Is Scott Walker Losing His Ability to Enrage the Left? [signals for state media to ignore him]

MADISON, Wisconsin—Walker Derangement Syndrome is dead. A few hours ago, unions and their supporters held one last protest before the passage of right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin, and it was a staid affair. This is not normal. People who don’t like Scott Walker typically aren’t calm about it.

Walker is a strong contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination largely because upward of 100,000 protesters descended on the state capitol in 2011 when he oversaw the passage of legislation that dramatically curbed the power of public-sector unions. Walker’s ability to draw rage from the left transcends space, time, and state lines—during his speech at CPAC last week, he shouted down a heckler and drew raucous applause from the conservative attendees.

Today’s event was comparatively sedate. Instead of thousands of protesters, I’d estimate there were hundreds. And though a few signs were eyebrow-raising (when I tried to take a picture of one that said “May 1933 Hitler abolishes unions … ” the sign-bearer’s friend stepped in front of it, asked if I was press, and then said, “No”), the event on the whole was calm, low-key, and resigned. No madness. No obscenity. Nothing diagnosable.........

...“Walker is able to promote policies,sign bills,come up with legislation that just drives the left crazy and makes them make irrational decisions that cross the lines of political decency,”said Matt Batzel, the national executive director of the conservative group American Majority. “And it backfires on them. In some ways, this explains why Walker’s been so successful in Wisconsin:He gets such an outrageous reaction from the left.”

The right has become quite adept at capitalizing on that outrage. Roth explained that the new conservative infrastructure in Wisconsin—including Right Wisconsin, Media Trackers, and the MacIver Institute(the “free market voice for Wisconsin”)—learned during the 2011 protests how to push countervailing media narratives about Walker.......

One thing we can learn from this, and especially from Obama, is that people experience outrage fatigue. Obama has waged a non-stop war against the American people, with one unconstitutional act after another. When conservatives rise to react to one outrage, Obama piles on another... and another.

Walker has proven that this happens with the Left, too.

I wish the RINO pantywaists in DC would learn from this. Then again, they aren't really conservatives.

Ways to contact Scott Walker.

Walker's campaign site: Our American Revival - Good opening video and Ronald Reagan quote:

"It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government." - President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981

Scott Walker on Twitter

Ghee, I wonder WHY? < /sarc> ... NOT !

I quote Scott Walker and his PRO-AMNESTY position:

Endorses path to citizenship for immigrant workers Scott Walker distanced himself from House Republicans debating a new immigration bill by endorsing a path to citizenship for immigrant workers.Walker acknowledged that a substantial number of Wisconsin farms depend on migrant workers, some of them here illegally. He also was sharply critical of how difficult the federal government makes it for those workers to come to this country. "If people want to come here and work hard and benefit, I don't care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or Canada or South Africa or anywhere else," he said. "I want them here." The Democratic-led U.S. Senate passed an immigration bill last week that features a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. Many conservative House Republicans oppose the bill, viewing it as rewarding law-breakers. He said as a gubernatorial candidate in 2010 that he would sign an Arizona-style bill, which would allow local police to stop suspected illegal immigrants.Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, "Endorses path to citizenship" , Jul 3, 2013 Make it easier to enter the country legally Walker said he is in favor of the Senate immigration bill--that features a path to citizenship--but called it a backward "Band-Aid" approach, saying elected leaders should make it easier for people to enter the country and become legal citizens in the first place. "Not only do they need to fix things for people already here, or find some way to do it, there's got to be a larger way to fix the system in the first place," he said. "Because if it wasn't so cumbersome, if there wasn't such a long wait, if it wasn't so difficult to get in, we wouldn't have the other problems that we have (with people living here illegally)," he said. Walker's stance on immigration reform evolved over the years. Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, "Endorses path to citizenship" , Jul 3, 2013 2010: stop suspected illegals; 2012: that's a distraction Walker's stance on immigration reform evolved over the years. He said as a gubernatorial candidate in 2010 that he would sign an Arizona-style bill, which would allow local police to stop suspected illegal immigrants, if he were elected. Then, in December 2012, Walker said he no longer favored such a bill, telling reporters that such legislation would become a "huge distraction" from accomplishing his agenda for the state. Today, Walker said he would support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants under some circumstances. Source: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, "Endorses path to citizenship" , Jul 3, 2013

[Walker hired Michael J. Gallagher, 31, an former Marine captain and Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, as his foreign-policy aide. Gallagher has moved to Madison and began work this week.]

Captain Michael Gallagher, USMC

"Fellow, Marine Corps' Junior Officer Strategic Intelligence Program Mike Gallagher is currently a fellow in the Marine Corps’ Junior Officer Strategic Intelligence Program and a student in the joint M.A. in Security Studies/Ph.D. in International Relations program at Georgetown University. Prior to this assignment, he served on General Petraeus’ CENTCOM Assessment Team and deployed twice to Al Anbar Province between 2007 and 2008 as a commander of intelligence teams.

Mike holds a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from National Defense Intelligence College. He received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, earning a certificate in Near Eastern Studies. At Georgetown, he intends to explore the role of intelligence in grand strategy design and presidential decision-making. Mike speaks Arabic and grew up in both Green Bay, WI and Costa Mesa, CA."

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