Is Scott Walker the GOP's Sleeper Presidential Candidate?

National Journal ^ | June 17, 2013 | Beth Reinhard

[libstripper]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker polls near the bottom of would-be presidential contenders. Unlike potential rivals, you won't find him on the cover of Time magazine or slow-jamming the news with comedian Jimmy Fallon.

But he's a conservative Republican who won election in a blue state, survived a brutal recall campaign, and now posts approval ratings over 50 percent. A budget-slashing chief executive and son of a Baptist minister who straddles the fiscal and social conservative camps. A proven fundraiser who has put his thumb in the eye of President Obama and Big Labor.

[irish guard]

If they had trouble with Sarah Palin’s degree from the University of Idaho, the media and left will go nuts over the fact Walker hasn’t completed his undergraduate degree. Just sayin.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. I wish I was as convinced of that as you and others are.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Chickensoup.

[jimfree]

I thought Scott Walker didn’t sleep. He has accomplished a bunch.

[traditional1]

The GOP-E would NEVER promote a Conservative. If Walker sells out (like Rubio), THEN he may have a shot at being the Candidate.

Otherwise, it's just another RINO like Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan that will lead the Ticket.

[jjotto]

I presume Walker has sold out.

A few weeks ago, Scoot Walker came to Iowa for a fundraiser for he and Iowa Gov. Branstad. The national GOPe spokespeople cranked up an EXPLOSION of fawning over Walker, falsely claiming Iowans were clamoring for him as a presidential candidate.

That kind of hype doesn’t happen spontaneously and wasn’t organized by anyone connected with the TEA Party.

[arthurus]

In the Republican Party there are no Sleeper cndidates. Jeb Bush has been selected as the "next in line" because "it's his turn." The Republican nomination in 2016 is irrelevant to Conservatives. Conservatives and the Republic will lơse the election. If Conservatives do not have the cojones to form another party to replace the Republican Party then there is no political future for conservatives and onstitutional principles. I believe that politically active conservatives do not have the requisite cojones, grit, or what have you. We have become a socialist European Bureaucracatic system moving deliberately and rapidly to Bureaucratic Totalism.