Walker can turn out a big crowd.
Posted on 07/17/2015 3:50:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
July 17, 2015:
“......Among Republican primary voters, Trump captures 18 percent. He’s closely followed by Walker at 15 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 14 percent. No one else reaches double-digits...
Walker’s up six points since he officially kicked off his campaign. That bump gets him back to the support he was receiving earlier this year. In March, he was also at 15 percent.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul gets eight percent, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio receives seven percent, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson comes in at six percent, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee get four percent a piece....”
I love this line:
“We love [Texas Sen.] Ted Cruz, but sometimes he just talks too much, he’s just out there to be heard,” said Borkowski. “Scott Walker, when he says something, he does it.”
It’s true.
[Clad in his Harley boots, jeans and a button down shirt...]
If he REALLY wants to relate to South Carolina voters he should have bounded on stage with a straw in his mouth, a beer in one hand and a Bible in the other.
If you have to pander, Scott, do it right.
[”You start in Iowa and lock up conservatives, because if you don’t do that, none of the rest matters,” said one longtime Walker adviser, who requested anonymity to discuss campaign strategy. “It’s much easier to move from being a conservative to being a middle-of-the-road moderate later on.”]
It is good that the most visible candidates aside from Bush, are Trump, Cruz, and Walker. I wish Christy would come up in the polls to compete with Bush. For all those establishmentarians out there none seems to be in a position to drain from Bush. Even Rubio looks less and less viable as time passes.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-election/scott-walker-presidential-campaign-20150712
....”You start in Iowa and lock up conservatives, because if you don’t do that, none of the rest matters,” said one longtime Walker adviser, who requested anonymity to discuss campaign strategy. “It’s much easier to move from being a conservative to being a middle-of-the-road moderate later on.”
The adviser added: “In Iowa, you see the beginnings of that. He’s capturing that conservative wing first and foremost, and then moving from Iowa to the other states and bringing other voters into the fold.”
The rationale for Walker’s candidacy has always been his unique ability to bridge the Republican divide, appealing to both the conservative and moderate wings of the party while also presenting himself as the type of wholesome, aw-shucks everyman who appeals across party lines.
It worked in Wisconsin. But everything is more difficult, and more scrutinized, on the national stage. Can Scott Walker continue to have it both ways? We’re about to find out.”
“...Relatability is an increasingly rare commodity for politicians. But Walker, pacing the stage without notes Monday, with his light-blue shirt buttoned down and his sleeves rolled up, has proven in Wisconsin that he has it in spades.
“He’s a Midwestern, all-American boy. And that’s what we need right now—not somebody from the East Coast or the West Coast,” said Debi Gillingham, a 60-year-old retired mail carrier from nearby Franklin. “We need someone who understands us.”
“He’s honest. We can trust him. He’s a common man,” said Glenda Rose, a 52-year-old Waukesha native who owns a cleaning business.
Shawn Wagner, Rose’s lifelong friend and fellow Waukesha native, interjected: “He’s one of us.”
These are the voters Walker has wooed in Wisconsin over the past two decades—first as a state representative, then as Milwaukee County executive, and finally as governor. And they are similar—demographically and ideologically—to the voters he’ll be courting next door in Iowa.
Reagan didn't do that and he didn't get 100% of the Electoral College. He should have listened to Rove. Damn!
These people have the most brilliant example to follow that they could have but insist on shading their eyes or looking away. They are totally absorbed in petty tactics and unable to see the whole picture or it blinds them and they cringe. They concentrate on getting votes in this unreachable group and that one and miss out on the great mass of disaffected voters who want relief from the oppressive State and viscerally understand what needs to be done even if they don't artiulate it well. Rove is the model for these guys, not Reagan. Reagan won BIG. TWICE. Rove is a consistent loser. Most of these fellows would rather get all the "right" buttons pushed than actually win.
You are a lying POS who is trying to smear a solid conservative.
Everything Walker has done as governor has been absolutely conservative....more conservative than when Ronald Reagan was governor.
But if you are a lying POS, you do not care about FACTS, you twist stories and quotes to smear conservatives.
He's dropped considerably in my estimation.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2015/07/gov-scott-walker-%E2%80%A2-one-on-one-%E2%80%A2-hannity.html
You must be biased. Walker was great on Hannity!
Correct, I am biased toward preserving and protecting the Constitution. Walker is clearly not, preferring instead the path of expediency that leads necessarily to tyranny.
325 people come out to see Walker. 9,000 come out to see Trump. I’d say Walker’s got quite a hill to climb. :-)
How so?
“Businessman Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential field, but a newcomer to the race is hot on his trail.
Trump took 18 percent support in a national Fox News poll released Thursday evening. Right behind him is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker with 15 percent.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped to third place, garnering 14 percent support.
In the previous edition of the Fox News poll, released June 15, Bush led the field with 15 percent, followed by Trump at 11 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 10 percent, and Walker and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tied at 9 percent.
Paul checked in at fourth place in the new survey at 8 percent, followed by Sen. Marco Rubio at 7 percent and Carson at 6 percent.
Following them are Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 4 percent, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 3 percent.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Sen. Rick Santorum are tied for tenth at 2 percent. .....”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/248292-trump-leads-another-2016-poll
Walker can turn out a big crowd.
Also, he does better on the "Who would cause liberals the bigger hissy fit?" test.
Are you just playing dumb or do you not realize that the PATRIOT Act approach to national security is opposite to the underlying principles of the Second Amendment?
This too:
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....Pleasant. That’s even how Walker’s bitterest political foes describe him.
In the heat of the state’s showdown with its union four years ago, Rep. Peter Barca, the Wisconsin State Assembly’s top Democrat, publicly denounced the governor at protests across the state. “You know, Governor Walker, you have defiled our heritage,” Barca said at one rally. “You have disregarded our values.”
But Walker, who declined to be interviewed for this article, never took it personally. “I’d give a speech in front of 50,000 protesters saying,‘Walker’s got to go,’“ Barca says, “and you’d see him the next day and you’d think I just sent him a coffeecake or something.”
Barca is part of a small group of leaders who meet regularly with Walker during the legislative session,but Barca said those gatherings are almost never satisfying. “Generally, when you meet with him on the major issues,you don’t feel like it’s a dialogue,”he says. “We get along just fine. He is sort of chitchatty. He exchanges pleasantries,makes some jokes. But you just feel like that on the big issues he is just there to tell you, ‘Here’s what I am going to do.’”
The roots of his immovability may lie in what he calls being a “P.K.”-a preacher’s kid....”
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