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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” Summary from above : Walker is too conservative to beat Hillary and after he loses to her the GOP will run more moderate candidates so they can win again.”
LMAO!!!!
McCain got us Dr. Evil, and Romney sent him back for round two.
What great economy? What job growth?
More mockery of whomever I was responding to.
Actually I think Walker would have a very good chance of beating Hillary, and I would take him over Jeb any day.
With the Priebus rule change on who can participate in the debates (based on poll results), I don't trust these numbers. The guy made a single speech that, while good, wasn't outstanding, and his poll numbers shot through the roof? Why aren't the GOPe attacking him yet if he's so conservative?
Except his amnesty support, Walker looks good on the surface; However, something doesn't feel right about this surge, based on a single speech...
Walker did not surge due to a single speech. It has a lot to do with results and what he has accomplished. Notice that is why Governors are needed for President. I like Cruz but he hasn’t had a thing done....can’t even get the Republicans to pass his stuff. In order to be an effective Presidents like Walker and Reagan, you have to be principled and motivate the Congress to pass your stuff.
That's not his only problem.
Scott Walker trial balloon from NRA director ignores amnesty danger
Pm a much smaller scale, so has the Board of Education in my county, Douglas CO. And it’s spreading to other school districts in the state
The GOPe is any Republican who doesn’t believe exactly like I do. They are the enemy. It’s more important to get Hillary elected president than to elect anyone who doesn’t believe exactly like I do.
They might have a point.
Walker might just be too extreme a rightist to win a general election against a centralist like Hillary.
Maybe we should play it safe with someone more mainstream.
They are taking out our best man Christie, but wadda about Jeb?
His wife's Mexican and he speaks Mexican too.
I bet all those immigrants out in front of home Depot would vote for him.,
Nice try, but not quite. Walker can lose on immigration alone, unless he “evolves”, in today’s parlance.
If he does that, he’d make an acceptable substitute in the event Cruz doesn’t make it.
” Walker might just be too extreme a rightist to win a general election against a centralist like Hillary.”
LOL......there you go AGAIN!
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