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Ted Cruz on Walker Drop-Out: ‘Holy Cow’
National Review ^ | September 21, 2015 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 09/21/2015 8:08:20 PM PDT by Isara

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s reported decision to drop out of the Republican presidential primary shocked at least one rival.

“Holy cow,” Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) replied when he learned that Walker plans to end his bid for the White House. As recently as April, a Cruz ally was predicting that Walker would make a strong bid in the Texas primary. Walker led the field there in February.

The New York Times reports that Walker will make the announcement at a 6 p.m. news conference in Madison, Wics. “The short answer is money,” a Walker ally said explaining the decision. “He’s made a decision not to limp into Iowa.”

The Washington Post reported last week that Walker’s donors were getting nervous and wanted him to shake up his campaign staff. “Many backers have directed their ire at campaign manager Rick Wiley, who some Walker supporters believe expanded the staff too quickly and has failed to calibrate spending during the summer fundraising season,” according to the report. “A recent count put the number of full-time Walker campaign staff at around 90, and there have been no cutbacks in salaries as there were earlier this summer in former Florida governor Jeb Bush’s operation.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; cruz2016; scottwalker; tcruz; tedcruz; walker2016not
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To: henkster

Whoever wins now must be able to fight as hard as he did in Wisconson.


21 posted on 09/21/2015 8:50:37 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: editor-surveyor

I agree, but they’re taking votes away from Cruz. They are not serious candidates though.


22 posted on 09/21/2015 8:51:01 PM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: henkster

Unless whatever it is was used as leverage to get him out.


23 posted on 09/21/2015 8:57:27 PM PDT by kalee
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To: TBP

He was my second choice after Cruz.


24 posted on 09/21/2015 8:58:35 PM PDT by kalee
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To: RginTN

I think that there’s more to this than what we’re hearing.


25 posted on 09/21/2015 8:58:47 PM PDT by matthew fuller (This is black slime and it needs to be eradicated from American society. (obama and holder))
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To: editor-surveyor

“Carly is a joke, and Carson will continue to self destruct without any outside help.”

I respectfully disagree. Carly is a liberal. But not a joke. She is a formidable public speaker who sounds conservative even though she is not. I know a lot of very conservative women, especially, who are gaga over her.

I’m curious why you think Carson is self-destructing. Is it the recent remarks about a Muslim president?


26 posted on 09/21/2015 9:02:25 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: erod; editor-surveyor

“I agree, but they’re taking votes away from Cruz.”

I’m glad we’re not voting yet! And while poll numbers may be disheartening to Cruz at the moment - he is doing better than most when it comes to the money that will be needed when the campaigns really kick in to high gear. Over a million dollars raised in 48 hours after the last debate.


27 posted on 09/21/2015 9:08:21 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: RginTN

“I don’t understand how a guy can beat the Union machine can drop out of the presidential race so soon.”

Easy, he was CLUELESS about national and international policy. I’m sure he could name every governmental department in Wisconsin and how many full-time staff work in each, but he is running for NATIONAL OFFICE - it takes DECADES to prepare.

No different than Perry 4 years ago (and this year), Cain 4 years ago, and Carson/Carla now, making various mistakes.

Trump is different - he was on Oprah 27 years ago and sounded just as he does today - he’s been preparing for this as well as anyone alive.


28 posted on 09/21/2015 9:09:46 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: 21twelve; erod

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There are gigabytes of stuff to wipe Carly out in the files of Lucent and HP!

And also from her Senate run in California.

She can’t hide form any of it.


29 posted on 09/21/2015 9:12:56 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
Carson will continue to self destruct

He obviously hasn't thought a lot of things through, but I loved what he said about the incompatibility of Islam and the Constitution. It was brilliant, ballsy, clarifying, patriotic, true, and so un-PC it was bound to get a satisfying amount of shocked coverage in the LSM, helpfully spreading the idea. All the conservatives should pick up this point—all the worthy ones who dare!

30 posted on 09/21/2015 9:18:45 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Isara

Holy Cow?

Isn’t that a Hindu thing?

Is Cruz really a Christian if he believes in Holy Cows?

Should a Hindu be elected president?


31 posted on 09/21/2015 9:23:25 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: Scotswife
Exactly what I was thinking ... I mean - Huckabee & Jindal are still in it. This is bizarre.

If the stories are correct, it appears he burned through his money and with his low poll numbers, the big donors weren't offering more. Jindal and Huckabee aren't spending as fast so they can last longer.

32 posted on 09/21/2015 9:25:50 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: RginTN

Walker never had any real funding. I suspect that he added up the numbers and knew by October that he’d be heavily in debt and just said he didn’t want to dig out. My guess is that whoever wins in November of 2016....might hire him for a cabinet post. If not...Baldwin’s senate seat comes up in 2018 and he could easily beat her.

I would say this....back six months ago...I thought Walker would last out and be number two behind Bush at the Convention (figuring the establishment an control folks would ensure Jeb’s position). I’d go ahead ahead and predict that Jeb will barely have the funding to survive until the Iowa primary.


33 posted on 09/21/2015 9:28:12 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: editor-surveyor
Carson will continue to self destruct without any outside help.

He won a lot of points with his frank admission that Islam is not compatible with the Constitution.

Will any other candidate step up to that plate?

34 posted on 09/21/2015 9:28:29 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: Scotswife

I agree. This is sort of strange. Something tells me there is more of this story to be revealed.


35 posted on 09/21/2015 9:30:16 PM PDT by juggernaut
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

That said, I’ll bet Jindal’s gone in a month. I think they’re gonna start dropping fast now.


36 posted on 09/21/2015 9:31:31 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: henkster
I think he chose to listen to the GOP-e consultants, who sabotaged his campaign.

It's not like we haven't seen that before. They did exactly that to Bill Simon in California:

Is the GOP Losing Races Due to Greedy Consultants?

Republicans have lost hundreds of elections because they concentrate exclusively on the air wars and neglect the ground wars. By this he means that candidates for Congress, for example, just advertise and don't bother to organize precincts so they can identify their voters and turn them out on Election Day.

The GOP did a postmortem on that 2000 election and was astonished to find that a significant portion of its base didn't vote.

The political consultants, who make their money giving advice to campaigns, almost always have dismissed the need to organize the grass roots. The dirty little secret is that most of them get a 15 % kickback for booking media advertising. Any money that goes toward a serious grass-roots organizing effort is money unavailable for media.

The Republican National Committee called in all the consultants from across the nation and briefed them on their plan to implement grass-roots organizing for the 2002 elections. They all applauded. But many of them were thinking "over my dead body."

This is serious stuff. Many of these consultants are as mean as they come. For far too long, many of these unethical consultants have lined their own pockets at the expense of the candidates they are supposed to be helping, and perhaps even at the expense of the nation.

Perhaps a candidate who lost by 4 percent might have turned out to be a man of true integrity and fortitude who could have helped to turn this nation around. But he is not in Congress today because some consultant talked him out of a good grass-roots organization to ensure the availability of more money for TV ads that usually are seen by thousands upon thousands of people who can't vote in that particular district anyway.

Source

So inaddition to the screwing Carl Rove is giving to conservative candidates Simon, Salmon, Schundler, and Smith we have the consulting industry as well.
37 posted on 09/21/2015 9:33:02 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (CIAO Trump: Conservative In Appearance Only)
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To: pepsionice
Walker never had any real funding. I suspect that he added up the numbers and knew by October that he’d be heavily in debt and just said he didn’t want to dig out.

Walker would have done himself a favor if he had called in sick to the debates. He looks like a teenager. People just can't picture that face in a facedown with someone like Putin. Rubio has the same problem. Baby faces. No perceived Gravitas.

Cruz and Trump both have what Walker and Rubio lack. Trump has it in spades.

Fiorina, Walker, Rubio all look weak on stage. I'd put Linda Graham in that category, but she is polling worse than Walker and Walker just dropped out.

38 posted on 09/21/2015 9:34:07 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: TBP

I agree.


39 posted on 09/21/2015 9:37:13 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."- George Washington)
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To: BobL

Trump has also been watching all the shows for years. He basically knows as much as I do about the issues because of that, which is a lot more than Walker.


40 posted on 09/21/2015 9:42:37 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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