Posted on 02/05/2014 7:13:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
With Chris Christie still stuck in a traffic scandal at the foot of the George Washington Bridge, the donors and Main Street Republicans who make up the bulk of the GOP center-right establishment can be forgiven for feeling a little nervous.
If Christie fades, this cohort, which boosted both Mitt Romney and John McCain to the nomination, fear that a Tea Party-fueled candidate will take over the party, leading to a drubbing at the hands of the Democrats come November 2016.
Thus hopes have turned to Jeb Bush as a possible savior, even though the Florida governor has been out of office for seven years. Its why Paul Ryan is practically being dragged into the race, even though the Wisconsin congressman and former vice-presidential nominee seems set on staying in the House. Its why there have even been rumbles that even Romney is considering another go, his two-time rejection by the American public notwithstanding.
So without other options, can the establishment learn to love Scott Walker?
The controversial Wisconsin governor is slated to come and hobnob with top New York donors this spring, and he has quickly become a top draw for radio and TV bookers now that Christie has gone mostly silent. And although Walkers public persona as a cultural warrior for the Tea Party became cemented after his efforts to strip the union public sector of collective bargaining rights, for many, his appeal actually lies in the fact that he may be one of the few Republicans running who can sway independent voters.
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As a die-hard CA Teaparty supporter, I would support Scott Walker in a heartbeat. He is conservative, and not afraid (unlike Boehner) to stand up to the Dems.
Major Walker ping!
Well said, Lake. McCain has proven over and over and over again that he holds no fealty to our most fundamental American concepts. It shows in everything he says and does -- yet Sarah feels honor bound to stand by her 'friend'.
Comes a time when any good and decent person has to recognize that their loyalty to a friend is misplaced, when that friend has demonstrably proven themselves to be in polar opposition to everything one believes in.
I hear that she checks in here from time to time.
Sarah, if you're reading this, please re-examine your public support of John McCain. Review his performance in office since being re-elected to the Senate, and ask yourself if you honestly can support someone who would do and say the things McCain has, in these last five years.
I know that, in good conscience, you can't.
She, on the other hand, needs cause to separate from this political marriage. And that is what it was. A marriage is more than a contract or a partnership even if most Americans no longer think so.
i’m sorry you decided that the use of the word penalize wasn’t good enough. If i’m not mistaken i also put in immediate deportation for any not complying. Next time i’ll write an entire page.
If so, you're much closer to her than I will ever be. Please say 'Hi' for me and relay my good wishes to her and her family.
I can't speak for her or for her reasons, only for me and mine and my anti-McCain bias, which now clouds my judgment about hers.
ANY GOP nominee will receive relentless machine gun fire. WE can’t reject a competent leader just b/c leftist fiends don’t like him or her. Bob
Palin, if you noticed, damned McCain with faint praise. At least, that’s how I read it. Bob
I’d take that with a grain of salt. Jeb is unelectable.
I appreciate your take on it, Bob. I’ll look more carefully for that possibility next time. I do like her. Him? Not even not so much.
Some of the players have changed, but the song remains the same.
I was talking amnesty. I agree with Scott Walker busting unions. Also I agree with appealing to union workers whether they leave or stay in the union.
When Rand or Boehner talks about “just legalizing” the illegals they are inviting the illegals to take all sorts of jobs outside of restaurants and farms. Like in banks, armored trucks, offices and military installations. Compassionate amnesty lite is heartless to working and middle class people.
This is in fact a point that is not hammered enough and you are entirely correct. To adopt your position into my own theme: why does the GOP run away from the immigration issue, when it should be saying that any form of amnesty [including non-citizenship "guest worker" programs] is going to harm the most vulnerable people in our society? It isn't going to hurt the very rich: they love their near-slave labor. The Koch Brothers and Soros are in agreement on this; very rich Democrats and very rich Republicans both want lots more cheap jobs, and they want the jobs to stay cheap. Amnesty is going to displace low-skill, low-wage people. As a matter of fact, it is going to harm new, legally minted Latinos more than probably any other group except [possibly] Blacks.
Your comments are ridiculous! Scott Walker FOUGHT like no one I have
seen in a very long time, where the hell were you LIVING UNDER A ROCK somewhere? Do you NOT REMEMBER what the hell Walker went
through? Like I said your remarks are ridiculous you are ONE of the very
reasons our country is in Obammies hands right now!!!
Always been that way.
We got saddled with Nixon because even though he was a liberal he was an anticommunist, and that was the most important issue of the time. When support for him collapsed, it collapsed with Hugh Scott and his merry bunch of squishes.
We carried water for Bush II because he had some conservative impulses and on the response to Al Qaeda's attack on America he was correct. What did we get in return? Rove and all the Texas insiders stabbing us in the back whenever the opportunity arose.
If they've ditched Christie it means we won't have to support him when he starts nominating Islamists to the Federal Courts, pushing full-blown amnesty, or whatever idiocy he's got up his sleeve.
Time to ditch Bush the Pudgy next.
DITTO! DITTO! DITTO!
In the case of congress, there is huge difference in the electorate in MA and Texas.
The voters they must answer to don't react anything alike on many issues. Lou Gomert is not and doesn't have to be the least bit articulate, his district is a carved out solid conservatives. The government shuts down and they will welcome him as a hero.
Now the POTUS race is a different and more complex story.
if you are commenting on post 56.....it was a misprint and only posted the italicized comments I took from someone elses post.....move on to my next comment, I think it was 59 or so where I corrected my prevous post.....I LOVE Walker and contribute to him even though I live in Indiana....
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