Posted on 04/03/2015 1:45:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the new frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, while former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton easily maintains her lead among Democrats. And despite the personal email scandal, Clinton’s personal favorable number is still higher than the rest of the pack, according to the latest Fox News poll.
Walker tops the field for the Republican nomination with 15 percent among self-identified GOP primary/caucus voters. He’s followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush who receives 12 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 11 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee each at 10 percent.
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul earns nine percent support and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio gets eight percent. All others receive four percent or less.
Support for Walker is up six percentage points over the nine percent he received from self-identified Republicans two months ago (when Mitt Romney’s name is removed from the January poll for an apples-to-apples comparison).
Cruz became the first major 2016 hopeful to announce his candidacy officially (March 23). He also gained six points since January.
The top three picks for those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement are Carson (21 percent), Cruz (18 percent) and Walker (16 percent).......
For the first time, Bush ties Clinton at 45 percent each in a hypothetical matchup. Clinton has the advantage over the other Republicans tested, topping Walker and Cruz each by 48-42 percent, Rubio by 47-43 percent and Paul by 47-45 percent.
Independents prefer the GOP candidate over Clinton in each case -- by as much as 15 points (Paul) to as little as one point (Cruz)....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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April 1, 2015
9:00 interview: Walker: Media 'hype and hysteria' driving Indiana backlash
(other topics: immigration, economy, national security, Hillary)
Related:
Sen. Ted Cruz Surging in Polls Since Announcement (Many Nat’l & State Polls)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3275176/posts
HAHA, It's raining again bro.
I think Cins Wife is just as zealot on Walker as you are on Cruz.
Fun to watch and ping.
And I like you both....
No wonder I can’t get any good Bourbon anymore.
Ummm, Ted has already declared his candidacy, skipping that “exploratory” nonsense and has raised North of $7 million dollars in about 9 days, mostly from people like you and me, not fat cats. If Scott is going to go nuclear, he needs to leave the barracks, catch a ride to the flight line and get in the plane. Cruz is already at 20,000 feet.
Sure, blame me for all your problems.
Yet I only drink beer and red wine, no liqueur.
BTW : I am still dying to see Perry take on Cruz in a debate,
it will be one hell of an ass kicking of Ted,
Perry is an master at word and messaging ,
like he reads his opponents minds, it will be a slaughter.
Bartender, another Bourbon for me and my friend 2DV.
On the other hand, Scott has already proven he can thrive in enemy territory.
And Ted has proven an ability to thrive in RINO territory.
The focus needs to be on the actions of the current Congress.
I don’t want to see Cruz and Walker attack each other. There are plenty of other targets out there.
I would like to see both Walker and Cruz in the White House. Doesn’t really matter to me who gets there first. After 16 years, of them, we’ll only know about the Democrats from reading a history book.
I'm thinking about the general, not who may or may not have the advantage in the primaries. After the GOP-e spends its ad budget and the 'Rat cross-overs show up at the polls. If conservatives don't unite behind a candidate, it will be Jeb's to lose!
Remember the Buckley Rule: nominate the most conservative candidate who can win!
At this point, it's still too early to tell who that might be.
Agreed 100%.
But, at this early point in time, my money (literally) is on Cruz first. He is he most conservative that can win. Walker the close second. Jeb the distant 330 millionth.
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[39] While with the firm, Cruz worked on matters relating to the National Rifle Association, and helped prepare testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.[40] Cruz also served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.[41]
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[39]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devising strategy, and drafting pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.
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Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[7][43] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[10][27] The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a “leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction.”
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[7][35][44] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[44][46] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[44][47]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[10][35][44]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,[10][35] in which he wrote a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of all 50 states.[48] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[10][49]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row.[7][10][35][44] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[40][50] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention.[51] Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.[40][50]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
Not to mention that the rhetoric, however much we like it, has NOTHING to do with votes or $$ directly.
Lots of Texas conservatives wouldn't vote for Perry for dog-catcher at this point.
Lots of republicans might, but there is an obvious difference between conservatives and republicans in Texas.
Yep. My money and shoeleather is on Cruz.
Perry is a loser that needs to retire to his ranch, and not think about moving up.
Perry might make a good replacement for Cornyn... If someone had a shock collar for Perry to keep him conservative instead of republican.
/johnny
That, and his proven ability to learn from his mistakes is one reason I won't write off Walker for VP in the general.
/johnny
Amen! It's a free-fire zone out there for conservatives without attacking each other. This will be the best race I've seen since I've been on FR.
/johnny
I agree.
Advocate for a candidate - it’s the best way.
But it was a red state that sent him to the Senate. Who knows how he'll fare in a national election? It would be fantastic if he were nominated, but an utter disaster if he were to lose the general! We can't afford a Goldwater at this point in our country's history!
However, Walker, also a fine conservative, has withstood multiple ballot box challenges in a blue state, augmented by national 'Rat resources, despite having kicked key Democrat interests in the teeth.
We'll just have to see how it unfolds.
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