Walker will be a big supporter of green energy, since he is solar powered.
Posted on 07/14/2015 5:23:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Scott Walker is now officially in the race for the presidency, and he has the best story to tell in the Republican primary field. In the video he released today, he says he will face fighters who haven’t won battles and political winners who haven’t scored policy victories — while he is a fighter who has won his battles. This is a fair depiction. He is the most accomplished Republican governor in the country, with a startling record of political achievement in Wisconsin. You probably know his story already, but if you don’t, I commend to you the book he wrote with Marc Thiessen, Unintimidated, which is a rare politician’s book in that it actually tells a gripping and dramatic story and does it well.
A Republican with a history of winning elections in a politically divided state and a Democratic-majority city, Walker came into the governorship of Wisconsin to find his state and its municipalities and towns in the grip of a budgetary crisis that was going to force classic bad-policy layoffs that favored union workers with long tenures over everybody else. He literally faced down violent mobs and occupiers, changed the rules, then faced a recall election and a reelection campaign — both of which he won. And he and the Republican legislators in Wisconsin have continued to reform the state’s way of doing business.
Having seen him in action as a politician and heard him speak at large gatherings and in small rooms, I think the key to Walker is his imperturbability. He is a man with an astoundingly level temperament. It is clearly very difficult if not impossible to rile him, a quality central to his ability to ride out controversies and attacks and assaults that would have torn other politicians to pieces.
The flipside of that is that he cannot really get too excited, and he can’t quite rally others to his cause through the power of his presence or his words. His announcement speech showed energy and fluency — but while it was not dispassionate, it was in no way emotive.
He can be good-natured, and in an understated way he projects an air of terrific self-confidence, but Walker is in neither an inspirational nor an aspirational candidate. His opening slogan is “Reform, Growth, Safety,” which gets the job done but doesn’t exactly sing. But you got a sense of what a smart and savvy politician he is when he got himself into the news stories on the pending Iran deal by insisting he would cancel it on Day One of his presidency.
In this regard, he is basically the polar opposite of Marco Rubio, his fellow top-tier candidate. Rubio is all inspiration and aspiration. Perhaps the best extemporaneous political speaker of our time, Rubio can leave you with your jaw on the floor. He is pure star power. Walker wants his offhanded manner to win you over in due time.
This is the problem in this race for Jeb Bush, who has raised vastly more money than either and is leading at the moment — he doesn’t get you in the kishkes the way Rubio does and he doesn’t have a contemporary record the way Walker does. But the reason these three have to be considered in a manner different from others in the race is that they show aspects of command — Walker does; Rubio inspires; Jeb simply is—that seem to elude most of the others, accomplished though they may be.
Walker is a tough politician who wears his toughness lightly. That’s what he has to sell.
Well he went through that long speech yesterday without reaching for a water bottle once.
Milwaukee became a sanctuary city in June 2012 under Scott Walker’s governorship. How has he dealt with this?
I played golf the other day with a guy from Wisconsin. He had a lot of really good things to say about Walker. But here’s the deal. When I think of all the garbage Obammy has executive ordered.... from the iran deal, obammycare, neighborhood integration, EPA, keystone blocking, immigration, and on and on..... It would take a person a year or two just to “unwind” everything. And it would take a person with such an ego that he/she doesn’t care what other people say. Someone who is willing to go against everyone in their party, or the other party. Someone who is convinced he/she is always right and will stand on that. Someone completely sold on self. It would take a provocateur. Is Walker really this guy?
Well it ain't Trump regardless of your "The Last Lion" preamble.
Trump is probably the one guy that would come in and executive order things the way he wants them to be and unwind some of the obammy stuff. Problem is I’m not sure he would exec order everything the way a conservative wants it done.
Walker will be a big supporter of green energy, since he is solar powered.
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Um, sorry (GOPe) John, but no....your man-crush on Rubio completely negates your overall points about....anything.
Comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of Walker, Rubio, & Bush.
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“Milwaukee became a sanctuary city in June 2012 under Scott Walker’s governorship. How has he dealt with this?”
I didn’t know this. On the whole, his campaign speech was good, but I noticed he left out the whole issue of amnesty and border security.
Not saying he had a role in Milwaukee’s status nor does he have a role on city council, but I want to know what, if anything, he has done about it.
And I can see the headlines now
"COLLEGE DROPOUT WALKER TOO ILLITERATE TO READ FROM TELEPROMPTER"
conservativejoy - you can quote that one...I know you want to.
I have some strong reservations about Walker but I'll give him credit. He's the one candidate who was willing to put his political career on the line, step into the ring against the toughest foes on the left, take their strongest shots and climb back out victorious. You can't take that away from him. Or as Lincoln said about Ulysses S. Grant - "I can't spare this general...he fights."
And Common Core, which still is very much entrenched in the education system in Wisconsin, despite Walker’s promise to repeal it.
Milwaukee, Madison, and Racine are Sanctuary Cities. Dane Count is a Sanctuary County.
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