Posted on 02/03/2015 11:52:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavor in America, not because it is the best (that would be coffee) but because it is the least objectionable. Put another way, vanilla is the most acceptable to the most people; it's not many people's favorite, but nobody hates it..
And that's why Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the vanilla candidate.
A new Des Moines Register poll has Walker in first place — narrowly — among likely Republican caucus-goers. With Mitt Romney included in the poll, he was the respondents' first choice with 15 percentage points. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was second with 14 percentage points and Romney with 13. With Romney out, Walker's lead rose to 16 percentage points and Paul's to 15. First place in a tightly packed field is better than any of the alternatives, but it's not that big a deal this far out.
The big deal is the vanilla factor. According to Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines Register, 51% of caucus-goers want an “anti-establishment candidate without a lot of ties to Washington or Wall Street who would change the way things are done and challenge conventional thinking.” Meanwhile, 43% prefer a more establishment figure “with executive experience who understands business and how to execute ideas.”
Walker is in the golden spot. He can, like Bill Murray in the movie “Groundhog Day” listening to Andie MacDowell explain the perfect man, reply “that's me” to almost everything Republicans want....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The site went from Cruz-supporters doing most of the talking while Walker supporters didn't say much, to Walker supporters seeing that Walker can indeed enthuse a crowd (which was the main misgiving I had before) and coming forward.
Which will be ideologically pure, and lose every election. Like the Libertarian Party has.
Just stop!
Yeah, we won the last election. so what. Boehener makes back room deals before they can even be sworn in. He punishes those that voted in a manner representing their district. Many campaigned on voting Boehner out, and then didn’t. We have trial after trial. Fast and Furious....IRS scandal....Benghazi. For what? Whose in jail? I heard Issa complain that he had been trying to get one person to testify at an irs hearing for months but the irs wouldn’t bring them. WTF? WHY aren’t they in jail? You or I wold be.
Do you honestly think this is about winning with republicans at this point?
Its fine for him to have concerns.
The other week Levin was saying how he got lots of hate emails calling him a sellout for agreeing to have Paul Ryan on his show again.
Maybe that's it. Walker goes on Rush's show but not Levin's.
So thats part of why he gets praised by one and not the other.
Cruz may indeed provide the fire needed to enthuse conservatives and moderate (something lacking in McCain and Romney) or he may turn off people outside his highly-conservative niche.
Standing up for the Constitution is now “highly Conservative”?
Please tell me what other opinions Cruz holds that are highly conservative that don’t involve the Constitution?
There's a trade-off. We need to get the best conservative who can actually win.
Boehener needs to go, and be replaced with somebody more conservative. If would have been nice if we had gotten a viable primary candidate to beat him. I would even have preferred if the conservatives in his district had voted for the Dem. One less House seat, but get rid of Boehener. But it didn't happen.
If we can't win an internal Republican-party struggle against a RINO, what makes you think we would win in the general election against both the Repubs AND the Dems?
Hey, I consider myself "highly conservative". If I was in charge, I would
In order for a true Conservative to win this thing, we need ONE candidate. If there are more than one, we both know that the gope will win again.
People for the last year have been doing nothing but calling or Cruz to run, and not just on this site, but on all conservative sites. There are links on all sites to his speeches, his and palins. Now, all of a sudden, after one speech in Iowa, Walker is up in a poll over 50%? Yeah, right. This Drudge poll has the stink of gope all over it.
We cannot continue to be this gullible.
Bottom line, many are telling you they will not vote for Walker, and all have reason to doubt his Conservatism. I for one don’t like how when asked about defunding o-care in 2013, he sided with the establishment. So, if you insist on persuing this avenue, go ahead. But realize you will not be able to count on the support from a whole lot of people. I don’t see how ticking off the base is a way to win, but if you think you can bring in other voters to replace them, well, good luck.
Seal the borders by putting up barbed wire, mine fields, and give rifle-armed border patrol orders to shoot anybody trying to cross in from Mexico.
Right, and as soon as we loose the house, the funding will stop, for this and no more mine fields. We are again back to where we started. This is one of those problems I believe both the dems and gope don’t want to fix so they can campaign on it.
We need a real fence. nothing less.
The two should make a pact that neither will personally attack the other, and that when it becomes evident which one has the most widespread support among Republicans, that the other will bow out and become the other's VP choice, and present a united front against the RINOs.
A "real fence" has the same vulnerability once funding is cut. "An obstacle which is not supported by observation and direct fire only serves to annoy the enemy".
You want to really end illegal immigration? Make being in the US illegally a felony. If you are caught in the US, you get deported, and forever barred from citizenship.
You want illegals to leave? Impose a $1,000 fine on any employer who is found to have an illegal employed, with the fine being collectable by ANY local police agency who finds the illegal alien. All of a sudden, all those cops who were manning speed traps would be beating the bushes for illegal aliens. Also, impose a PERSONAL fine against any welfare office staff member who approves an illegal for benefits.
AFter how the republicans have treated the tea party the last several years, I want proof that who we put up is not another gope hack. Christi took on the unions too, why not him then?
I did my own research on Walker. He will NEVER get my vote.
Like I posted Tuesday, what good is 99% good, when the 1% puts a bullet in your head? 30 Years in So. Cal taught me all I need to know about the destruction of illegal immigration, and Walker is an all too cozy relationship with Mexico. Do some research.
Would you? I find him to be one of the more tolerable “acts” out there.
Ann Coulter doesn't "trust" Walker on immigration, either. There's a thread here with her latest column where she's pimping the consistent, reliable anti-amnesty candidate... Mitt Romney:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3254180/posts
Unfortunately for Ann, the argument doesn't seem to be going well with rank-and-file conservative voters.
I still maintain that the "Ann Coulter is an infalliable godness and anyone who disagrees with her hates America" stuff started to fade around the time that the "Mark Levin is an infalliable god and anyone who disagrees with him hates America" stuff began to rise.
There's likely a correlation between the two. Sheeple need some cult of personality to tell them what to think about a candidate.
That's OK if you don't want to vote for him especially since CA will get Hillarys vote regardless, my state too
When I found that Cruz/H-1B visa thread a few weeks ago I did post a comment on it questioning whether those who were against this will now be for it because it was Cruz's proposal.
Ted Cruz Press release:”Legal immigration is a fundamental pillar of our nation's heritage, and I was pleased today to offer legislation that would have improved and expanded legal immigration by dramatically increasing the cap for high-tech temporary worker visas. This amendment would not only improve the current system, but would also encourage economic growth and create new jobs in America. There is currently a serious shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, yet every year we send thousands of high-tech graduate students back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs. This makes no sense. I’m disappointed in the committee’s vote to reject expanding high-tech immigration. Although the Gang of Eight's bill makes a modest step towards improving high-tech immigration, it does not go nearly far enough. There is no reason to arbitrarily cap high-tech visas at 110,000 when these jobs are going unfilled. We need economic growth here and now.”
Sen. Cruz Presents Measure to Strengthen, Improve Legal Immigration Offers amendment to increase H-1B visas to help improve, retain high-skilled labor force
She's obviously trying to defend her past decision to support him over the others.
Problem is that Romney recently said that congress should pass amnesty now.
OOOPS, not CA. I forgot its AZ McCain country.
CA is someone else.
“That’s OK if you don’t want to vote for him especially since CA will get Hillarys vote regardless, my state too”
Same here.
If Adolf Hitler ran here with a “D” next to his name, he’d win.
I think most Hispanics in AZ will vote for Hillary.
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