Posted on 02/06/2015 8:40:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"... Among candidates that the conservative base consider “real” conservatives(as opposed to Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, apostates on various key issues),Walker is the most likely to win the Republican nomination.And Democrats should hope he gets the nod.
The fundamentals suggest that the 2016 election will be extremely competitive. With economic growth picking up and President Obama’s approval rating trending back toward 50 percent,Democrats have a real chance now to capture a third term in the White House,historically a tough ask. But under all but the best conditions,Hillary Clinton will need every advantage she can get. As John Sides and Lynn Vavreck show in their must-read 2012 postmortem “The Gamble,”polls suggest that Obama,not Mitt Romney,was the candidate less ideologically similar to the average voter,and Obama’s liberalism may have cost him several percentage points with independent voters. It must be noted that truly independent voters(not voters who say they are independent but almost always vote for one of the parties)make up a small percentage of the electorate. But in what the fundamentals suggest will be a very close race,running a more moderate Democrat in Clinton against a stridently more conservative Republican in Walker could provide that 1 percent difference.
Furthermore, a losing Walker-led ticket would provide the best proof for the GOP base that the “our guy would have won if he was more conservative” argument is a myth. As much as outsiders rolled their eyes at post-election claims that Romney and John McCain “weren’t conservative,”it’s certainly true that they were on the more moderate side of their respective primary fields. It’d be impossible to claim that with Walker(though some will no doubt try).Maybe, just maybe,that will be enough to stop or at least stall the Republican Party’s sprint to the right and finally bring the GOP back to the bargaining table.
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Yea, throw us into that briar patch.
Whoever wins the GOP nomination has to have one trait above all others; the eye of the tiger.
There are many more on Walker.
100% will sell us out. Please do some research.
It was not a Walker conspiracy to deliver Wisconsin to Obama, but rather about five percent of voters who voted for Walker, later voted for Obama.
Though he has been elected, Walker is not especially popular in Wisconsin. Winning presidential candidates tend to be popular in their home states.
Reagan in California.
Bush I does not count as I am not sure anybody really paid much attention as he was in DC so much.
Clinton in Arkansas.
George W. Bush in Texas.
Al Gore - lost his home state of Tennessee.
Barack Obama - Illinois.
Ted Cruz is highly popular in Texas, as is Hillary in New York. However, Walker is by no stretch popular in Wisconsin. He has won elections with bare majorities, and the people that don’t like him and his policies have a great deal of animosity towards him.
Instead of trying to bully and bulldoze conservatives who value this country's sovereignty to line up for a candidate who won't commit to his now-held beliefs, time might be better spent in making them actually commit, or crudely put, "sh!t or get off the pot."
I don’t need to research somebody who won’t give a definitive explanation on his position on illegals in this country.
” Instead of trying to bully and bulldoze conservatives who value this country’s sovereignty to line up for a candidate....”
Oh, we are already getting plenty of this, and it will continue. Walker is doing billions a year in Mexico commerce. And his state is no California.
I can already see the conservative circular firing squad gearing up. Walker looks queasy on illegal immigration, but folks get real about this issue. None of these people, including Cruz, is going to mass deport the millions of illegals already here. The best we can hope for is a candidate who will build a fortified wall on the border and have the stones to call for a moratorium on all immigration for the next twenty years in order to get these people assimilated. Anyone who thinks Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Rick Perry, etc is going to deport tens of millions of illegals back to their home countries is living in dreamland.
Many shall have seats @ the President's Cabinet
*with Significant Duties/responsibilities (no funerals)
**Congressional Ldrs, Aren't usually invited
to work or give advise.
Dunno. I witness a lot of “bullying” - if you want to call it that — by those that don’t like walker much. Maybe I have missed what you are talking about. That is what primaries are for and we are not even close to the primaries. So there will be a lot of back and forth on walker and the rest if them. That’s how it works.
So far my take on walker is he is a conservative in enemy territory. The hard part is understanding what he would do nationally and agree he hasn’t been clear enough
Indeed, for every “moderate” they could lose, if they pick up 3 conservatives, then they come out ahead.
THE BEST WAY TO STOP RINOS FROM GETTING ELECTED IS TO VOTE FOR THEIR DEMOCRAT OPPONENT.
I saw what Gope did to our Tea Party candidates last fall.
No treachery was too low, calling conservatives racists, running a manner of nasty ads. Spending so much money and showing that GOPe isn’t inclusive of Tea Party , social conservatives. They would sooner reach across the aisle than widen the tent for conservatives.
I am for Ted Cruz. He is as close to a straight shooter as we have seen in decades. I don’t want someone pussyfooting
around their position like Clintonian TRIANGULATION.
I don’t see how Cruz could win the General if he can’t even win a conservative weekend poll with real voters. That is a big problem. His biggest problem is the first term Senator thing which we are just getting rid of.
Walker was born in the United States of America. He has every right to run.....those born outside of the United States??????? Well I guess since we had Obama any foreign born is welcome....spit!
I have to agree, winning 3 elections in 4 years is the first clear sign of underlying unpopularity among voters.
Furthermore, he has compounded that unpopularity by not taking on the Right to Work legislation. Instead he has focused on things that only he thinks are important for WI, education, smaller government items.
Clearly not ready for primetime.
BTTT
Maybe you’re a pro-choicer and against Evangelicals but that makes me more likely to vote for Perry or Walker.
Ill stick with Walker. He has accomplishments and proven abilities. No Christie or Bush....Cruz would be good but needs more time and more allies which comes in time.
Never vote for Rand Paul..never. Never listen to a word his wacked out followers say either.
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