Posted on 02/05/2015 9:06:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Scott Walker is the hottest thing in the 2016 GOP presidential race (to the extent it even exists). He gave a very well-received speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit a couple of weekends ago, and the new Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll of the Iowa caucuses has him surging into first place..
Which is even more notable because of one of the prevailing questions about Walker's likely candidacy: whether he's too boring to win.
Walker, you see, has the unfortunate distinction of running four years after another upper-Midwestern GOP governor flamed out early in the GOP primary. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, it seemed, was too Midwestern even for Iowa. The likeliest challenger to Mitt Romney's front-runner status — on paper at least — underperformed in the Iowa Straw Poll and was out of the race well before the caucuses started the official voting.
So the Walker-Pawlenty comparisons were inevitable.
"When some have talked about Walker, they unfavorably compare him to Gov. Tim Pawlenty, another nice, neighborly Republican who was considered too tepid," wrote Slate's John Dickerson last week.
Bloomberg declared this week: "If Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker runs for president, he should take a good hard look at the styling of another Midwestern governor, Tim Pawlenty, and what doomed that candidacy in 2012."(continued)
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I know Walker didn’t go to college, but we have had more than our share of Harvard and Yale grads. Would make an exception for Ted, but he did not surrender to their indoctrination.
I posted this on another thread:
Now, assuming he’ll chameleon to secure the left of his own state, how far will he go left to get those chunks that Romney couldn’t? And this is all before the general in Nov. ‘16.
Now, if he wins POTUS, how far will he have to move left to secure his *second* term?
The fact that Walker isn’t moving RIGHT on *any* issue should tell you who he is, he’s Mitt Romney 25yrs younger but now with Mitt’s endorsement, voter base and donor rolls.
Nevermind all the things he’s done: where is the man *going*?
...whether he’s too boring to win.”
Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, just sizzle with excitement.
Walker might lack some charisma, compared to slick liars in the democRAT party but he's no Pawlenty.
Excellent points!
“I know Walker didn’t go to college”
Just a small correction RatRipper. He did attend college. He attended Marquette University (a Catholic college in Milwaukee). However he didn’t finish his degree. He says he is working to finish it. I think he plans on finishing by the 2016 election.
Well I think T-Paw was pushing cap n tax which just screamed RINO.
Was Truman a Midwesterner or a Southerner? He was from Jackson County, which had a lot of Confederates, and Truman’s own ancestors supported the Confederacy.
Isn’t Marquette one of those colleges which was originally Catholic, but you wouldn’t know it from what goes on there now? (I haven’t been there but just recall reading stories about it.)
I believe he frequently spoke of his Midwestern values.
Yes. Sadly that is the case with a few other Catholic Universities as well.
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