> “ Walker and Cruz are more compatible as they are both small government conservatives, and Trump is not running as a small government candidate.”
Preaching ‘smaller government’ is pushing your buttons.
A lot of conservatives including me like to dream of smaller government. But then there’s reality.
I know the path BACK to smaller government and it’s not through Washington DC. That place has built too much legislative and constitutional structure in the past 100 years to wave a wand at over 4, 8 , 12 years and Presto! we lave smaller limited government.
In other words, your and my dream for smaller government is largely a fantasy. It will take a generation or more of believing Americans to get back to the small government model of the 19th century.
Pragmaticism is needed. Pragmaticism is what Trump is all about. Walker cut union siphoning off of state goverment but he hasn’t cut spending. As Trump has said, he has a $2 billion shortfall and he will have to borrow to meet the budget. His fight with the unions and the GAB made him a folk here or rockstar in Wisconsin. But as I said he’s no hero, he’s a damsel in distress that brings out chivalrous responses among voters who want to be seen as heroes to their damsel.
Cruz? All talk, no action. He has never cut any spending anywhere and he makes enemies where he doesn’t need to. Cruz will not be president and if we dream he would be, then we’d have a tough time dreaming he could ever get anything done.
Ronald Reagan couldn’t get limited or smaller government in 8 years. Cruz is no Reagan, not even close.
Exactly what is ‘smaller’ government.?
I could go rattle off things like abolish the IRS, abolish the EPA, Abolish the Departments of Education and Energy, defund PP and so on.
Well that’s all well and good but then there’s reality. One needs to have Congress behind it and that’s where the fight is, that’s where the negotiating and horse trading come in. And that’s where Trump is the master.
But you like to vote for the ‘rallying cry’, the things that push your buttons. When you become aware of that, you will be the wiser.
I will vote for the outsider that actually has the skills to make things better and not the one that thinks they can fool me with their words and rallying cries.
Repeating Trump's lie. There is NOT a $2 billion shortfall in Wisconsin.. Wisconsin is running at a small surplus. No matter how many times Trump and you mimicking shrieking Trumpanzees repeat this lie from Democrat talking points WILL NOT make it true.
Walker inherited a huge debt and deficit from his Democrat predecessor. Walker fixed both and he did so while lowering taxes, balancing the state budget AND defeating the unions and a corrupt state election ethics agency (GAB).
You are partially right about DC not being the place to achieve smaller government. But a so-called Trump "pragmatism" and the authoritarian national approach he truly intends will actually make the federal government even LARGER.
What is needed is a devolution of power back to the states, back to counties, cities and smaller units of government. The more localized a decision is produced, the more accountable that decision, government or individual politician is to individual voters and taxpayers. That is the conservative solution and the one espoused by Ted Cruz - the only conservative in the race.