker told Republican delegates this morning that Wisconsin has a governor who does not share their values and promised to rein in state spending, protect the sanctity of life, back the right to bear arms and put the needs of people in front of special interest.

Walker charged Dem Gov. Jim Doyle is trying to turn the clock back on Wisconsin's progress on tort reform, education and numerous other issues to the detriment of the state and laid the blame for the state's deteriorating job climate at his feet.

He also said Doyle was more concerned with creating a domestic partner registry for same-sex couples than updating the state's sex offender registry, giving tuition breaks to people whose families "aren't even in the country legally" and expanding maternity leave for welfare recipients to six months while Wisconsin families struggle to afford six weeks off without pay.

Walker said a top Doyle adviser voted to allow late-term abortions at a state facility and that the Dem had taken $30,000 from a Madison abortionist and his wife. All the while, he has stood in the way of common sense voter reforms and allowing citizens to legally carry concealed weapons in public.

"We have a governor who does not share our values," Walker declared.

Walker has focused much of his early campaign on Doyle's fiscal policies and again took him to task before GOP delegates over the governor's proposed budget and policies that he says are driving jobs out of the state.

He promised a more fiscal approach to government spending and bringing back a Wisconsin that he says Doyle has harmed.

"I believe in Wisconsin," Walker declared to the crowd often as he wound them into a frenzy.

Listen to Walker's speech.

Listen to Walker's media availability after his speech.

-- By JR Ross