Posted on 11/21/2013 5:39:48 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
If conservative principles are the problem, then why are so many Republicans in office who campaigned on them? In the wake of the 2012 elections, Republicans are being warned once again that they need to compromise their principles to win at the ballot box. That the only way to win the center is to move to the center.
If this were true, Barack Obama would not be president today—and I would not be governor of Wisconsin.
When I was first elected as Milwaukee County Executive in 2002, pundits said it was a fluke—a Republican elected in a heavily Democratic district in a special election in the wake of a political scandal. To stay in the job, they said, I would have to move to the middle. Instead, I governed as a conservative reformer and won three consecutive elections as county executive, each one by bigger margins. The last one, in 2008, was especially noteworthy. Mr. Obama won Milwaukee County with 67.5% of the vote; I won with nearly 60%.
As governor of the state, my administration reformed collective bargaining in the public sector against enormous odds, turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a $760 million surplus, and cut taxes. In response to the union reform, opponents mounted a recall election in 2012. It was contentious—yet after enduring a hundred thousand or more protesters and tens of millions of dollars in negative ads, we won the recall by a bigger margin than in the gubernatorial election in 2010.
And here is where the results get intriguing: Exit polls showed that roughly one in six voters who cast their ballots for me in the June 2012 recall also planned to vote for Mr. Obama a few months later. These Obama-Walker voters constituted about 9% of the electorate.
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Scott Walker on how to win the left...
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
(Even if Ryan sayz it's good).
There is something wrong in the water of Wisc.
Walker and Obama are not signing and vetoing the same bills.
Obama makes a lot of philisophical statements that appeal to the voters. Obama made comments that supported Union busting.
He’s right. (In more ways than one!)
As Artie Johnson would say.. "Very Interesting."
But I think the point is that Walker makes is that there is a segment of the voters will be drawn by both lofty rhetoric as well as by solid results. Walker is the solid results part of the equation while Obama is the rhetoric part -- deceptive rhetoric at that.
They are not sophisticated voters, and they can be Bull Sh***d by a guy like Obama, but they can also see results when it smacks them in the face.
All is not lost is the bottom line. In the end, it is about results.
Therein lies the secret to beating the liberals. I would love Walker if only for this statement, brilliant, patriotic, inspiring
How do you actually win when you compromise your principles?
That is not winning.
Walker doesn’t ‘HAVE IT.’ Too effamite looking. If being conservative were the answer we’d have 8years of Dan Quayle in the W.H.
Did you read the article? Scott Walker argues the opposite — that he wins votes by NOT sacrificing his principles. That the voters on the left admire his firm stands and that they know exactly what he is going to do because he always does what he has promised.
Scott does NOT favor amnesty. He favors fixing the legal immigration program so that it works.
I’d be careful about drawing too many conclusions about the Walker recall victory. A lot of folks here voted for him in the recall only because the anti-Walker folks were so outrageous and over the top.
Heard him speak tonight in Philly.
Has a good message. Up on facts. Well spoken. Solid
AND a governor
I think Governor Walker would be great. God knows he’s fought for the right. Just afraid of what the trolls will do to him if he announces. They really are everywhere, poisoning any candidate we try to put forward.
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