Posted on 02/05/2015 3:03:38 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Look up his quotes on securing the border....he’s opposed to a border fence/wall. He says it’s unnecessary.
I’m not impressed.
“You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that, to me, I don’t think you need any of that if you have a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.” - Walker
To the author: “You keep using the word ‘hero’ . . . .”
Seems you’ve “heard” a lot - please gather and post some sources so we can evaluate what you’ve “heard.”
Can you supply a link to when that was said - the full context?
Thanks!
He’s not perfect, but he’s a damn site better than most of them running.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Scott_Walker.htm#Immigration
Walker and Jindal?
Walker and Cruz are my top choices.We have a deep bench...
Rubio and Cruz, for that matter, need executive experience. Let them serve as governors first and see how they do. No more Senators for President.
In general, a governor is better than a senator for executive office. Walker is fine. Pick the right VP candidate and you’ve got a winning ticket.
Sound advice for any potential candidate. That said, I don't know if there IS a "perfect" conservative candidate, certainly not one on the radar screen.
Given that, I am certainly willing to warm up to a Walker candidacy, especially with the right running mate. He has shown that he is not afraid of a public relations' fight, like so many eGOP are. Even better, he's made some sweeping changes while in office, not content to simply "move the chairs around in the governor's office." This is exactly what this country will need in 2016. We have a long way to go to undo all the damage the Obama administration will have done.
If he truly believes this, he's not what conservatives should be looking for because he hasn't been paying attention to what the Republican Party has become.
The Republican Party needs a top-down remaking in conservative principle or it needs to splinter.
What do you think Walker meant by that statement?
As a matter of fact, try to find where he said it.
"....But for Walker, it’s still Morning in America. At the Freedom Summit, he actually asserted that the United States is “one of the few places left in the world where it doesn’t matter what class you were born into, it doesn’t matter what your parents did for a living. In America, the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us.” As even National Review has noted, that just ain’t so.
After the 2012 election, many pundits deemed it inevitable that Congressional Republicans would respond to Romney’s defeat by passing immigration reform. They didn’t. Now pundits are lavishing attention on those GOP presidential candidates who are trying to update their party’s image and message. But Scott Walker is betting that conservative activists aren’t interesting in adapting to Obama’s America. And if last weekend’s Freedom Summit is any guide, he may be right."
I conclude that the author wishes to distract us from a real conservative.
This is the link
“It’s all is about the 11 million [undocumented immigrants],” Walker said. “You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don’t know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.”
Walker added: “If people want to come here and work hard in this country, I don’t care if you come from Mexico or Canada or Ireland or Germany or South Africa or anywhere else. I want them
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