Posted on 09/22/2015 6:52:58 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination failed to catch fire not because of the dramatic rise of Donald Trump but due to the fact that Walker "never understood how to apply his record at the state level to the federal level," Dick Morris tells Newsmax TV.
"What he needed to do was to talk about the insidious power of unions and [how they were] crippling education in this country and make education his big issue and use that to get women over the gender gap but he never did. He just ran as if this was a state race and he was just continuing his state campaign," Morris, a Newsmax TV political analyst and best-selling author of "Power Grab: Obama's Dangerous Plan for a One-Party Nation," told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner.
Walker abruptly ended his campaign Monday after plummeting in the polls following lackluster performances in the first two GOP debates.
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"The reason Walker dropped out, the reason Walker never caught on, is he had a fabulous record in Wisconsin but he never made the transition from a state campaign to a federal campaign. He never understood how to apply his record at the state level to the federal level.
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"The other thing is that he is just way too young-looking for the race. When I met him at a fundraiser in 2010 he greeted me at the door. I thought he was the kid that parked the cars."
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Another postmortem. I was going to dismiss this, considering the source, but Morris makes some valid points here that others have missed.
FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
This is true. SOMEBODY has to be the frontrunner. And somebody has to hold a 0.0% rating in the polls.
Ahhh good old Dick Morris, the one who confidently predicted the defeat of Obama in 2012.
Where’s he been all these years?
Now that 2016 is upon us, he’s bacccck!!
Walker was doomed from the start. The nominee wasn’t going to be someone without a college degree.
Walker’s a good man - and he’s young...
Haha!
He needed to stop at "What he needed to do was to talk about the insidious power of unions . . . ." and show how unions were a Dem money laundering operation. Now THAT would have gotten him 10% in the polls by itself. But he didn't. I don't think "education" is a winning issue. Everybody talks about it, but the fact is, people know we've spent zillions on education and like everything else in DC, nothing has happened. Even at the state level, very little happens.
THE DEMOCRATS are the problem, not unions (although they are slaves to the Dems), not education. But so far, only Trump and Cruz have been willing to run against Dem ideology, not just policy.
He needed to stop at "What he needed to do was to talk about the insidious power of unions . . . ." and show how unions were a Dem money laundering operation. Now THAT would have gotten him 10% in the polls by itself. But he didn't. I don't think "education" is a winning issue. Everybody talks about it, but the fact is, people know we've spent zillions on education and like everything else in DC, nothing has happened. Even at the state level, very little happens.
THE DEMOCRATS are the problem, not unions (although they are slaves to the Dems), not education. But so far, only Trump and Cruz have been willing to run against Dem ideology, not just policy.
Morris us right. It is all about who is resonating with the public and who is not. Trump wins that race over all the others so far.
I was wondering when he’d crawl out from under a rock somewhere and appear. He’s kinda like the groundhog of politics.
What is an education? Walker speaks, writes, thinks better than Trump with all his Ivy pedigree. I cringe at the obvious grammatical errors he makes all the time. I caught 2 in once sentence last night.
No comment.
I don’t think Walker looked to young—charisma challenged, but didn’t look too young.
Rubio looks AND sounds too young.
(Let alone his dreadful illegal immigration position and poor tax plan and insufferable Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood immigrant family message and delivery.)
As this statement is by Dick "Condi vs Hillary" Morris, I can only assume that the opposite is true.
That’s what’s known as a typo—not the poor speech of a grammatically challenged presidential candidate.
Sorry. My fingers get away from me on the keyboard sometimes. Two in ONE sentence last night. There were 3 of us watching at the time and all agreed that he sounded ignorant.
Ah - but isn't a typo basically just a written version of ungrammatical speech - both due to not paying attention or caring enough to be correct?
Or, I could just come to the point that Trump speaking the same way as around 80% of Americans isn't really going to be a problem for him, despite what the grammar Nazis might think.
You did it again!!
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