Posted on 07/13/2015 7:30:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Scott Walker, the political phenomenon who rose to national fame by taking on unions in one of the most blue-collar states, announced Monday that he’ll seek the Republican nomination for president, using his kick-off rally to throw red meat to his conservative supporters.
“Americans want to vote for something and for someone,” Walker told the roaring crowd in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “So tonight, let me tell you what I’m for. I’m for reform, growth, safety. I’m for transferring power from Washington into the hands of hard working tax payers in all states across the country, that’s real reform.”…
“I realize unlike some out there I didn’t inherit fame or fortune from my family,” Walker said during a speech to a Christian broadcasters convention in February. “I got a bunch of things that were a whole lot better than that. I got from my parents and my grandparents the belief that if you work hard and you play by the rules, here in America you can do and be anything you want.”…
“Our donor is not the tried and true Republican donor in New York City that’s given to everybody since Reagan, Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of the investment firm SkyBridge Capital who is raising money for Walker, told CNN earlier this month. “We don’t have the mercenary donor that’s paying for past political favors.”
“Americans deserve a president who will fight and win for them,” Walker declared. “You see, It doesn’t matter if you’re from a big city, a suburb or a small town, I will fight and win for you. Healthy or sick, born or unborn, I will fight and win for you.”
He becomes the 15th high-profile Republican to enter the GOP presidential contest, yet claims to occupy a unique space in the congested field. He not only fights for conservative principles, he says, but he also wins elections and policy debates in a state that typically supports Democrats.
Speaking in the same hall where he celebrated his successful recall election three years earlier, Walker left little doubt that his successful, if divisive, fights with labor unions would serve as the foundation for his presidential campaign. Through five years in office, Walker enacted policies weakening organized labor’s political power and became the first governor in U.S. history to defeat a recall election.
Labor unions spent millions of dollars to defeat him, but failed.
He drives a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He brags about wearing a sweater he bought for $1 at Kohl’s department store.
He touts his humble upbringing as a small-town minister’s son, and how he proposed to his wife over ribs at a local barbecue joint. Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, has criss-crossed the country for months regaling crowds with his everyman, “regular Joe” shtick…
“He’s a Midwesterner, he is a governor, and he is an average Joe,” said Larry Sabato, a politics expert at the University of Virginia. “People can relate to that. And if you pretend to be something you’re not, you’re going to be unmasked.”…
Whoever wins the GOP nomination can expect the liberal hate machine, a coalition of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, to vilify the Republican standard bearer as a racist, sexist, homophobe who cares only for the rich and wants to throw elderly grandmothers off cliffs. They will elevate benign comments like “binders full of women” into grievous insults. But sometimes Republican candidates supply the liberal hate machine with rocks as Mitt Romney did when he made the infamous 47% remarks. Romney’s inability to communicate with people in a resonant way effectively rendered him unable to overcome the liberal hate machine.
This is what I believe sets Walker apart not only from Romney, but the current 2016 GOP field. Like anyone else, Walker is human. He will make mistakes and say things in the wrong way. Last February, when speaking about ISIS, Walker said, “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.” Walker was criticized for appearing to have compared union activists to ISIS and took heat for it for a day or so (even from some conservatives). But the story quickly ran its course. I think it’s very clear that Scott Walker didn’t intend to compare union activists to ISIS and it is equally clear that most people intrinsically understood that. As such it did him no lasting damage.
I don’t know if Walker has skin made of Teflon, but it is certainly thicker than that of the present occupant in the White House. What has toughened him is the fact that liberals from all over the country have made a concerted effort to unseat Walker and undo his reforms and he has found a way to beat them at every turn. It is no small accomplishment that Walker is the first governor in American history to survive a recall vote.
“I’m for transferring power from Washington into the hands of hard working tax payers in all states across the country, that’s real reform.”…
Amen!
I love this guy, like I have never loved a pol in my life.
This is the guy to unite behind.
THIS GUY, Scott Walker.
Enough with the Ivy Leaguers, we’ve had an unbroken line of them from both sides now since GHWB, they’ve expertly managed this country in to a deep ditch.
Let’s give an ordinary person a chance to turn things around.
Scott Walker strangled the Unions in their birthplace, and won reelection twice after.
He is the guy, HE IS THE GUY.
Forget the rest, he’s the best!
The most impressive bit is “he get’s things done” deep in a Blue state.
The most impressive bit is “he get’s things done” deep in a Blue state.
Walker does not HATE the Unions...
He merely does not want them bleeding the State quite so badly
He is not Anti-Union... which is WHY? I could never vote for him..
The Unions have been BLEEDING all of America.. not only Wisconsin..
Same with Rick Santorum.. and many other republicans..
They are PARASITES.... Vampires.. (union members).. especially the elected ones..
Statists thru and thru..
How would you know that he is not Anti Union? You are in Alaska
Notable quotes from Scott Walker’s Presidential announcement speech plus some videos.
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Personally, I would like to think that he really meant to compare union activists with ISIS. That is what it felt like here “on the ground”. Nobody was beheaded, although I can’t vouch for what was in their hearts! They were pretty ugly in their behavior.
How would you know that he is not Anti Union? You are in Alaska
Because to even GET elected to anything in Wisconson you cannot actually be Anti-Union..
He’s anti-Union OVERREACH...
I’m more for the guy thats the MOST Anti_Union...
Pro-Union is always a democrat or Rino(sometimes stealth)..
ALL Unions have been commie controlled since the 20’s.. in this and most country’s.
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