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Wisc. Governor Walker Hints He's Running For POTUS
TruthRevolt.org ^ | Jan. 7, 2015 | Jeff Dunetz

Posted on 01/07/2015 9:48:51 AM PST by Rennes Templar

As a guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday evening, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker strongly suggested that he will be a candidate for president in 2016, "I feel that there’s a reason God put me in a spot to do the things that we’ve done and take on the kind of challenges we’ve done."

Governor Walker is considered by some a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He is a Midwestern governor in a blue state who has taken on the unions and thanks to a recall election has won three elections in four years, so it was logical for Hewitt to ask Walker his intentions:

Hewitt: Now let me ask you the key question for the national audience, Governor. I want to talk about Wisconsin, but people want to know. Have you ruled out a run in 2016?

Walker: Oh, absolutely not. I mean, it’s one of those where I very much believe that our next president should be a governor. And I think you look at the mess in Washington, and you realize we need leaders from outside of our nation’s capital, and we need people who have been successful. And I think with what I’ve had to go through in the last four years, both politically, but also in terms of the policies, certainly I feel that there’s a reason God put me in a spot to do the things that we’ve done and take on the kind of challenges we’ve done. And it’s certainly something I’m going to take seriously, and really look at it closely over the next month or two.

Hewitt: When do you think you have to decide by, Governor Walker?

Walker: I think any candidate that’s going to be serious, by mid-year in 2015, has to be in the race. I mean, I just was sworn in yesterday. Next week, I’m going to give my state of the state. By the beginning of next month, I’ll have given my budget address, introduce our next two year budget, which will continue lowering property taxes, expanding school choice, lowering the size of government, reducing the number of state employees, lowering out debt, doing all the things that you’d expect a good common sense conservative to do. And once we’ve done that, I think it puts me in a perfect position to see if this is the right calling.

When a potential candidate says "there's a reason God put me in the spot...to take on the kind of challenges we've done" it's a loud hint that he will be running. On Sunday evening another potential GOP candidate Mike Huckabee brought up God to hint at his own run, saying, "But I also realize that God hasn't put me on earth just to have a good time."


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To: Menthops

Who cares? Walker, and all GOPers that run will follow the leftwing playbook of slamming Conservatives. (as he did with the so-called gov shutdown)

Conservatives will deny the GOP the Presidency in 2016.


41 posted on 01/07/2015 11:30:53 AM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: Carry_Okie

I am anxious to hear more from Walker on immigration because there is room for a reasonable compromise on this issue. The crap coming out of DC isn’t even close to it, but there is room to really put an enforcement and employee verification reform in place in exchange for an aggressive work visa program open to illegals. The goal is to stop the problem and deal with the existing people here in a viable way. The non-enforcement and blind eye approach now is not sustainable and will destroy us, as will anything providing citizenship and opening the flood gates


42 posted on 01/07/2015 11:35:42 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: magglepuss

——I agree, we need to make sure the press and D’s like our candidate first before we support them.——

The press and dems will hate our candidate no matter who they are...

Our candidate need to be about to connect with the mushy middle voters...

SP is radioactive...Though no fault of her own ....


43 posted on 01/07/2015 11:36:20 AM PST by Popman
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To: Rennes Templar

Any minute now the challenges to his ideological purity will start.


44 posted on 01/07/2015 11:39:48 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Actually, they started before I responded!


45 posted on 01/07/2015 11:43:09 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Sybeck1

Obama was a senator, Reagan was a governor. Your move


46 posted on 01/07/2015 11:43:42 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: JimRed

Fidelity to ideas is preferable to loyalty to a person.


47 posted on 01/07/2015 11:46:19 AM PST by Ray76 (/s)
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To: ilgipper
There is an easy, quick, and cheap way to get illegals out of the country that would also be an instant jobs program (albeit temporary): A bounty system, with stiff penalties for false arrest and imprisonment. The illegals would self-deport so fast there would be traffic jams at the borders.

Bounties work, and should be used against terrorists as well, as equivalent to a Constitutional letter of marque (which is how the Second Amendment militia was supposed to work). If bounties could extirpate the passenger pigeon, they can cleanse the nation of illegals, and fast.

48 posted on 01/07/2015 11:46:28 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by government regulation.)
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To: Rennes Templar

he’s got our votes....


49 posted on 01/07/2015 11:46:52 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: muir_redwoods
Obama was a senator, Reagan was a governor. Your move

Could we get a warrior for a change?

50 posted on 01/07/2015 11:47:07 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
<"Any minute now the challenges to his ideological purity will start.">

Already have....what everyone here wants is Ted Cruz because dammit, he says everything they want to hear. One big problem with an ideological purist who has never held an executive branch political position is he's likely unelectable.

I like Cruz just fine, but how will he make things happen among a highly politically charged congress that he's already alienated?

It's easy to be a minority party back bencher who complains about things and never has to take a difficult vote.....just ask Barack Obama. The difference is all Democrats rally to their candidate, while Republicans like to nitpick the shit out of them.

51 posted on 01/07/2015 11:47:23 AM PST by irish guard
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To: Ray76
Fidelity to ideas is preferable to loyalty to a person.

Agreed. But too many of us are willing to jettison a candidate with whom we agree 90%, and unless it's a question of abortion or the Constitution, that's not helpful.

52 posted on 01/07/2015 11:51:08 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: muir_redwoods

Governors know how to make things happen...


53 posted on 01/07/2015 11:55:18 AM PST by GOPJ (“I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” Charb Charbonnier-Publisher Charlie Hebdo.)
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To: Popman

She would be great head of Dept. of energy or any other agency. Wouldn’t it make heads explode if she was President Walker’s chief of staff?


54 posted on 01/07/2015 11:59:07 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: irish guard
I have a gut feeling that FR is going to turn into a primary campaign site for a single candidate.

You can already begin to see the smears going towards any potential Republican candidate not named "Cruz."

Not that I've got anything against the guy, other than I don't believe he's our best bet.

55 posted on 01/07/2015 12:15:09 PM PST by TontoKowalski
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To: TontoKowalski

I have a gut feeling that FR is going to turn into a primary campaign site for a single candidate.

The real unfortunate part is....that we only HAVE one good candidate. If your not disgusted with what happened yesterday, then I don’t know what to say.


56 posted on 01/07/2015 12:22:08 PM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: Made In The USA

Will be status quo on immigration with him...


57 posted on 01/07/2015 12:27:21 PM PST by magna carta
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To: Rusty0604
She would be great head of Dept. of energy or any other agency. Wouldn’t it make heads explode if she was President Walker’s chief of staff?

I'd love to see Sarah Palin as COS. Other than the Supreme Court, this is probably the most powerful un-elected position available. Palin could do a lot of good in this position.

58 posted on 01/07/2015 12:27:53 PM PST by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: Ray76
So a candidate who is “electable” and pro-amnesty, wants “single-payer” health care, and wants federal control of all police, is who we should back? That these issues are “purity tests”?

Those are Obama’s positions. Yours too?

In post #18, you wondered what Walker's position on amnesty might be. By post #40, you'd come up with the above.

And managed to toss in a childish inference that I embrace Obama.

You're a pretty quick study.

By the way, the likelihood of over the top rhetoric is one reason I question Cruz's chances.

59 posted on 01/07/2015 12:36:27 PM PST by TontoKowalski
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To: magglepuss
Agree that I am disgusted by what happened yesterday, which is one reason I cited for liking Walker.

He doesn't just play along to keep the peace. He put his convictions into actions, and they yielded results.

Honest question, because I sincerely don't know the answer. Did Cruz support McConnell as Majority Leader?

60 posted on 01/07/2015 12:39:02 PM PST by TontoKowalski
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