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George Will: Walker's internal polls show him ahead of Trump in Iowa-1st choice of 2 time goers
September 15, 2015
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Posted on 09/15/2015 2:22:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Just watched last night's round table on Special Report.
Democrat A.B. Stoddard declares Walker's campaign dead.
George Will [paraphrasing] "Since I'm sleeping with the campaign I might as well give some inside information. Their polling shows that of those Republicans who showed up at the last caucus Walker is ahead of Trump, and for those Republicans who showed up at the last 2 caucuses, Walker is in the lead.
Charles Krauthammer agrees with Will. Walker's campaign is not over.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; gopprimary; iowa; polling; polls; trump; walker
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
To: Cincinatus' Wife
To: Cincinatus' Wife
George Will is a DemocRAT who got SO OFFENDED by the DemocRATS, that he couldn't tolerate being associated with all those "CRAZIES" .
Now for a deeper understanding of just WHO George Will IS:
The word "neocons" is ONLY used by LIBERALS, trying to insult Conservatives.
The is no such thing as a "NEW" Conservative.
Conservatives ARE Conservative, plain and simple.
But read this"Liberals, Conservatives, and Neocons Learn the Difference!
March 12, 2014
Almost everybody is confused about the word "neoconservative" and its shortened form, "neocon."
I find that liberals/Democrats seem to use it as a sort of disrespectful form of "conservative,"and probably have no idea the the words have distinct meanings.
On the other hand, I know of some conservatives who define it as "new conservatives,"meaning people who were formerly something else, but have converted to conservatism.
Both are wrong.
As near as I can tell, "neo-" doesn't apply to any other word that way formerly not X, but having become X.
No, "neo-" almost always refers to an ideology that is different from the root word in a significant way.Neoconfederates are not people who want to secede and become a separate country.
They want the ideals of the Confederacy to be applied to modern politics, more or less, but not all of them.
Neoliberal is a more vague term,but it specifically applies to people who may have SOME of the attributes of liberals,
but who contradict liberalism in their advocacy of free trade and privatization
and other ideas usually thought of as conservative.
And, finally, neoconservatives are mostly those moderate cold war LIBERALS who defected to the Republican party when the Democrats got totally flaky with McGovern and his ilk.
Their ultimate origin, however, is not the Democratic party but the Trotskyite movement.
Jack Kerwick elaborates.
Read this:
Most "Conservatives" Are Secretly Neoconservatives
12 March, 2014, by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.
A colleague of mine has drawn my attention to a Washington Post blog post Why Most Conservatives Are Secretly Liberals by a Professor John Sides, a political scientist at Georgetown University.
Sides agrees with fellow political scientists Christopher Ellis and James Stimson, co-authors of Ideology in America.
Ellis and Stimson CONTEND thatAmerica is, at bottom, a center-left nation,
for while 30 percent of self-described liberals are consistent in endorsing liberal policy prescriptions,
the same sort of consistency can be ascribed to only 15 percent of conservatives.
And another 30 percent of conservatives actually advance liberal positions.
In short, Americans may TALK the talk of conservatism, but they WALK the walk of liberalism.
That is, they favor Big Government.
Sides, Ellis, and Stimson, it seems clear to me, are liberals.
It doesnt require much reading between the lines to discern this.
That they associate liberals, and liberals ALONE, with such virtues as consistency and such lofty ideals as a cleaner environment and a stronger safety net is enough to bear this out.
Yet in peddling the ridiculous, patently absurd notion thatconservatives see the media as PROMOTING conservatism,
the verdict regarding their liberalism is seen for the NO-BRAINER that it is.
There is, though, another CLUE that unveils Sides, Ellis, and Stimsons ideological PREJUDICES:They equate the term liberalism with a robust affirmation of Big Government.
They treat liberalism synonymously with its modern, Welfare-Statist incarnation.
There is no mention here of the fact that, originally, liberalism referred toa vision that attached supreme value to individual liberty,
a vision in which government played, and had to play, a minimal role in the lives of its citizens.
And there is no mention of the fact that, if liberalism is now an ugly word,
it is because the very same socialists who made socialism an ugly word hijacked liberalism when it enjoyed a favorable reception
and visited upon it the same fate that they secured for socialism.
In other words, if Sides himself wanted to be bluntly honest, hed have to admit that liberals are secretly socialists.
Still, though their premises are bogus, Sides and his colleagues draw the correct conclusion thatmost conservatives are NOTHING OF THE KIND.
The truth of the matter is thatthe vast majority of contemporary conservatives are neoconservatives.
Now, neoconservatism is a term that hasnt the best reputation.
It has ALWAYS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL,
and most of its proponents have DISAVOWED IT to the point of, preposterously, condemning it as an anti-Semitic SLUR.
But George W. Bush and his party inflicted potentially irrevocable damage upon the label.
Conservatism is a more marketable label.
Nevertheless, the reality is that neoconservatism is indeed a distinct school of political thought.
Beyond this, it is fundamentally different in kind from classical conservatism.
Irving Kristol, the so-called Godfather of neoconservatism, an appellation that he readily endorsed, ADMITS this in noting boththat neoconservatism exists
and that conservative can be misleading when used to describe it.
Neoconservatism, you see, is THE INVENTION OF LEFTISTS like Kristol himself.
When the Democratic Party began veering too far to the Left in the 1960s, Kristol and more moderate leftists began turning toward the Republican Party.
So as TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES FROM traditional conservatives, they coined the term neoconservatism.
Neoconservatives, Kristol asserts, are not at all hostile to the idea of a welfare state even if they reject the vast and energetic bureaucracies created by the Great Society.
Neoconservatives ENDORSE social security, unemployment insurance, and some kind of family assistance plan, among other measures.
But whats most interesting, particularly at a time when ObamaCare has DIVIDED the country, is that Kristol reminds us thatneoconservatives SUPPORT some form of national health insurance.
In all truthfulness, however, neither a degree in political science nor an IQ above four is required to know thatneoconservatism has always championed Big Government
for it is its foreign policy vision more than anything else that distinguishes it from its competitors.
For neoconservatives, America is exceptional in being, as Kristol puts it, a creedal nation,the only nation in all of human history to have been founded upon an ideology of equality, of natural rights.
The U.S.A., then, has a responsibility to promote this ideology throughout the world.
And it is by way of a potentially boundless military i.e. Big Government that this ideological patriotism is to be executed.
Had the foregoing political scientists been looking in the right places, they would BE FORCED TO CONCLUDE that most conservatives are secretly neoconservatives.
So, you see that those WHO THEY CALL
"neoconservatives", are really nothing more than
the old moderate side of the DemocRATS.
It's just THAT SIMPLE .
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:05:02 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
I know it’s a winner when you SPAM a thread.
bttt!
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Whatever, he just killed his campaign by trying to carve out a niche as a union killer
He’ll get no democrat crossovers, no minority voters and very little interest from folks who see us living in a dangerous world where taking on open borders, ISIS, China, Russia, internal terrorists like BLM and the Potemkin village world economy are compelling issues that require strong unequivocal leadership which Walker has failed to convey
Not ready for prime time player
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:08:00 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
It really IS quite revealing the the LIBERAL George Will and the LIBERAL ATHEIST Charles Krauthammer are BOTH SELLING Scott Walker.
See, there's NO DOUBT that Walker has been BOUGHT and PAID FOR by the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS", if their puppets in the LAME Stream Media are blowing polls to the public about Walker.
What a bunch of baloney !
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:12:29 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
May 2, 2015:
With membership now voluntary, Wisconsin AFSCME forced into big cutbacks "Governor Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled state legislature freed government employees from involuntary forced union membership, enabling them to choose or not choose to pay dues. The results have shown that roughly two-thirds have not chosen union membership when given the opportunity. And that has meant big cutbacks for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the most left wing and biggest political contributors to Democrats among American unions.......
[SNIP]
.....Keep in mind that AFSCME [American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees] was founded in Wisconsin, the state that was the birthplace of the Progressive political movement. Thus, the rejection of forced union membership is doubly painful. And it is already painful for the union bosses:........"
....No mention is made of political donations by the unions, but in the past AFSCME has been a major source of money and manpower for the Democrats. That racket is now ending for workers in Wisconsin, and one of Scott Walkers strongest appeals will be to extend these reforms nationwide."
**********************************
..... On Monday [Sept 15, 2o15]...the Wisconsin governor released his plan to strangle unions, titled My Plan to Give Power to the People, Not the Union Bosses.
Sept 14, 2015: Scott Walker to propose abolishing unions for federal workers - ABOLISH NLRB
To: Yosemitest
What union are you in Yosemitest?
To: Cincinatus' Wife
No unions for me.
RETIRED Southern REBELS like me, despise Unions !
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:15:09 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
lol
right.
I didn’t even know Walker was still in the race!
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:17:04 AM PDT
by
TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
So you really support "OPEN BORDERS" Scott Walker ?
Your
PRO-AMNESTY Candidate, Scott Walker, is PROVED to be TALKING OUT OF BOTHS SIDES OF THE ISSUE (
you CAN NOT TRUST him ! ).
Watch the videos and READ the article from
HOT AIR, most certainly not on your list of band-sources.
... Two points.One: He says hes not for amnesty, his citizenship stance notwithstanding, but thats not a new soundbite for Walker.
Amnesty means many things to many people;to the Gang of Eight, for instance, the fact that illegals would be forced to meet certain requirements (paying back taxes, etc) before qualifying for citizenship meant that their plan wasnt amnesty.
Walkers been insisting for more than a year that he doesnt support amnesty eithereven though he does support citizenship and liberalizing the rules for legal immigration.
Two: Hes quick to tell Raddatz that hell lay out his own immigration plan eventually if he becomes a candidate,which is his way of saying dont ask me anything too specific right now.
Listening to him here, you would think he didnt have firm opinions on immigrationyet beyond some basic principles like secure the border.
But thats not so.
Watch him field a question on immigration from 2013 in the second clip below and note what he says about border security at around 1:30.
For Walker, securing the border is less a matter of building a fence or hiring 10,000 new Border Patrol agents than it is about RELAXING THE RULES for legal admission to the U.S.
His view seems to be
Let's keep LOSER Walker in his home state.
We don't need any more SELLOUTS in Washington D.C., and especially in the Oval Office!

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posted on
09/15/2015 3:17:55 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: silverleaf
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I would venture a guess that you thil Walker has the temperament to run this country and stand for us in the world...
Nice guy, nice try but you do not have what it takes. And we do not ave time to let you become ready
No Sale, Walker is NOT the man for the Presidency IMHO...
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:18:47 AM PDT
by
100American
(Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
To: Yosemitest
I guess this news is a homerun for Walker!
TWO SPAMS and the thread is still young.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Back in 1980 they were more accurate than the public polls.
It’s a bit hard to believe they could be *this* far off though.
To: 100American
Even Gov. Scott Walker’s opponents and the msm report that his temperament is very good - that he is always polite to them (it’s just that then he goes forward and beats the pants off of them).
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Walker's dead meat. Nobody believe anything coming out of the LAME STREAM MEDIA, anymore .
If Rush, or Mark Levin, or Glenn Beck notice him, Walkout might have a "last gasp" of air let in him feeble campaign.
But I seriously doubt it.
At best, he's selling himself to be Jeb "La Raza" Bush's running mate.
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:33:44 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
So, what do you think about internal polls? Anytime you ask everyone in your campaign who they'd vote for, you will get a lot of them saying they plan to vote for their employer.
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:36:56 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: Cincinatus' Wife
So, what do you think about internal polls? By definition, they are slanted.
Paid for by the candidate, what kind of results will keep the polling company in business for the next poll?
I like Walker, he was my third choice, but Wifey, you know that he rolled over for his big donor on the anchor babies kerfuffle.
I'm for it, no, I'm against it, no, I have no position until further orders from my money master.
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:40:29 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Liar and push polling for his wife
Just plain dishonest
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posted on
09/15/2015 3:43:25 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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