Scott Walker’s turn against legal immigration shakes up 2016

Free News Pos ^ | April 21, 2015 | Benjy Sarlin

[Travis McGee]

[ohioman]

Who is your top candidate?

[Paine in the Neck]

This is the ticket to the White House:

[Paine in the Neck]

"..........Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)—the most pro-amnesty Republican there is, someone who worked for years with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on immigration—is leading a charge against Walker’s new position.".....

McCain is as right about immigration as he and Feingold were about free speech.

[MortMan]

I find it interesting how the media wants to believe that a candidate’s change with respect to a certain issue during the campaign is always a genuine change of heart, despite the history of such changes, where the candidate usually changes their words but not their actions.

[Mr. Jeeves]

“With no constructive place to go, they’re going to end up in a destructive place,” Noorani said. “They’re heading further right than Mitt Romney.”

I like a bit of comedy with my morning coffee. :)

[conservativejoy]

Your post makes a lot of sense. I, too, have beeb asking for specifics on what Walker would do as President. What he has done as governor is not a template because of exactly what you described. Washington has a completely different heirarchy and mode of operation.

I like Cruz because he has told us what he intends to do and I trust him to do it. So far, no one has told me what policies Walker will advance as President.

[ConservingFreedom]

H-1B ping. Let me know if you want to be added to this list (or removed).

[dowcaet]

Yes, add me to the list.

[caww]

.....”What he has done as governor is not a template because of exactly what you described. Washington has a completely different heirarchy and mode of operation”....

Well that’s just it and when they get there time cannot be wasted for any to figure out who and what is set to trip them up...things will have to be “done” asap.....there is no learning curve this time around.

That’s another reason why I’m comfortable with Cruz...he already knows what to expect, from whom, and where the traps are set... and has had his own inside people functioning. So he’ll simply pick up the ball and go with it...and I don’t expect him to let any grass grow under his feet...after he’s been briefed on what he needs to know.

[conservativejoy]

I agree. Cruz is motivated and it doesn’t hurt that he’s Brilliant!

[Lakeshark]

Too bad Reagan was so ineffective when he came to Washington.

if he had just known more he might have gotten something done........

/s

[caww]

....”He knows government and how it works”...

He does not know the difference between running his state and the corridors of Washington politics, which as I said is a different beast entirely.

Will Walkers “colleagues” be going to Washington with him...or are those there who are NOW in his court operating in Washington and setting things up for him?

You see I know that Cruz has that and one of the huge ‘distinctions’ between the two.....Walker hasn’t made this known one way or another....and further.... ‘what’ has he actually stood up to ‘IN’ Washington that would assure us he has the backbone to go against that flow if he gets there????

These are perfectly reasonable questions that he’s not addressed to my knowledge....

[caww]

Reagan had connections both in Washington and across the nation as we know...before and after he arrived there....and certainly the country wasn’t even close to being in the dire straits it is here and also on the International stage. There was time for him to get comfortable with the environment of WAshington...which he was already familiar with.

[jwalsh07]

McCain is anti American worker. His day is over
.

[caww]

He knows the Constitution...he knows ‘how’ those in Washington are opposing it and the legal means they’re manipulating....so Cruz also being a Lawyer is more than helpful.....it gives him another leg others do not have and why he can and does raise the issues of the Constitution that he has and does.

[Lakeshark]

Just so you know, I prefer Cruz.

I just find the argument being made, that he won’t be able to handle Washington to be pretty weak. It was made against Reagan as well and was wrong.

[caww]

Reagan came into Washington at ‘a different time’...and certainly Washington wasn’t packed with Muslims and various other anti-Americans to the degree we have now in our government operating against us.

For me we need a President who has been inside that beast and watched it operate these past 8 years...Cruz would know where the weak points are and where to strike against it without the adjustment time an outsider is going to need.

Time is significant because the world has despots and leaders who are currently reading themselves and acting knowing in mind a change in the Presidency is forthcoming.

I can truly say that even with 9/11 happening... I have not sensed as much danger to our country as I have with this Administration and those who have been purposely brought into it over these past 8 years and operating against this country.

So the time element is significant. And someone who is already familiar with the happenings “inside” Washington.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

when asked if he worries Walker’s position makes the GOP look “anti-immigrant.” “I do,” McCain said:

Next question: Does anyone care what McCain thinks?

[Lakeshark]

I prefer Cruz, not because he has an edge in experience, or that he knows Washington better, but because he has the best ability to present the vision of a full conservatism as THE great path to revive America. He's persuasive, and gives it from the heart, much like Reagan.

He also handles the media, and media gotchas better than anyone since Reagan.

That's why I prefer him, I don't think either of them have an edge in knowing how to handle Washington. But then again, as I said earlier, neither did Reagan. One thing, we both prefer the same guy.