Posted on 02/27/2015 12:08:09 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Scott Walker as a political performer is pretty uninspiring. He doesn't have George Bush's pretzel-mouthed Texas charm or Sarah Palin's hockey Mom magnetism. He can't fall back on an ethnic American dream parable like the one Marco Rubio can run on. He's just a doughy, finger-pointing white guy of the type the Republican Party has been churning out to fill state assembly seats or run in back-bench congressional districts seemingly since the beginning of time. He's exactly the kind of politician the modern Democratic Party is set up to beat...."
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
@mtaibbi LOL, Walker HAS been kicking lib ass for 4 years now..IN A BLUE STATE. dummy
Next: Walker will be accused of belonging to a fraternity that raped a co-ed at the U of VA.
Scott Walker had no campaign against teachers. He was against union bosses forcibly taking money from teachers and ripping them off.
Unions are not popular anymore, not even in places like Michigan. Even members are sick of union bosses who take their money and give them nothing in return. Michigan is now a right to work state and the voters are happy about it.
What was the date of that? I still get chills thinking about it...
It's still a long way to November 2016, but I think the liberals are jumping the shark a little early in defaming Walker, considering how he has kicked their asses in Wisconsin, three times now.
THREE Times.
Ok, maybe, but I’m sure if we went back, we would find all the times Rolling Stone has called Bush “charming,” and Palin “magnetic.” I mean, a “journalist” wouldn’t make that up that up as a pretext for distinguishing his target this time, would he?
You are right and I also have reservations about the sudden and apparently imminent coronation of Scott Walker. I am still lukewarm on Walker. I thought his speech at CPAC was fine and then he got thrown a few softball questions after. The gaffe comparing ISIS to union protesters was not stellar. I am concerned that Scott Walker cannot win a national election. We will see how he does in the GOP debates. I am on a wait and see mode.
Rolling Stones pulls out the Long Knives.
Taibbi is an idiot! So targeting Walker brings him back in the limelight he does not deserve to have.
He’s a plagiarist, too!
http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/did-matt-taibbi-lift-material-from-city-pages/Article?oid=4372875
Of course he was.
Unions are not popular anymore, not even in places like Michigan. Even members are sick of union bosses who take their money and give them nothing in return. Michigan is now a right to work state and the voters are happy about it.
In most places I'd agree with you. But they still exert influence in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and especially Michigan. It could make the difference in a close election year.
Far left magazine is trying to tell Republicans which candidates would be bad for them. Yeah we should really listen to that
If Scott was a gift to the left these liars wouldn’t be saying a word.
Rolling stone hates us. And they’ve never met the democrat who wasn’t ‘better’.
So their ‘concern’ is a lie - the story that they’re thrilled with the gift is a lie and they’re a lie.
Eff ‘em.
The subject matter of the publications ranged from narrow employment issues (“How Big Are General Electric Profits – Are They Too Big?” “Why the company can expect union officials to ‘demand’ a strike from them”) to broader economic concerns (“Let’s Learn from Britain”--which concerned the failures of socialism and a government-run medical profession--and “What is Communism? What is Capitalism? What is the Difference to You?”). The folly of many government programs and the negative consequences of burdensome taxation were frequent topics. The book clubs of employees and their spouses spent thirteen weeks discussing Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt or How You Really Earn Your Living by Lewis Haney and other conservative offerings.
In time, Lemuel Boulware and GE CEO Ralph Cordiner mounted a national grass roots campaign, recruiting major corporate allies, creating schools where GE employees and others could learn the fundamental political skills to win elections, developing shareholder lists for political mailings, and turning GE workers into “communicators” and “mass communicators” (Boulware’s words) who could spread the message of free persons and free markets to a decisive number of local voters. In the course of this Ronald Reagan was taken out of the plants and put on what he called “the mashed potato circuit” of civic forums largely in the south and smaller states, often towns where GE dominated the economy, where he would be most effective. In due course, the “great communicator” was born. In today’s parlance, most of these states turned from blue to red......"
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