My candidate is Ted Cruz, and if you don't agree with his views and his life accomplishments that's your choice.
You still refuse to address the Walker ANCHOR BABY...
Posted on 09/21/2015 4:26:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When Gov. Scott Walker took the stage last Wednesday for the second Republican debate, it was amid popular opinion that the onetime poll leader needed a strong showing to regain his form.
Yet many in the media are questioning whether Walker delivered that type of performance, with commentators throughout the state and nation wondering if the governor was able to convey his ideas when he had the least speaking time of the 11 candidates.
Walker campaign manager Rick Wiley said his candidate looked strong in his brief sparring with current front-runner Donald Trump and that his message came across even when he wasn’t speaking.
"Gov. Walker wore his Harley boots tonight, and it showed ... He put Donald Trump in his place early on, and the billionaire never recovered," Wiley said in a statement following the debate. "Even when he wasn’t speaking, Walker’s ideas … dominated the discussion.”
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza disagreed, writing that Walker’s presence at the debate was almost nonexistent.
“If anyone needed a moment (or three) in this debate, it was the Wisconsin governor. He didn't get one,” Cillizza wrote immediately after the debate. “Despite a relatively prime stage position -- he was standing next to Jeb Bush in the center-right of the stage -- Walker was sort of a nonentity. He needed to make headlines; he didn't.”
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley noted that while Walker was more aggressive than in the first debate, other candidates were more adept at breaking in to make points.
“Walker wasn't as successful with this strategy as some others,” Marley wrote. “By contrast, former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina and others often refused to be cut off.”
Still, despite Walker’s polling numbers continuing to dwindle, Harry Enten, a political analyst for fivethirtyeight.com, said that he has time to make up ground before primary season hits.
“It’s September 2015. The Iowa caucus is scheduled for Feb. 1, 2016. Unless Walker is running out of money, it’s not that dire,” Enten said during a live blog of the debate.
Good man but didnt catch on. Wish him the best and thank him for his service.
By the way, back in my rock and roll days, our singer and guitarist from Mississippi used to go around asking girls (would be groupies, they hoped) "Have you met Big Tuna?"
Yes. This is pretty obvious.
I think Walker is gonna surprise people in Iowa by finishing top three there.
I think Trump will also surprise people in Iowa by not finishing top three.
>>govern
You are totally stuck on this concept.
My candidate is Ted Cruz, and if you don't agree with his views and his life accomplishments that's your choice.
You still refuse to address the Walker ANCHOR BABY...
Walker is very dangerous to the RATs. In order to defeat them you must defund them. He's done so effectively.
Good man. It's a shame.
I was one of those donors.
He has been a political low life even as far back as college and has historically surrounded himself with unprincipled hacks willing to do his dirty work so he doesn't get any "stuff" on himself.
Still, it's not yet time for the Trump ladies to redecorate the White House.
We're witnessing a breakup of traditional political coalitions. There's no logical reason for much of the RAT base to support the party, and the last 15 years has taught conservatives the same for the GOP. Remember a mere 15 years ago, when we thought removing Bill and preventing Algore would guarantee success? How sweet...how naive.
The candidate who presents a feasible plan to push back against the establishment, and possesses the ability to go around the media, can win. Trump is potentially that candidate.
“It’s September 2015. The Iowa caucus is scheduled for Feb. 1, 2016. Unless Walker is running out of money, it’s not that dire,” Enten said during a live blog of the debate.”
Somebody has scored some really good weed. :-)
Lol, I wish that was me, sounds like it was a good time!
Another analysis of Walker’s sudden decline in the polls.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Danggit. I like the guy, but it will be nice to have him back here in Wisconsin to continue to grind the Socialists’ faces into the gravel, LOL!
“Fantasy Administration Team.”
That’s a million-dollar idea right there, targeting us Political Geeks as they do for Fantasy Football Fans!
Grrrrr! I truly expected him to go further than this.
He won the Illinois straw poll Saturday. Don’t count him out just yet.
See post 57.
“However you want to see it, frame it, slice, dice and sell it, Trump is clearing the path for a Jeb Bush presidency.”
How so? I see Jebbie doing it to himself at the moment. I’m interested in understanding your perspective.
Your analysis misses two very key points: first if jebito is the nominee, he loses because millions of erstwhile gop voters stay home and whatever dreck the rats run wins by default. The gop can play whatever games it wishes to in the primaries. The nominee they pick still has to get enough votes to win the general.
Second, your analysis assumes that Trump loses. He is currently leading the polls by a significant margin. Other than wishful thinking, how do you explain that he will lose the nomination?
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