Scott Walker, the gutless wonder of the 2016 presidential race

The Week ^ | March 19, 2015 | Michael Brendan Dougherty, senior correspondent

[Norseman]

>>Wake up!<<

Huh...what?...oh, thanks...nodding off for a bit there.

Now, what are you talking about?.....Washington-centric nattering political pundits.....huh?

No, I meant Walker. I’d be surprised if anybody on his team, including Walker himself, expected to rocket to the front on following his Iowa speech....course Rush didn’t hurt him any....

Sorry, didn’t mean for an innocent comment to upset you so....

[txhurl]

I’m starting to think the RATS, with the exception of zero and VJ expected Mittens to win, along with everybody else.

The fact that he didn’t has driven them to ruin.

And more ruin to come.

So did mittens throw the elections with his ‘failure’ of Orca, or was that just the cover story?

[Norseman]

And if we can survive the next two years, staying home might even have sent the right message, provided we nominate a conservative this time around. Of course, as people keep pointing out, staying home presented risks too. After all, we might actually not survive the next two years, although I’m optimistic that we will, and that we’ll come out stronger than ever.

[entropy12]

We are good at dividing more conservative voters in Primaries. GOPe is smart, they back only ONE candidate.

Mitt Vs (Newt+Ricky+Cain+Bachmann) in 2012

McCain vs (Huckabee+Giuliani+Duncan Hunter+Paul) in 2008

Dole Vs (Buchanan+Forbes+Phil Gramm+Alan Keys) in 1996

There are not enough conservative republican voters in the country to anoint multiple conservatives over ONE RINO backed by GOPe.

The GOPe will not change. What needs to change is the other more conservative candidates get rid of ego’s, become unselfish, make some deals and get behind one conservative candidate who seems most electable in general.

In 2016, watch my words....GOPe will back only ONE candidate..Jeb Bush. In their minds he is the most electable. GOPe considers Tea Partiers extreme.

[entropy12]

Please read post #64.

[entropy12]

Please read post #64.

[Norseman]

To be honest, looking at your list of conservative challengers, until this year it’s been pretty slim pickings. I do think this time around will be a different story, however....plenty of good choices from the get go. Of course, you might say that’s the problem?

[Major Matt Mason]

The Walker campaign recently announced that it had hired Liz Mair, a highly regarded Republican consultant

Probably isn't even a Republican, just like many of these "Republican" consultants.

[txhurl]

that we’ll come out stronger than ever.

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People haven’t $een the creeping incremental socialism until now, when the RATS have had to go balls to the wall to get their poison passed.

They have to feel the full pain before they learn to reject it.

[marron]

First, I like Walker. I like what I’ve seen of his willingness to fight.

Second, I’m concerned that he hired someone soft on immigration. I already observe that its not his issue. He himself isn’t a true-believer on the subject. He has waffled a bit.

As for his consultant, I do notice that he could have defended her and simply said, she is good at what she does, and she doesn’t set policy, I do.

At the same time, I’ve seen his courage under fire on issues where he is invested.

So I’m still willing to consider him as Cruz’s running mate. I still think they’d make a good team.

[Impy]

Michelle Brenda sounds scared.

[Blacksheep]

Glad he dumped her. The fight over her would have been all MSM would have talked about. Made a mistake, fixed it and moved on. Good move.

[USS Alaska]

Muckrakers on the right pointed out that Mair supported "amnesty" for immigrants who had entered the country illegally, or something like it.

Muckrakers on the right, no bias there.

[trebb]

It is assumed that policy is set by the candidates themselves, not by the people advising them on their social media accounts.

However, Mair's hiring was subject to an unusual amount of scrutiny. Muckrakers on the right pointed out that Mair supported "amnesty" for immigrants who had entered the country illegally, or something like it.

Sound familiar? Folks here trash those they do not like because they have been seen within 3 miles of someone who has opinions that they do not like. Then, they re-trash the person if he puts more distance between themselves and the bad influence.

[SunkenCiv]

[Liberty Valance]

lol

[BraveMan]

I suppose then he was also a Gutless Wonder when he asked the WI D.A. to look into Kevin Kavanaugh’s actions, which kickstarted the whole multi-year John Doe probe off and running.

I wonder why the author didn’t mention his lack of spine back then?

[Lion Den Dan]

Never underestimate the perfidy of the left. I wonder if this woman was a Trojan horse. I saw this happen several times in the Army where a non-com was thought loyal to some SGM but had become disaffected. The SGM placed his man in a desired slot only to discover the rat was undercutting him.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Or see Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace circa 2008.

[entropy12]

wide choice is never a problem.
dividing conservative voters till the bitter end is the problem.

if yo want a conservative nominee, let’s have one Rino versus ONE conservative.

Multiple conservatives running against Jeb Bush will guarantee Jeb will be the nominee.