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 ...
Oh yes, you're so right. /s
To go up against "the smartest woman in the world," we'll need the smartest man in the world.
The other way to look at it is:
What is the point of ONLY supporting those who have lost every single battle against Dems and then blaming their own own failures on their team for their losses?
Unlike the others Walker has beat them on their home ground that drive libs nuts..
Yes, Walker is going to disappoint me many times over.
But he sure won't be an Obama 2.
Get us someone better than him who can beat Jeb and then Hillary.
Get us a shown winner.
Always look at the source of comments like these. It's usually the New York Slimes, the LA Slimes or the Washington Pest.
Jonah Goldberg is a conservative.
Even though Jonah later says he is a 'golden' place. The Dems could seize upon the Vanilla comment and ride it for all it's worth.
Loose lips sinks ships.
So conservative columnists dare not criticize or even write about Republican politicians? Better tell that to all the people opining about Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Rick Perry or hundreds of others. Or does Scott Walker get preferential treatment since he’s ahead in some polls right now? That’s not how this country works.
I'll take plain Vanilla this time thank you very much...
Something simple, tried, and proven, nothin' fancy, old school....
Just as some of us have been saying: there will be none pure enough, none conservative enough, and none “ready for prime-time” for some on this forum. If the candidate is not 100% perfect in every way, they will be said to be a RINO or GOPe.
The Left really doesn’t have to do anything; we’ll take care of destroying our own candidates.
Maybe we can have another 4 million stay home in 2016...that’ll show everybody a thing or two.
We are so screwed.
Scott Walker has cut the influence of the public unions in Wisconsin. He has proven that he can successfully run an hour executive branch. His wife does not work for the Council on Foreign Relations.
So I have to get fully behind your candidate almost a YEAR before the Iowa caucuses or I’m a perfectionist who is dooming the party to another defeat? Seriously?
Which candidate’s wife works for the Council on Foreign Relations?
My guess is it will be 13 million, the same number that came out for Sarah in 08'. See my tagline, we go with one of the 3 or we are toast. Ticket splitting story the other day I think in realclear or politico. in 4 or 5 states on average 55,000 voted for House and Senate R in 12' but didn't pull the lever for Romney. It is time for the RNC, K-Street and the Chamber of Commerce to back down and stop trying to Fubar us and a Conservative Candidate. I am not sure who is our bigger adversary, Schumer, Warren the Media, the DNC or "our own team" I mentioned....
Walker did fight the bad guys in the unions and now he’s backed off.
A state senator in my area compared unions to Hitler and just got re-elected last year after saying it.
Is Scott Walker going to say something like that?
Maybe Walker should say union workers have been stabbed in the back by Democrats like Barack Obama who have given the Chamber of Commerce-business elites what they want with amnesty and a flow of cheap labor that will hurt working people in this country.
I don’t expect to hear that from Walker because the elites that fuel the Democrat and Republican political machines in this country have a friend in Scott Walker.
A friend whose job it is to suck up conservative support to stop Tea Party Ted Cruz and help GOP Establishment Jeb Bush win the Republican presidential nomination.
Obama’s weakness, and by extension ours, is just too tempting for the bad boys to resist.
A nugget in Walker’s budget:
“Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget would prohibit the state Department of Natural Resources from purchasing any land through its stewardship program until at least 2028 — if the program still exists then.
The budget the governor released Tuesday would place a moratorium on stewardship land acquisitions. It would last until the DNR’s debt service on purchases that already have been made drops to $1 for every $8 spent since the program’s inception in 1989. The program won’t reach that ratio until 2028. The moratorium is expected to save the state $13 million in debt by then, according to Walker’s budget.
The stewardship program is set to expire in mid-2020. Legislators could vote to renew it, but the program still couldn’t buy any land until it meets that debt ratio.
The stewardship program authorizes the DNR to borrow money for land purchases, boat landing repair, developing DNR property and grants to conservancy organizations and local governments for land acquisition. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has estimated the DNR has spent $84.7 million on stewardship land purchases from mid-2000 to mid-2014. The state spent $87 million paying off stewardship program debt in fiscal year 2013-14 alone, with $73.5 million of that coming from tax dollars, according to the fiscal bureau.
Republicans have long criticized the program, arguing it removes land from the tax rolls, closes off too much land to hunting and fishing and has run up massive debt.
The budget Walker signed in 2013 reduced stewardship borrowing authority from $60 million annually to $47.5 million in that budget’s first year. The spending plan set the limit at $54.5 million in the second year and the $50 million in each after that through mid-2020. That budget also capped the amount of stewardship land the DNR can own directly at 1.9 million acres, prohibited the DNR from buying land outside existing project boundaries without approval from the Legislature’s budget committee and directed the DNR to sell 10,000 acres by mid-2017.............................”
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Budget-would-end-Wisconsin-DNR-land-purchases-6060243.php
FR thread on this article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3253857/posts
Yes, the LA paper is no pal for sure.
Heide Cruz is a VP at Goldman Sachs and actively works on a CFR North American Union Task Force.
Walker is much more qualified for Pres. He has responsibility for the welfare of a state.
Cruz would be a good VP. He is not Pres material.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.