"RR" = WALKER!
"Beep-beep!"
Posted on 02/25/2015 5:57:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
While the members of the press are busily congratulating themselves for having “gotcha-ed” Scott Walker on a variety of matters utterly unrelated to his ability to serve as commander-in-chief, the governor of Wisconsin is quietly consolidating the support of Republican voters ahead of 2016.
According to a new Quinnipiac University survey of the Hawkeye State, Walker leads a pack of 12 prospective Republican candidates ahead of the 2016 caucuses with a full 25 percent. This is the second poll to show nearly a quarter of Iowa’s Republican caucus-goers backing Walker. Last week, the GOP firm Gravis Marketing found Walker netting 24 percent support in Iowa with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Jeb Bush both coming in second with 10 percent.
This Quinnipiac survey also found Paul performing well with the support 13 percent of Iowa’s likely Republican caucus-goers, but he is competing with a much broader field for second place in this survey. Following Paul, Dr. Ben Carson and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee both secure the support of 11 percent of caucus-goers. With 10 percent, Bush narrowly escapes joining the rest of the prospective Republican presidential candidates in single-digit territory.
The Quinnipiac survey found Walker with an impressive favorability rating at 57 percent. Just 7 percent of those surveyed do not have a favorable opinion of the governor. Only Carson and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have favorability ratings that compare to Walker’s. 74 percent of self-described tea partiers and 58 percent of evangelicals in Iowa have a favorable opinion of Walker. When it comes to the governor’s likability, there is virtually no difference between those who identify as conservative or somewhat conservative; 66 and 61 percent respectively have a high opinion of Walker.
“Walker gets 26 percent of men and 22 percent of women,” Quinnipiac’s release read. “Only 8 percent of caucus participants are less likely to vote for Walker because he does not have a college degree, while 82 percent say that makes no difference in their vote.”
In short, this survey finds Walker is force, and his potency as a candidate is growing. Several recent surveys of New Hampshire have shown that the unassuming Midwestern governor loses little of his appeal when his audience is a Northeastern one. In South Carolina, too, Walker’s nascent candidate is gaining steam, indicating that the governor can energize voters in the Republican Party’s geographic heartland as well.
Increasingly, Scott Walker’s influence is fraying nerves among those in the political commentary community, as though the galling and naked effort by the press to tar Walker as both bigoted and cowardly didn’t give that away. Some in the media who do not hide their liberal proclivities have determined to do away with nuance and are sounding the alarm bells. Take, for example, the New Yorker’s John Cassidy who recently called the sleepy-eyed, soft-spoken Wisconsinite “dangerous.”
“In a more just world, Walker’s indecent and craven antics would disqualify him from playing any further role in the Presidential race,” Cassidy wrote. This harsh verdict having been reached after Walker replied “I don’t know” to questions involving issues that have nothing to do whatsoever with governance. “But in the current political environment, his tactics, far from hurting him, may well bolster a candidacy that is already thriving.”
He is right about that, although Cassidy apparently hasn’t considered that excessive bouts of pique like this column are creating the very conditions he laments.
Cassidy went on to denounce Walker as an “odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster,” but he also warned that his unassuming origins and his status as self-made nouveau roturier will contrast sharply with Hillary Clinton’s inauthenticity and familiarity.
Several days ago, electoral politics analyst Brandon Finnigan observed that the nation’s progressive political establishment created the Scott Walker that today threatens to upend conventional political wisdom. “The attempt to boot Walker by Wisconsin progressives and labor activists accomplished a rare feat: absolute party unity,” Finnigan wrote. He observed that Walker’s three massive statewide victories created the crucible in which a formidable candidate was forged.
Now that Walker has emerged from his Badger State incubator fully capable of waging a competitive campaign against Hillary Clinton for the presidency, the press is going about consolidating the support of the rest of the country’s Republicans behind Walker. Hounding the governor with the aim of forcing him to denounce his fellow Republicans or seeking to compel him to genuflect at the altar of political civility by asking for his subjective thoughts on President Barack Obama’s level devotion as a Christian have fostered a sense of sympathy for Walker. Despite the fact that he declined to answer either question, the press went about decoding his responses, dramatically pantomiming personal slight over the results of their decryption efforts, and insisting that Walker had disqualified himself from the presidency. This absurd display is a familiar one to Republicans. The GOP can see the target the media has painted on Walker’s back, and nothing so energizes Republicans like the prospect of rewarding one of their own for offending the delicate coastal sensibilities of the political press.
If the progressive left made Scott Walker into a presidential candidate, the media is busily elevating him into the top tier. If the progressive community is not careful, they will destroy Scott Walker all the way into the Oval Office.
You always have great posts! Ping for later
“Cassidy went on to denounce Walker as an “odious politician whose ascension to the Presidency would be a disaster,”...........
Where the hell was he when odumbo was running? Bastard thinks Walker was the first to ever be an “odious politician”, guess he was absent at the time.
This is so very dead on! The best part is that Walker very well understands this and will keep up exactly what he has been doing to getting the media to continue to attack him. He is clearly modeling himself after Ronaldus Magnus and now pulling ahead. Go Scott, go!!!!!!!!
It would be a good idea if the bandwagoners would find out of Walker intends to abandon the rule of law and give away the country before they give him the opportunity to deliver a permanent majority to the Democrats.
No, that would be Obama.
I’m loving to see Scott getting the MSM attention. It can mean only one thing and that is that they’re afraid he poses a real threat to their dreams of an Ø third term. Scott Walker will eat Hillary’s lunch . . . and trust me that’s a lot of lunch!
This is why having a good, battle-tested candidate like Walker on the political field is a recipe for victory. Nobody has been through the wringer more than he. Walker deftly parries the “media’s” agenda-based questions and that just puts them into a three-foot hover. Walker’s success as a governor, coupled with a genuine, regular-guy appeal, will carry him far. The “media’s” attacks will only draw more voters his way.
Imagine, finally a man with some grit in the Oval Office!
Bears repeating!
Seriously! Your single issue obsessiveness is so tedious. Do you have anything interesting to say?
There are a number of Freepers doing all they can to push that 7% number higher.
Disgusting.
"RR" = WALKER!
"Beep-beep!"
“....... The point here is not the media’s double standard, which is egregious but unchangeable. The point is that this perception of Republicans has pervaded the public arena. Republicans’ fundamental burden is not explaining to the American people that Democrats are great people, but wrong on policy. Their great burden is overcoming the generalized perception that they are money-grubbing Snidely Whiplashes bent on strapping widows and orphans to the train tracks.
You cannot overcome that perception by ardently pleading that the very folks who call you racist, sexist, homophobic bigots are well-intentioned but incompetent. If someone calls you a racist, and you respond by stating that they are a reasonable human being with policy differences, you grant their premise: A reasonable person has called you a racist, which means it is reasonable to call you racist. You lose.
And Republicans have been losing, at least in large part, because they grant the fundamental premise of the left: Democrats are well-meaning, even when they are wrong, and Republicans have evil intentions, even when they are right. That is a recipe for disaster in a country where intentions matter more than actions.”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/shapiro-why-rudy-and-walker-were-right
Sure, do you? Other than RAH RAH RAH
That single issue you want to hide from is THE DEFINING ISSUE OF THE COUNTRY.
I disagree with the statement.
It energizes the base. It energizes conservatives.
The “GOP” and “Republicans”? Not so much.
They seek to appease the press and be loved by them.
Scott Walker is up by a mile in Iowa — but don’t start comparing him to Hillary Clinton just yet
Who despises Walker more? The left? Or the McCain, Graham, McConnell wing of Repubs?
The fact that Walker’s father is a Pastor takes a fair portion of the evangelical steam out of the appeal of Cornpone T. Huckabee. That saddens the Establishment because it notably reduces the primary votes he is charged with splintering off.
In act, I bet Cornpone T. Huckabee is on a very short leash. If he proves worthless in his assignment of splitting the evangelical vote away from the true conservatives, the Establishment will cut off his funding fast and his campaign will quietly fold up their tent and crawl back to Fox looking for a new contract.
He is not pro illegal amnesty
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