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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: P-Marlowe
He looks like a teenager.

Yep, there's a lot of balding teenagers out there, nowadays. ;-)
41 posted on 09/21/2015 9:45:55 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: scooby321

Walker has had everything thrown at him possible during the recall election here in Wisconsin. If there was a story coming, the fist pumping red shirted communists that invaded the capital to the sound drums and the smell of dirty feet would have unleashed it. Personally, I'm not buying the embarrassing press release angle. Sounds more a liberal casting aspersions on a conservative candidate at an opportune moment. LizMair who?


42 posted on 09/21/2015 9:48:15 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Brown Deer

Hey, I went to high school with one.

They do exist.


43 posted on 09/21/2015 9:49:06 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireally.supportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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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.
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Because he was circling the bowl. He was successful in Wisconsin with the labor issue and obviously was popular to be elected three times in four years. But He was a one trick pony. Good Governor, no doubt, but totally a dud when it came to charisma. His positions, when he did not stumble over himself, were weak and scripted...no passion or leadership. He either had terrible advisors or he just wasn’t ready for prime time national politics. He always was playing catch up including launching his campaign late. He also was being measured to the Trump phenomena. That’s a tough standard for any candidate. And until the GOPe figures it out, its going to be a rough road for them.


44 posted on 09/21/2015 9:52:31 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: RginTN

it’s because he lacks foresight, strategic planning, fiscal responsibility and the high school diploma he possesses.


45 posted on 09/21/2015 9:56:21 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Shrimp Egg Foo Young- A tasty dish! gravy on the side please)
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To: Brown Deer

If he came to my door, I'd think he was a Mormon Missionary - sans skinny black tie.

"Have you ever heard of the Book of Mormon?"

46 posted on 09/21/2015 9:58:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: JediJones

Agree...we are news junkies here and can tell one from far away. Trump is certainly one - and you need to be one, in order to fully develop your positions, since otherwise you have to be robotic, like Carla, and just keep running back to your talking points.


47 posted on 09/21/2015 10:01:50 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: Isara

Of the Four that sat at the children’s table, which one will move up to the main debate next time.


48 posted on 09/21/2015 10:15:51 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: so_real

She apparently worked for him, and was fired over Tweets she did...


49 posted on 09/21/2015 10:17:05 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Grasping at straws much?


50 posted on 09/21/2015 11:37:25 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Just pretending to be an unbiased journalist.


51 posted on 09/21/2015 11:42:38 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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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.

Money. With so many candidates there is only so much to go around. But I would have picked Huckabee or Graham or Kasich or pick-another-name to have dropped out by now. Not Walker.

52 posted on 09/22/2015 12:20:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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Unfortunately, Walker didn’t appear on POTUS radar, and that’s okay. He is still a vital asset to liberty.


53 posted on 09/22/2015 12:29:08 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Isara

“Holy cow,” Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) replied when he learned that Walker plans to end his bid for the White House.”

Cruz, big Phil Rizzuto fan....?


54 posted on 09/22/2015 1:16:34 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: P-Marlowe
Should a Hindu be elected president?

Bud-dah, bud-dah, Bud-dah. Only in India {or maybe Nepal}.

55 posted on 09/22/2015 3:39:31 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Scotswife

they’re leaving soon ...


56 posted on 09/22/2015 4:26:16 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Isara

Liberal media response:

Cruz just called Walker a cow.
Gov Walker how do you respond?


57 posted on 09/22/2015 5:45:44 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Carry_Okie

Thanks for the perspective on the political consulting industry wrecking campaigns. My take is that a candidate who defaults to the operations management of a campaign by hired consultants isn’t a fit candidate for office to begin with. It’s like he’s an empty suit who acts like a robot at the direction of these hired phonies.

I want an office holder who actually runs the campaign. He gives the orders, he sets the direction, the staff carries them out. A staffer who wants to pursue their own agenda needs to go somewhere else. Most of the time, we hear about campaign staff leaving after a tiff, but it’s rarely a tiff with the candidate, it’s a tiff with the other consultants.

Reminds me of the Nazi bureaucrats down in the bunker squabbling over scraps of rotten meat on the carcass of Hitler’s Third Reich.


58 posted on 09/22/2015 6:22:11 AM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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To: henkster
My take is that a candidate who defaults to the operations management of a campaign by hired consultants isn’t a fit candidate for office to begin with.

Disagree there. Not everybody has the same skill sets. What makes a great legislator isn't the same set as a great administrator. What makes a great campaigner isn't the same as a great leader. Just because the candidate is lacking in one respect doesn't mean that he or she is deficient in the others. WE are responsible for transforming the party (if that's the goal). WE are responsible for a great organization. WE are responsible for campaigns. Such skills can be learned and the Leadership Institute does a great job of teaching it at a very respectable price. Reagan's greatest skill was getting the grass roots to do that job.

Don't put that all on a candidate. You will disqualify many an able representative that way. This is about SELF GOVERNMENT. We have to do our part too. Among us are great administrators and communicators. Volunteer.

59 posted on 09/22/2015 6:47:39 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (CIAO Trump: Conservative In Appearance Only)
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To: P-Marlowe

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

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Carson didn’t need to do that, we already knew where he was on those issues, and in doing so, he provided them with another potential wedge to crack his armor.

Answering the MSM’s gotcha questions is a very bad habit, that apparently only Cruz is wise enough to avoid.
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60 posted on 09/22/2015 7:59:43 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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