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Scott Walker and the art of winning
The Week ^ | Jan 30, 2015 | Matt K. Lewis

Posted on 01/31/2015 10:17:36 PM PST by entropy12

What we really crave is a conservative winner who doesn't cave. And Scott Walker is very arguably that guy.

He won in 2010. He picked a fight with Big Labor and won. He survived a recall. And he won again in 2014 — by almost the same margin as he did in 2010. That's three wins in four years for a man who governed as a conservative reformer in a state that the Republican presidential nominee hasn't carried since 1984.

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TOPICS: Iowa; Wisconsin; Campaign News
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; districtofcolumbia; election2016; gop; iowa; scott; scottwalker; walker; wisconsin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So ALL those news sources are lying about him?

Yes, because they know he is a threat to the liberal stranglehold on DC. They know how to divide us.

You are smarter than this....falling for lies from the liberal media.

Walker does not support a path to citizenship.

Stop posting liberal LIES

41 posted on 02/01/2015 3:17:01 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So ALL those news sources are lying about him?

Do you think it's possible that the press is trying to define him this way? Does the press ever pick who they want and don't want so that they can use their power to shape who ends up elected?

Check into it yourself and avoid having others tell you how they want it to be - if that's what you're doing - i dunno if you are or not.

42 posted on 02/01/2015 3:54:45 AM PST by Principled (Government Slowdown using the budget process!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do you have sources besides the WaPost and Mini-Me?


43 posted on 02/01/2015 4:02:19 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

I don’t believe the lack of a degree has to be an issue. The prevailing wisdom in 1984 was that Reagan’s age would be an issue.


44 posted on 02/01/2015 4:15:49 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: Yardstick
I would not diminish or pooh pooh accounts of what he's said, walked back, amended, etc. on immigration thus far.

They are clear lynch pins stuck in the map of politics for me. Indicators of political expediency, personal feelings or other motives, if you will.

That said, I fully agree with your last sentence. We DO need a CLEAR statement from Walker on his position on illegal aliens, amnesty, pathways and all the other double-speak one could utter. We need the statement as soon as possible, not when he's been crowned the GOP nominee and has to flop over to the GOPe and Coc sentiment on the matter.

I for one, won't be voting for him for anything unless I get a resounding NO from him on any form of Amnesty or Pathway because I feel that this issue holds the future of the sovereignty of this country.

45 posted on 02/01/2015 4:23:04 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, SAM, your observation regarding the metro areas of the state controlling the election outcomes is common in states without apportioned electoral votes (like my own Ohio).
If the electoral votes were cast in favor of the candidate winning the popular vote in the DISTRICT (with the remaining two statewide, based on the popular vote total in state), we would NOT have this second term of Zero and 0bamunists mucking up the country and its proud heritage.


46 posted on 02/01/2015 4:32:10 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: gogeo

I don’t believe the lack of a degree has to be an issue.

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I agree, but for other reasons. There is a shift in attitude taking place in the country. It may not be great at present, but it is there. People are beginning to realize with this economy that a highfalutin college degree is no guarantee of a job or how intelligent one is. I believe trade schools will soon become the new path in education. There is so much BS being taught in colleges today, including the socialist agenda, that it has become a total waste of valuable productive years, saying nothing about the huge expense incurred to get the worthless indoctrination.


47 posted on 02/01/2015 4:45:43 AM PST by iontheball
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To: iontheball

The last four years has been a parade of academics ‘running’ things. Any reasonably competent politician can hit that pitch into orbit.


48 posted on 02/01/2015 4:53:44 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s settled then - Valerie Jarrett will be the next POTUS...


49 posted on 02/01/2015 4:57:50 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: entropy12

We do ourselves and our nation a favor by advancing the candidacy of this most able of possible presidents to pull America out of the Obamaswamp.


50 posted on 02/01/2015 5:22:41 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: entropy12

Scott Walker appears more and more to resemble Ronald Reagan in crucial ways.If he can do it with Reagan’s wit and incisiveness we win.


51 posted on 02/01/2015 5:23:09 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: lee martell

I would hope that Scott Walder would not sigh on to be JB’s VP. Neither would make it to Washington. Walker as candidate would win. Bush can only lose. Conservatives won’t take the VP bait again. To vote for Bush because of VP Walker we would have to hope the dice comes up box cars and the President has an early heart attack. That is a weak read on which to hang a huge weight.


52 posted on 02/01/2015 5:28:11 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Yardstick

Walker/Cruz. We can only dream. Cruz/Walker.


53 posted on 02/01/2015 5:30:01 AM PST by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: entropy12

Another big plus: if Walker had any skeletons, the Dems would have found them by now.


54 posted on 02/01/2015 5:32:39 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Is not having a degree worse or better than supposedly having one but sealing all records of such?

BTW, neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs completed college.


55 posted on 02/01/2015 7:56:32 AM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Mozilla

Thanks.


56 posted on 02/01/2015 8:27:12 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: entropy12

Cruz is #1 on my wish and admire list. But I am not convinced he can win in general. Until then, I am moving walker to #1 and Cruz to #2 on my list.


My thoughts exactly.


57 posted on 02/01/2015 8:29:26 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Another big plus: if Walker had any skeletons, the Dems would have found them by now.


Not the case at all. They would hit him with their lies and propaganda during the campaign. Around Sept.-Oct., 2016.


58 posted on 02/01/2015 8:33:14 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Yardstick

College degrees make people stupid and arrogant.


59 posted on 02/01/2015 9:24:44 AM PST by GilGil
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To: Secret Agent Man

Thanks Secret-serviceman: What you say about Wisconsin is almost the exact same for Minnesota. Outside the Twin Cities and Duluth, it is a nearly universal sea of red on the maps.

What we are seeing is a microcosm of the nation. The blue on US map is almost universally restricted to the east and west coasts, and only the large cities will show up blue on the other states’ maps.


60 posted on 02/01/2015 10:33:37 AM PST by Gumdrop
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