Posted on 09/18/2011 2:55:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Tommy COULD attract voters from left-of-center (as JS hopes!) to the right, but I'm just not seeing it. Sorry.
If it's Thompson (beating out Mark Neumann) against Tammy Baldwin? I'll hold my nose and vote for him...
Yes, the change has been nothing short of extraordinary. The GOP has hinted repeatedly that someday they might, possibly, contemplate reconsidering their permanent role as the Dems bitch. Maybe. If it's not too "radical". Or "hateful". But don't get your hopes up.
Tommy needs to fade away. Now is not the time for compromise and establishment politics.
I won’t vote for Tommy in the primary, but if it comes to the choice of him or Baldwin, I’ll vote for him then.
Tommy was the one who made Welfare reform a success story for the GOP
[facepalm]
"I do not think that word means what you think it means" -- Inigo Montoya
LOL! Not even close!
I’ve been getting an email of “SAT Question of the Day,” because my son is taking the test in November. When you click the answer on the email, it takes you to the College Board site and shows the correct answer and how many have answered the question correctly. Language questions tend to have 50% or fewer correct responses.
Yes. He did. But he didn’t put any stop-gaps in place and the Dems in this state screwed it up and made it worse than before!
It never did catch on nation-wide...ask any freeloader in any state. We have hundreds a week pouring in from IL, MN & MI to take advantage of Wisconsin Taxpayers...
Now that he’s kicked the Unionistas to the curb, I’m hoping that Governor Walker tackles welfare reform in his tenure.
You are 100% accurate on that statement....this crap about "Centrist" is poliitic-code for "RINO", and caving on principle.
The other politic-code word is "Moderate", meaning you vote with Democrats, and call yourself "Republican" (Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Pansey Graham, etc.).
It's one thing to negotiate terms of an idea, but it's a totally different animal to sway from CORE PRINCIPLES, AND CONTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES. If it ain't in the Constitution, it ain't needed to be made into "Law" by politicians and Activist Judges.
Look around; see what "moderate" has done to this once-great Country.
He’s a rino but not to the degree of Scott Brown or the two Maniacs.
“Look around; see what ‘moderate’ has done to this once-great Country.”
Exactly.
True. But as we’ve seen, if you give them a nose under the tent we’re in for Big Trouble! :)
Move Update demonstrated to state welfare agencies that about half their recipients had moved. The state welfare folks cut off the welfare. The recipients didn't come up to protest.
Which proved, I think, that about half of all welfare was given out under fraudulent conditions.
I don't think Tommy Thompson ever said that ~ in fact, he strikes me as the kind of guy who wouldn't believe it if he were hit upside the head with a mail sack full of forwarding orders for welfare recipients.
WI was the model that was used in the Contract with America plan. I still remember his advocacy for block grants after all these years.
Yup.
Spectator.
What can I say about Tommy Thompson? He was around when I was still living in Wisconsin, middle 1970’s, and he had a reputation then for standing up to the doctrinaire liberal Democrats, many of whom were down at the other end of State Street, on the UW-Madison campus. I supported him then, and I still support him today. And didn’t he have some time put in with the Bush Administration? So he already knows where some of the bodies are buried in the bowels of the “administrative branch”, and could ask the right questions when these (bureauc)rats are hauled before hearings up on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Not too centrist. The question is whether he’s too liberal.
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