Posted on 05/23/2015 2:38:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Over the last three months, the GOP's Iowa front-runner has become an incredible, shrinking presence on the campaign trail. Sure, he's still touring the country, introducing himself to voters, telling them how unafraid he was to stand up to the unions and liberal protesters he battled in Wisconsin, but he's also ducking out of uncontrolled situations, skipping questions from the press, and spending more time on small or private events, usually packed with friendly crowds. Last week, when he traveled to Israel usually an occasion to invite reporters or hold a press conference Walker held no press events. The same was true last month when he went to Europe. He skipped the press on a recent tour of the Mexico border, at a campaign stop in South Carolina, and even at a local chamber of commerce event in his home state of Wisconsin.....
...Theres a common feeling among Iowa GOP insiders that, as prominent Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats put it to me, his campaign intentionally put in the clutch, on Walkers meteoric rise, for two reasons: One, to manage his momentum going into 2016 and keep him from peaking too early. The other, to give the candidate time to prepare for the scrutiny that being a front-runner brings. .....
Update: Walker's campaign vigorously denies that he has been less accessible to the press, and sent along a list detailing a number of interviews he's given over the last two months, including with local reporters in Iowa and New Hampshire and with conservative outlets. The campaign did not respond to initial requests for comment regarding Walker's media availability.
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
It’s 0545 Saturday of Memorial Day weekend .... he’s still in bed ... leave him alone ... what’s it TO you ?
Good morning.
NY Magazine questions whether Scott Walker has put the “brakes” on his campaign to keep from peaking too early.
FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Thank You, Lord for another shot at yesterday ... only this time better
You are the poster child for mental disease.
Top ‘o the Morning CW
The notion that anyone would put forward that Scott Walker is afraid of anything (given what he’s been through) strikes me as alternative universeism. And, to somehow compare him to Obama, is plain moonbatism.
‘...he’s also ducking out of uncontrolled situations, skipping questions from the press, and spending more time on small or private events, usually packed with friendly crowds.’
Which is what Hillary is doing. No need to overexpose with 18 months to go.
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin"- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
[Wisconsin is the only state to ever revoke instate tuition for illegals.]
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Posters who choose to paint Walker as supporting "amnesty" must then paint Cruz with the same brush (if they were honest).
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"....We need to focus where theres agreement: securing the border and improving legal immigration, [Sen. Ted Cruz] said. And once we demonstrate we can secure the borders, I think then we can have a conversation about people who are here illegally. Cruz added that he tried unsuccessfully to pass an amendment to the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 that would have barred undocumented immigrants from receiving citizenship but still allowed them to obtain permits to live and work in America. Its failure, he said, showed Democrats were unwilling to compromise on citizenship at all costs.
Cruzs anecdote again left things open to interpretation. At the time he offered his citizenship amendment, The New York Times described it as Cruz seeking a middle ground between full citizenship and mass deportation in which undocumented immigrants could still work legally in America.
On Wednesday, however, a spokesman for Cruz, Brian Phillips, clarified to msnbc on Twitter that this interpretation was incorrect and Cruz merely offered the amendment as an exercise to prove Democrats obstinacy on citizenship. It was not an endorsement of the work permit component of the bill that his amendment left intact.
Cruzs amendment had nothing to do with that issue, Phillips said.
Cruz offered an unambiguous defense of greater legal immigration, where he boasted that he had offered to expand an annual cap on H1B visas for high-tech workers fivefold in order to attract more talent to the United States...." Ted Cruz tiptoes around immigration at Hispanic business event
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March 2015: We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false, she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.
I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment, Walker said. In terms of what to do beyond that, again, thats something we got to work with Congress on.
Conservative Media Rallies to Walker After Tough Talk on Legal Immigration "The conservative movements leading media icons lined up to back Scott Walker after the media attempted to lynch him for talking tough on immigration.
After being attacked by outlets such as MSNBC, Mother Jones magazine and the Huffington Post, Walker stayed the course, telling the Quad City Times on Friday that American workers had to come first.".....................
You mean, like the Cruz supporters who were just sold down the river for Obama's secret trade powers?
every election cycle we at FR try to "out-conservative" each other to the point of vicious insanity.
STOP IT!
I agree. I dread the backstabbing on FR come election time.
This election and the last we have a great field of candidates.
You’re the one supporting a SELLOUT !
I don't think Walker is Hillary though
It seems like common sense to minimize contact with a hostile press.
This is the Internet Age. He can get out his message while bypassing the press.
You really are stupid.
Ted Cruz offered that amendment after he voted to move the TPA along.
Ted Cruz's amendment went down in flames (like everyone knew it would) so the bill has NO PROTECTION from Obama flooding our nation with illegals.
On final vote, with the details still in secret and Cruz's amendment voted down, CRUZ VOTED TO PASS THE BILL
Ted Cruz wanted this to pass all along. He penned op eds and urged its passage. His amendment and talk was empty pabulum meant to sway the weak-minded, like you.
Ted Cruz is an establishment, amnesty, US Chamber, Golman Sachs Republican.
Ted Cruz, first term Senator....gives great speeches, then votes the other way....reminds me of another first-term Senator who ran for President.
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