Slow Your Roll on Scott Walker

Townhall ^ | 2/7/2015 | Steve Deace

[gwgn02]

We’re still a year away from the first official votes being cast in the 2016 Republican presidential primary in my home state of Iowa. Yet some of my brethren seem willing to declare the contest over and award Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker the victory before he’s truly been vetted.

How about we make a guy go through the job interview before we hire him based solely off his resume?

Now, to be sure Walker has an attractive resume, which is why I have several kind things to say about him in my book Rules for Patriots: How Conservatives Can Win Again. This is also where I lay out the four pillars of the American Left: the child-killing movement, the homosexual lobby, the educrats, and the government sector union mobocracy. In my lifetime, Walker is the only Republican elected official who has dismantled one of those pillars (government sector union mobocracy). w process.

[Guenevere]

Count me in.....my thoughts exactly!

[Boomer]

Thank you. You nailed it. Walker’s resume counts big time; especially his 3 wins as governor.

I like Cruz but I just don’t see him pulling enough moderate votes to defeat the shrill one on the left. Walker can.

[JRandomFreeper]

LOL! Conventional thinking, all over again. It won't work this time. Too many people are pissed off.

And yep, you bet that it takes my vote, along with millions of others to GRANT a vice presidency. Right now, my time and my money are going to Cruz. I'm not big on leaving that right to the media.

Walker has different experience, not all the experience. Cruz has a heck of a lot of experience, too. And Walker may have won in his State, but he does need guidance when it comes to principles. Cruz can offer that.

How arrogant of you to give my money and vote to the 'conventional wisdom' of the media that so desperately wants to choose candidate. Ain't gonna happen.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Walker can't do it without a lot of conservative votes. Including mine. You bet I'm going to decide, and not let 'conventional wisdom' like yours decide my vote and where my money goes.

Get used to people being pissed off.

Who do you think decides who the general candidate gets to be? The media?

/johnny

[trebb]

That is our side's problem in a nutshell. When a candidate does some really noteworthy things and is successful, because he focused on each issue with enough energy to be successful, we will then bitch about what he hasn't done yet even though the evidence says that focusing on one important issue at a time is the best way to make progress. They'd rather vote for the rhetoric that says a lot but does nothing.

That said - I'm backing Cruz because he backs his rhetoric up with effort wherever he can despite his lack of "standing" (because Dems and GOPes hate him equally) in the arena he fights in.

[eyedigress]

So where is this crap from 2008 or 2012 vetting Hillary or Barry?

Phhtttt!

[eyedigress]

I don’t follow any of your reasoning there.

Walker has an entire state to run. Cruz has a staff.

I like them both but the executive edge is clearly in Walker’s favor.

[ncpatriot]

I ditto everything you say.
Can you think of anything he has been squishy on?

[JRandomFreeper]

Doesn't matter if you don't understand that experience doesn't give Walker any grasp of principles.

Based on your logic, the liberal governor of California has better experience than Cruz.

As I said, it doesn't matter. I'll keep sending my time and money to Cruz. Not Walker.

And Cruz has changed the dialog of the primary at this point, like it or not, he has moved it to things that conservatives, not always republican, want.

/johnny

[Bratch]

Question about Governor Walker. Is there any issue he champions that would put him in conflict with the Chamber of Commerce types?

IMO, one of the major problems we face is the rampant crony capitalism that exists between Congress and Big Business.

Does Governor Walker seem the type to address this issue?

[Montana_Sam]

Cruz is great, but he has zip for executive experience. Yet.

Executive experience is like learning to box. A guy can be a great shadow-boxer, but until he has gotten in the ring and had his nose poked a few times, nobody can say how he'll react when he's hit. We know how Walker reacts - he hits back. Hard. Cruz has to prove himself.

[mrsmel]

I don’t know if we’re ever going to see another staunchly anti-illegal immigration candidate, besides Cruz, ever again, who has a real chance to be a player in Washington. Both sides want the unfettered immigration, for their own reasons. Both sides have big-money donors who want it, and don’t have to rely on the penny-ante contributions from regular citizens, and voting is becoming more and more indeterminate in how the country is run. Just look at how the states have been steamrolled in spite of repeated victorious propositions opposing sodomite “marriage”, including in, of all places, California, three times. The politicians on both sides have figured out how to advance their agendas without bothering about the will of the people.

[Nextrush]

When Walker attacks the “Fortune 500” specifically for threatening religious freedom as they proved recently in two states (Indiana and Arkansas) let me know.

Walker has made good economic moves like right-to-work that will benefit all business and the big crony capitalist ones that have a “progressive sexual agenda”.

Walker has helped the business elites, now he must tell them to butt out of the Constitution and its First Amendment protections of free speech and religion as they have done regarding gay marriage and issues surrounding it.

This is about more than activists who are “perpetually offended” as Governor Walker put it.

Governor Bentley was openly keeping his mouth shut down in Alabama after a federal court ruling and the Alabama Supreme Court’s rightful assertion of its authority to stop same sex marriages by probate judges.

He said he was afraid of jobs being lost and would not say anything in opposition to the pro gay marriage ruling.

[Nextrush]

I think Walker has credibility on economic matters because he is doing what the business elites want him to do along with many of the rest of us.

When all the religious freedom issues broke out and the Republican governors caved into corporate-big business pressure last month Walker spoke of people as in LGBT acitvists who were “perpetually offended”.

Meanwhile, Cruz came out attacking the “Fortune 500” for threatening “religious freedom”.

I think the First Amendment is worth defending for those who don’t want to use their business to support gay marriage. I might not agree, but I defend their right not to do that.

The business elites in this country are attacking the First Amendment and Walker has been absolutely squishy with his ‘perpetually offended’ comment that ducks the Constitutional issues at stake.

[eyedigress]

I understand what I need to understand.

I will give more support to an executive of state more than I will a representative of state.

Why you think moonbeam is on my list is quite stupid.

There is no need to claim that I support any moonbat.

[conservativejoy]

Cruz also ran the Solicitor Generals Office in Texas with 4000 employees and 700 lawyers. Supervising 700 lawyers had to be like herding cats!

Cruz also know how to deregulate by his experience in the Fedural Regulatory Commission.

I thought Walker was courageous on unions until I found out he only targeted those that hadn’t supported his election and gave others, like the Public Safety Unions, a pass.

There are a lot of other issues with Walker. You might find the Red State article, “Twelve Reasons Not to Vote for Scott Walker” enlightening. I went down the list and researched every issue. It was spot on.

[rabidralph]

Ditto.

[Unmarked Package]

And Cruz has changed the dialog of the primary at this point, like it or not, he has moved it to things that conservatives, not always republican, want.

I am right there with you, brother.

I well remember the example back in 1987 when a friend of then VP GHW Bush asked him to take several days off at Camp David developing his plans for a prospective presidency, to which Bush replied dismissively and in exasperation, "Oh, the vision thing." That's how an administrator thinks, not a great leader.

One thing that the last 6+ painful years of Obama has taught me is a vision of governance can advance an agenda without benefit of executive skill to back it up; a terribly destructive agenda in the case of Obama. This is a huge change in thinking for me considering, for 45+ years of voting, executive experience has been near the top of my list for POTUS qualifications.

Reagan had the unwavering "vision thing" to rebuild a demoralized, economically damaged nation and great good came from his guiding principles.

Ted Cruz has the vision, developed from his upbringing and over his lifetime, to reclaim our Constitution and Bill of Rights to return the nation to Rule of Law. At this perilous point in our history, we need a trustworthy leader with a resolute ideology and a record of doing what he promises to rein in the oppressive federal government.

My time and money are committed to Ted Cruz.

[Norseman]

>>I thought Walker was courageous on unions until I found out he only targeted those that hadn’t supported his election and gave others, like the Public Safety Unions, a pass.<<

Here’s another way to look at it: Walker was extremely courageous in taking on the two most powerful unions in the state, the teachers and the public-sector unions, and he succeeded.

He was also very politically astute in realizing that if he included the police and fireman unions he would be taking on so much at one time that he would very likely fail to get anything done at all. Even if a bill was passed and signed, he quite likely would have lost his recall election under those circumstances.

One of Walker’s main attributes is that, as a politician, he’s very practiced at the politics of various matters. He takes very big bites of the apple each time, but is smart enough not to stuff the entire apple in his mouth at once.

Those of you who maintain you’ll vote for Cruz, and Cruz only, don’t choke on that apple you’re trying to swallow whole. And don’t misunderstand me either. If Cruz manages to get the nomination, I’ll be voting for him. I think he’s a top tier candidate, but note the word “tier.”

[conservativejoy]

I will support Walker if he gets the nomination, but I still have reservations about him. I read an article at Red State “Twelve Reasons not to Vote for Scott Walker” and checked out each of the issues listed. The article was correct.

Immigration is my biggest issue and it goes hand in hand with National Security. I don’t like it when a candidate says one thing behind doors to the Chamber of Commerce and another thing on the stump.