Posted on 04/30/2015 2:41:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Powerline audio LINK [runs 9:00]
Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) addressed the Freedom Club’s annual dinner in Minnesota. Walker made time between photos and the dinner for a Power Line interview. icon
From Power Line’s John Hinderacker: How was his speech? It was terrific. I have wondered whether Walker would be dynamic enough to succeed on the national stage. His low-key style has served him well in Wisconsin, but would he be able to inspire national Republicans? I needn’t have worried. Walker spoke extemporaneously, without notes (or, needless to say, teleprompter), and from the heart. He got a thunderous reception from the club’s members and guests.
Walker is a solid conservative with a superb record in office, achieved against the most vicious opposition directed against any state-level figure in our lifetimes. He recounted, but did not dwell on, the many death threats and incidents of harassment that he and his family have suffered from Democrats. The audience gasped audibly when Walker quoted the Democrat who threatened to gut his wife like a deer. But Walker has not only survived the Democrats’ mean-spirited assaults, he has defeated them, over and over.
During our conversation we talked about his achievements, and how they will translate to the national scene, and about immigration, Islamic extremism, and more. Given the controversy during recent days about Walker’s changed views on immigration, I think that part of the interview is particularly newsworthy.
At article/interview link [sidebar]
Ricochet GOP Presidential Poll:
Who is your first choice for the GOP Nominee?
John Bolton 2%
Jeb Bush 2%
Ben Carson 0%
Chris Christie 1%
Ted Cruz 14%
Carly Fiorina 3%
Lindsey Graham 0%
Mike Huckabee 0%
Bobby Jindal 4%
Rand Paul 4%
Mike Pence 0%
Rick Perry 8%
Marco Rubio 21%
Rick Santorum 0%
Scott Walker 41%
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Who is your second choice for GOP Nominee?
John Bolton 1%
Jeb Bush 3%
Ben Carson 2%
Chris Christie 0%
Ted Cruz 7%
Carly Fiorina 9%
Lindsey Graham 0%
Mike Huckabee 0%
Bobby Jindal 7%
Rand Paul 6%
Mike Pence 0%
Rick Perry 10%
Marco Rubio 24%
Rick Santorum 0%
Scott Walker 28%
How would you describe the Ricochet demographic?
Millennials?
Libertarian?
??
I think the 1st and 2nd choice 0% candidates is really telling. It would be very nice if they take a hint and stay at home as a smaller field would be helpful and a better use of everyone’s time and money.
Who is giving guys like crispy creme, huckleberry, santorum, linda graham and rick perry advice on their chance of winning?
I know, that is a rhetorical and obvious question. The paid whores, aka, political consultants.
Imagine what that will do for Bush if he takes that?
He can catch-up in the delegate number race and then turn on the money spigot.
Splitting our votes ahead of Florida gives Bush an edge.
From that link: "...With the quiet reintroduction of the proportionality requirement came a number of subtle changes to Rule 16(c)(2, 3).2 First, the RNC compressed the proportionality window by two weeks. Instead of the allocation in primaries and caucuses having to be proportional in all of March, the 2016 rules condensed that to just the first two weeks of March. That could mean different outcomes coming out of the proportionality period dependent upon how many states actually crowd into the window. If a smaller window yields fewer contests, then the difference is likely to be negligible. If, on the other hand, a month's worth of 2012 contests clusters in that two week opening in 2016, the effect may be larger. Of course, under the 2012 rules with the broad definition of proportionality, this distinction -- a two week or month-long proportionality window -- is largely irrelevant."
States with open primaries will see Democrats cross over to vote for Bush.
I read an article the other day about how the base has zeroed in on their candidate choices unusually early and that we are more intently focused on tactics and the primary particulars - it pointed out that if you add up the numbers in almost every poll, over 90% have selected a candidate - that “undecided” is in the noise.
We KNOW that tactics will give us a chance against GOP-e Bush.
And it is serving him well on the ntl stage.
What we don't need now is another showboating politician, basking in adulation, turning on the "personality" whenever he's got an audience.
Walker is appealing b/c he appears to be just himself----a guy who happens to be running for president.
He's not a backslapper w/ personality-plus, waltzing on the political stage, showing off his expertise.
Yes. Walker has that mid-Western personality and temperament - very non-narcissistic.
Will the electorate go for “star” quality or for substance?
Hopefully the adults will turn out to vote.
Narcissistic is the key word----
Contrast Walker w/ the sooiopath now in the WH ....
.....and the she-sociopath... running under her own self-serving "narcissistic immunity" (gag)....
And the media is ready to do pieces on the “important” issues (don’t talk about Clinton Cash) like balding.
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I kinda like the fact that Walker is saying---"take me as I am---w/ a bald spot."
But for others.....he can easily disguise the bald spot. Doesnt even need a rug.
Frank Sinatra had the very same problem....
In his book, Sinatra's valet details how he covered it up when Frank had to appear in public.
“.....The question is whether Bush’s civility will turn his presidential campaign into a suicide mission. After six years of the Obama presidency, many Republicans — not only the ones on talk radio — want a fighter, not a lover. Polls by the Pew Research Center have found that most conservatives want their leaders to stand by the party’s principles, not to compromise with the other side. (Liberals break the opposite way, in favor of compromise.)
There’s a path for Bush to win the GOP nomination, beginning in New Hampshire, whose contrary voters often embrace civility. It helps that independents can vote in the GOP primary there.
The path requires Bush to win solid support from a silent majority of non-tea-party Republicans, who make up a little more than half of the party. It probably requires several of the more conservative candidates — Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz — to knock each other out. (That’s partly how Mitt Romney won the nomination in 2012, although he faced less formidable challengers.) And it probably requires one more ingredient: a flash or two of unwonted pugnacity from the candidate.”....
If you look at the numbers, Rick Perry is in the top 4 as both a first choice and as a 2nd choice.
The one that really surprises me is Jeb Bush.
No way I want a Bush dynasty, but I didn’t think folks were thinking along the same line as me. Apparently, they are.
“.....Finally, Walker made an under-the-radar move that is worthy of notice. His presidential SuperPAC hired Shirley & Banister, one of the most respected P.R. firms in the conservative movement, to handle its messaging and strategy. The P.R. firm was founded by Craig Shirley, the best-selling biographer of Ronald Reagan. I know this firm well, because I retained their services myself the past few months. Their main interest is promoting causes/people that are advancing movement conservatism. So they’re not going to sign on with Walker in order to promote milquetoast (Commandment #9)....”
http://stevedeace.com/news/winner-of-the-week-scott-walker/
Do you think Perry has a ghost of a chance? I'm not against him, I just don't think he has a prayer.
He has a ghost of a chance. A terrible debate experience for everyone else and one in which he shines. It’s not likely, of course, but what Perry has is a huge, wealthy state. He has executive experience with actual governing for some time in a state that’s almost its own nation.
But what’s surprising is that he’s as high up as he is.
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