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Posted on 01/18/2015 2:33:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
With the three establishment-favored Governors(Jeb, Christie, Romney)having already all but declared, the time has come for other contenders to telegraph their intentions or face being left behind in the fundraising/operations cycle. One of my two favorite candidates for 2016 has always been Scott Walker, but the looming question has always been whether Walker would run at all given that a campaign would interfere fairly severely with the remainder of his second term. However,in a recent speech to the RNC, Walker seems to be attempting to remove the doubts about whether he will run:....
....Walker’s deficits at this point are well known. He is far from the most charismatic candidate in the field and he has developed a reputation as someone who does not delegate well, which could present a major problem in the context of a Presidential campaign. However, Walker brings a tremendous amount to like to the table as well, having essentially won three elections in a blue/purple state, to accompany an impressive and highly publicized record of hard-won reform and economic success.
His candidacy in many ways mirrors that of Tim Pawlenty’s in 2012, who also ran as a Midwestern pragmatist with a successful record, but who bowed out of the race before the first contest because his vanilla personality doomed him on the trail and with fundraisers. In retrospect,however,as the GOP primary electorate pinballed between one increasingly laughable alternative to Mitt Romney after another,culminating in the Santorum-as-frontrunner farce,Pawlenty may well have taken the nomination or at least made serious noise had he stayed in the race. Presumably,Walker watched all this unfold and understands that an opportunity to squeak under the wire may yet exist for a candidate who runs on the throne of liberal skulls that he has collected rather than on the ability to took compelling on television....
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
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4 more reads on Scott Walker for those want to learn more. The first link is a hit piece by the Left [’cause they don’t like that Walker believes in a higher power - so that is informative; last link is about his “lack” of higher education - so that too is informative; in between links: tactics and successes].
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27648.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396302/scott-walker-right-again-mario-loyola
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/scott-walker-the-un-academic/article/2558544
we need to get a conservative nominee. Let the RINOs divide the vote amongst themselves. Cruz or walker would be great choices. Cruz Martinez would make liberal heads explode
Strange headline.
He is far from the most charismatic candidate in the field and he has developed a reputation as someone who does not delegate well”
So.... I guess he just got lucky in his last elections then. What an azzhat.
Leftist extremists have been trying (and failing - for years) to take Walker out: District attorney’s wife drove case against Wis. Gov. Walker, insider says [an eye opening read]
There have been similar Leftist extremist tactics in Texas against Tom DeLay [finally dropped after years of investigation and prosecutorial torture] and currently against Gov. Rick Perry.
Not if its a hit piece.
Strange to some, but done I suspect to highlight the fact that defeating the Left on the issues is key to rolling back progressive policy - much more effective than nice sounding, bs rhetoric (that keeps moving us to the Left).
In order, my favorites are:
Tier 1: fully acceptable
Cruz
Sessions
Tier 2: tolerable
Walker
Martinez
Pence
Tier 3: In a pinch
Perry
All have some issue or other that prevents them from being the “perfect” candidate.
a socialist Mormon or a neo-conservative....uhm....I’d rather go with a true conservative bent on saving & reestablishing the Republic
#notagain
ping
Walker is my first choice with Perry a distant second.
Both have track records. Great track records. Something woefully missing in some of the other Tea Party favorites.
Oh, to be an artist...
So was Calvin Coolidge.
Calvin Coolidge did not have to deal with an electorate and a biased media that loves celebrities more than sober matters of state.....so the handlers and media turns politicians into celebrities (Clinton, Obama).
Comparing a candidate from the 1920s to one nearly 100 years later is ludicrous.
Campaigns today cannot be compared to campaigns of the 1960s, 70s or 80s.
Reagan was a great communicator and part of his success. Liberals thought he was just an actor/celebrity.
So, in the 1990s, the left started turning their candidates into celebrities....and it has worked ever since.
You missed my point - - but that’s OK.
Martinez/Walker or vice versa.
I love Cruz, but I would prefer him as AG so he can clean up justice before taking over as a justice on the high court.
I notice you left out native Texan Jebbie, who I believe will sweep the TX primary.
He is a dragon slayer. He left a trail of defeated college degreed leftist in his wake. No one else has stood up in the face of fire breathing minions from the dark side like Gov SW.
We have to get a conservative into the White house first.
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