Posted on 02/01/2015 12:31:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Walker, who is deep into preparations for an all-but-certain bid for the Oval Office, called for a “transfer of power” from Washington, D.C. to the states. He called the city “68 square miles surrounded by reality,” with six of the 10 richest counties in America, according to the median income. “We need to transfer power, power from our nation’s capital here in Washington back to the cities and states in this country, where the people, where the hardworking people in this country can actually hold their government accountable,” he said...."
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Out of Jeb, Romney and Walker, only Walker have acted like a Conservative while in office
I like Scott Walker but where is he going to line up the money to beat Jebbie?
I have no use for a President Jeb but I assure you it was better for Florida to have him as governor than some Democrap.
All Democrap governors get into disgusting stuff
If voters like what they see they'll send Walker money. But I agree, the Bush money machine is formidable.
<>“We need to transfer power, power from our nation’s capital here in Washington back to the cities and states in this country, where the people, where the hardworking people in this country can actually hold their government accountable,” he said<>
That’s the closest I’ve heard a governor call for an Article V state amendment convention.
I like Scott Walker but where is he going to line up the money to beat Jebbie?
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I’ve never understood why a political run is always being compared to the money raised and spent.
I know there is radio and TV time to pay for, as well as boots on the ground and travel expenses.
However, once you’ve received a robo call, heard a radio ad or viewed a TV ad for candidate X, you don’t need to experience it again.
The money spent on political elections is a total WASTE!
Hands up, don’t shoot! Oh, wrong meme. # Black Lives Matter. No? Well what’s today’s apologist meme, I didn’t get the memo..
Whoops! Wrong thread!
Regarding the Presidential race, may I be the first to say that Bush should make like a tree and leaf.
Eric Cantor’s money machine was formidable and we all know what that did for him. David Brat’s total campaign cost him less than one of Cantor’s headphones steak dinners.
Learn it, live it and use it. Conservatism works every time it is tried.
Headphones? Stupid tablet word pickers. The word keyed in was Megadonors.
I was scratchin my head a little....
Well, anyway, here’s the article
A rising Republican star carves out a role as the beltway outsider
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker came to the nation’s capital Friday to attack Washington’s culture, dismiss its wisdom and call for removing its power, offering new clarity on his strategic approach for earning the chance to live downtown by winning the 2016 presidential election.
“Washington is kind of this top-down, government knows best,” Walker said to an audience of about a half-dozen supporters and more than 50 members of the media who gathered just a block from the White House. “It’s a tired, old approach that hasn’t worked in the past and I don’t think will work in the future. What I see in the states and for the people outside of Washington is a craving for something new, something fresh.”
Walker, who is deep into preparations for an all-but-certain bid for the Oval Office, called for a “transfer of power” from Washington, D.C. to the states. He called the city “68 square miles surrounded by reality,” with six of the 10 richest counties in America, according to the median income. “We need to transfer power, power from our nation’s capital here in Washington back to the cities and states in this country, where the people, where the hardworking people in this country can actually hold their government accountable,” he said.
“That’s what Our American Revival is really about: Transferring that power from Washington back to the people,” he said, referencing the name of his new 527 organization that is laying the groundwork for his presidential bid.
It was not the first time that Walker positioned himself as a Washington outsider, a strategy that he hopes will give him an advantage over other prospective candidates like Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who work weekdays in the city. But it was his most muscular expression to date of his role, ready to take on and slay the sacred cows of the beltway power networks. Walker’s tour comes on the heels of a well-received speech in Iowa before Republican activists last weekend, and just days after announcing his new 527 organization.
He also took time to criticize President Obama’s State of the Union speech. “That sounded like a person who wants to grow the economy here in Washington,” he said. “I think the rest of America wants to grow the economy in cities and towns all across this great nation.” He also quoted Ronald Reagan’s admonition that The federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government,”
His true guides, he continued, were the nation’s founding fathers, whom he said he always looked up to as a child. “I was a little geeky,” he said. “I actually thought of our founders almost as super heroes. Bigger than life.
Walker was introduced by Republican financier Fred Malek, a former Green Beret and aide to Presidents Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, who effusively praised the presidential contender. “I can’t think of anybody I’d rather be in that foxhole with our in that firefight than Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker,” he said, calling him a “terrific leader.”
Asked by Malek about tackling the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Walker remained vague. “To me it’s not a matter of if there’s another attempted threat,” he said. “I’d do everything in my power to make sure families in this country would sleep safe.” He added that he would “take the threat to them.”
He is going to line up the money from WE the people the way it is supposed to be!!!!!!!!
The VERY LONG knives have been out for a very long time after this guy he has succeeded amazingly and in a deep blue state!!!!!! I think he is just a simple talker with common sense!!!!!!
<>“We need to transfer power, power from our nation’s capital here in Washington back to the cities and states in this country, where the people, where the hardworking people in this country can actually hold their government accountable,” he said<>
That’s the closest I’ve heard a governor call for an Article V state amendment convention.
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Walker would govern according to ‘state rights’ principles, but those rights would still need to be formalized in Constitutional Amendments to reign in the incessant, unrelenting gaggle of ‘big government’ adherents.
Gov Scott Walker is the right man, at the right time for this nation.
He is a proven conservative leader. He has been tested by fire, with the liberals throwing everything they have at him.
That also means there are no skeletons in his closet. (of course, that will not stop liberals from trying to fabricate some skeletons)
Gov Scott Walker balanced Wisconsin’s budget, beat back the public sector unions and did all this with the support of the people.
If you want to beat the Bush money, conservatives will have to coalesce around a candidate quickly. Our primary votes have beaten big money before (Cantor).
But, if we sit around and allow a handful to pick apart our candidates on made-up facts, we will end up with another McCain, Romney or Jeb.
Social media, every day, make him go viral.
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