Scott Walker's shifting position on the Common Core education standards

Journal Sentinel Politifact Wisconsin ^ | January 16th, 2015 at 3:35 p.m. | Tom Kertscher

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[sickoflibs]

[SoConPubbie]

Eh, he’s a politician, shifting his positions on a continual basis.

He surely isn’t Braveheart, and is failing the Leadership mantel by running away from the Gay Marriage fight in Wisconsin, Common Core, RFS, etc.

[sickoflibs]

“Boo-hoo-hoo, that McConnell wont do what I say.
He makes me so mad. It's all hos fault that I never accomplished anything”

LOL

[SoConPubbie]

So if Scott Walker is such the conservative leader, why is he taking the Crony Capitalist position on RFS?

[sickoflibs]

Call me when some other alternative shows up that has shown themselves to beat Dems over and over, right now he is the only one.

BTW : Losing every fight with Dems and blaming others doesn't impress me

[citizen]

Here we go....the trashing of another Republican is well underway.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Whenever a candidate starts to look like he has a chance, the lizard people from outer space have him killed off and replaced by one of their kind transformed to look like a human.

I for one welcome our lizard people overlords.

[Jim from C-Town]

I like Scott Walker. He gets things done.

I like Ted Cruz: He is simply right about everything.

We have to figure out a way that they can both serve back to back 8 year terms and end up with Cruz on the Supreme Court after whatever term he serves!

[SoConPubbie]

Call me when Scott Walker quits wavering on key policy positions and settles on a set he is going to stick with.

Anybody can get things done, especially when he runs away from the tough battles.

It takes a Leader, like Cruz, to stand pat, communicate the benefits of sticking with the conservative position on a tough issue instead of caving which Scott has shown a predilection to lately.

[napscoordinator]

Great news. So glad to see he wants to get rid of Common Core. The problem is those poor kids who sat through a few years of Common Core already and don’t know the traditional way. This is going to be a big mess even more then it is already.

[napscoordinator]

Anybody can get things done, especially when he runs away from the tough battles.

Ok. Now your going crazy. Anybody can get things done........name one thing these Senators (Rubio, Paul, Cruz) who are running have done. Name one thing Bush has done lately. The ONLY one who has done anything is Walker and you think it is easy.......Lord you must really live in a fantasy World. I am a bit jealous actually.

[RginTN]

So, Walker showed tacit support for Common Core during most of his first term

---

sigh. he either vocally supported it or he didn’t

[citizen]

I suspect this guy may be a Dem plant. His trash Walker effort is the same think he did in 2012.

[txhurl]

Walker acts likes he’s being chased by an alligator: he zigs and zags his way on every major policy position until he makes his way back to the truck/campaign.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Whenever a candidate starts to look like he has a chance, the lizard people from outer space have him killed off and replaced by one of their kind transformed to look like a human. I for one welcome our lizard people overlords. “

You don't understand, Walker is not conservatively pure enough for us.
Proof of that is that he beat the Dems in fight after fight after fight, enraging Dems making them eat dust and getting them to try everything they can to stop him. They see him as a huge threat.

A pure conservative leader for us must LOSE every fight with Dems and blame others for it, preferably their own party.

You see to be pure is to lose, and lose all the time to Dems, then blame others for it.
Only when Dems win every fight and get everything they want then we win.

Did I mention how Reagan never beat Dems at anything either?

[napscoordinator]

That is ok....he zig zags all day long while getting results. I am sick of senators talking but not getting anything done. Our Governor starting with Walker are the only ones advancing conservatism. Senators are all talk and no action..........Cruz included.....he maybe be a great guy but he does not inspire enough to get his agenda passed. That is not good. Walker has inspired his state senate to pass MANY conservative bills. Sure he must put his foot down and demand that they pass the conservative bills, but that is what a leader does.

[Phosgood]

Very few people have the slightest idea what Common Core is all about. Apparently Walker has pulled the curtains back and does not like what he sees.
I have taken math through differential Equations and I can assure the public, they cannot help their 3rd grade student with CC math.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Personally I prefer Walker to everyone else, including Cruz.

Cruz is sounding more and more like a neocon and crony capitalist whore the more he opens his mouth.

[napscoordinator]

It is so glad that Walker has taken the lead on this. I have not been more excited to vote for anybody EVER. Not like this......I didn’t vote for Reagan either time. My first Presidential vote was for Bush Senior when I was 19.