[JediJones]

LOL. Walker doesn’t have the charisma to win on the top of the ticket. He could be a good V.P. though.

How are his union reforms holding up there? I remember liberals were ready to burn down Wisconsin the year they were passed. Now I haven’t heard a peep about them since he won his recall. You’d think if they constituted the mass torture the libs said they would that we would still be hearing sob stories.

[Mygirlsmom]

Just two years after instituting his Act 10 initiative, Wisconsin has gone from a budget deficit of 3.6 billion to an UNEXPECTED budget surplus of $760 million. When the news of the larger than predicted surplus hit, Walker and the Republican leadership immediately proposed and passed tax relief, (both income and property)

Now....when was the last time you heard the word unexpected and the news was positive?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I saw this the other day.

[sgtyork]

Wisconsin public unions have lost 30-40 percent of their membership.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/15/wisconsin-teachers-union-decertified-in-latest-blow-to-labor-under-walker-law/

We are pretty jazzed because the money freed up by eliminating the fixed costs the unions represented have yielded Wisconsin residents income and now property tax cuts.

http://fox6now.com/2013/10/18/gov-walker-to-sign-bill-providing-property-tax-relief-on-sunday/

So he doesn’t have charisma, but he walks the walk on smaller government and playing chess while his oponents are running to neighboring states or sitting in drum circles.

And he spoke at multiple tea party rallies back in the day.

[MediaMole]

Many of the public employee unions have decertified. Act 10 effectively cut off their source of funding since municipalities can no longer withhold union dues and membership is no longer compulsory.

The state now has a $700 million+ budget surplus and there was just a special session to pass another tax cut.

Things aren’t perfect in Wisconsin, but they are going in the right direction. Even though the rats railed against the tax cut, most of them voted for it since it was targeted as property tax relief.

IMHO, Walker is a quiet and humble leader who lets his successes speak for themselves. This book is a little out of character, but then again, this is the AP reporting on him.

The biggest issue for him on the national stage will be his lack of a college degree. But, in that, he is almost the anti-obama. He is an effective leader and gets results, but doesn’t have the book learning liberal elites say you need.