“He’s been vetted at least 3 times. Lord we know more about him then any of the other candidates combined.....some we know nothing about.”
Not really. We may know a lot about his personal life. Whether he has any skeletons in his closet for example but what do we really know about his beliefs about issues that never came up during any of his runs for governor? For example, illegal immigration wasn’t even on the topic list for the state of WI.
This is a national election for POTUS. There are issues that Walker has never been vetted on before.
Eventually he will have to lay out his policies and a platform that he will run on. However his past statements and his behavior now will indicate how much we can trust what he says while he is campaigning. A candidate who seems consistent is going to win more trust than one who is all over the map as Walker has been.
It is impossible to be politically active in this country the past 6 years and not have some kind of opinion on immigration, gay marriage, common core etc. He just hasn’t decided which policy will be most likely to win him the WH.
Have you ever been to the People’s Republic of Madistan?
You wouldn’t be so cavalierly dismissing Gov. Walker if you had.
May I suggest then, that as you claim to have been to Madison many times, and to be familiar with the local landscape, that you are overlooking two issues:
1) the concerns of a governor usually don’t touch on national issues, or if they *do*, his take more closely reflects either the effects of that issue LOCALLY, or the opinions of that state’s voters (Wisconsin borders Canada, not Mexico, so Walker’s feedback on illegal immigration might not be the same as it would be from voters in Dallas or Albequerque)
2) “You dance with the ones who brung you” — most governors have their own political team...I read that Walker had worked with Liz Mair before; can you confirm?
If not, he did a rookie mistake during the vetting; if he had, he threw her under the bus quickly: whether for a tin ear, offending Iowans, or for being pro-amnesty while he was trying to go secure-borders.
(Yes, it might happen to be a flip-flop, but :
1) if he’s throwing campaign workers under the bus for contradicting the message, that’s more than most flip-floppers do, which is either change the subject, or attack the person pointing out their hypocrisy)...
2) at least he’s flopping to the more conservative direction on this one...
Back to you.
(What was your daughter’s PhD in? Mine is in molecular physics...)
Cheers!
You have some good points. I still think he is our best chance at saving the United States from falling apart economically. He will cut and cut the budget until only scraps are left. Senators only really know how to spend money. Senators have no clue as to balance a budget. State Governors know they can’t spend and spend...well at least the good ones like Walker know.