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Posted on 01/29/2015 2:55:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
By the somewhat tamer standards of the Midwest, Scott Walker’s speech to the Iowa Freedom Summit last Saturday was a smorgasbord of red meat. In just 20 minutes, the Wisconsin governor shed the persona that brought him to the stage—the stern but affable accountant—and re-emerged as a conservative warrior who defeated the unions, defunded the abortionists, and beat back the liberals to win three statewide elections for governor.
His message, in short, was that he was effective, unwavering, and uncompromising. There was no need for outreach or a “big tent.” With the right conservative message, Republicans could win elections—and win them in blue states—on their own.
You could call this the Walker Way—victory through polarization. As my colleague Alec MacGillis described last year in the New Republic, it’s how the former county executive became governor, survived a recall attempt, and won re-election. And if Walker can capture the nomination, it’s how he might win the White House, too.
Before heading there however, we should step back and look where the GOP stands in national politics.
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If any candidate could run a rigid campaign of polarization—aimed at winning as many white voters as possible—it’s Walker. His language is already there. In his Iowa speech, he touted voter-identification laws and portrayed disadvantage as a pure product of personal failure. “In America the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us but … the ultimate outcome is up to each and every one of us individually.”
Walker, in other words, represents the other path: The chance to win without broadening your base or changing your priorities. Victory, but at the price of greater racial polarization. It’s a seductive vision—and an inherently divisive one.......
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
It's the playbook the Left always uses - accuse ["Squirrel!"] the opposition of employing tactics that in fact are you own.
The Left works overtime to suppress voices extolling the virtues of conservatism - that showcase its role in unlocking the chains of progressive ideology.
Article title.
“Divide and Conquer - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive message for winning the White House”
I’m convinced Hillary’s crowd fear Walker the most. White, middle-class, blue-collar Americans (Ohio, Philly burbs, etc.) are exactly to whom he’d appeal and THAT’S the group the GOP needs to win.
When you start reading articles like this you know the Progressives are scared.
I think you are right-Walker is the one they fear the most.
This is so predictable.I have already read reports about his “lack “of a college education as a detriment.
Walker/Cruz or the other way around in 2016!!
Yep. As always with the left; we have to watch what they do and not what they say.
I hope Walker does run. As of the moment of this writing he has my vote. With the election almost 1.5 years off one never knows for sure but I think Walker has the right stuff. If he ran with someone popular in the South I think they would win.
coming from a black writer so he’s certainly not biased.
Hillary and company fear Ted Cruz the most.
Ted Cruz is the only candidate capable of motivating the disaffected Conservative masses in blue and purple states that have been sitting out recent presidential elections. In 2016, watch Ted win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Also, Ted is a champion debater who has both the courage and the rhetorical skill to really get in Hillary’s face and stick it to both her and Obama.
Walker is one of the GOPe’s anti-Ted candidates. Walker voters delivered Wisconsin to Obama in 2012, and he would lose to Hillary (or Elizabeth Warren) in a landslide in 2016,
-PJ
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Same with the GOPe...
-——but at the price of greater racial polarization. -——
What a joke. There can be no greater racial polarization between the blacks and the rest of America than presently existsw. Barack Obama acting through his surrogates has carefully cultivated the segregation of the various black subcultures from White, Yellow,Red and Beige America. Obama has even persuaded some whites they are black
That is simply wrong, newbie. Hillary's media minions will destroy Ted, although he is my preferred candidate. Walker has the best chance.
Scott, Ted, Ran, and the rest of the only ones will have this done to them.
You are right in that Hillary’s minions will try to destroy Ted. But Ted has the intelligence, the rhetorical skill, and most importantly, the guts to fight back (unlike McCain and Romney).
That is why Ted will win in a landslide.
Its rich.
The very agents of divisiveness and polarization without a hint of chutzpah accuse Scott Walker of what they themselves practice as political sport.
They just can’t help themselves.
When did Salon start being against divide and conquer and racial divisiveness? That’s Obozo and the Democrats play book to a “t”. Where was the hand wringing from Salon when the Democrats run race baiting ads in Louisiana and other states? Oh wait, they were cheering them on from the sidelines.
Can’t wait for Sarah to declare and watch the libs go nuclear.
Pray America is waking
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