Posted on 09/22/2015 6:52:58 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination failed to catch fire not because of the dramatic rise of Donald Trump but due to the fact that Walker "never understood how to apply his record at the state level to the federal level," Dick Morris tells Newsmax TV.
"What he needed to do was to talk about the insidious power of unions and [how they were] crippling education in this country and make education his big issue and use that to get women over the gender gap but he never did. He just ran as if this was a state race and he was just continuing his state campaign," Morris, a Newsmax TV political analyst and best-selling author of "Power Grab: Obama's Dangerous Plan for a One-Party Nation," told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner.
Walker abruptly ended his campaign Monday after plummeting in the polls following lackluster performances in the first two GOP debates.
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"The reason Walker dropped out, the reason Walker never caught on, is he had a fabulous record in Wisconsin but he never made the transition from a state campaign to a federal campaign. He never understood how to apply his record at the state level to the federal level.
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"The other thing is that he is just way too young-looking for the race. When I met him at a fundraiser in 2010 he greeted me at the door. I thought he was the kid that parked the cars."
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I think there was only one post on FR the week before the election predicting that Obama would win.
He’s got a web site and he live-tweeted the last debate. Didn’t read it at the time but there were a lot of good comments. Lot of pro-Trump, pro-Cruz, anti-Carson, anti-Carly, anti-Rubio comments. He’s still a far better analyst than almost all of the talking heads on Fox now.
https://twitter.com/DickMorrisTweet?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
The point is there was nothing incorrect in what I wrote—and you somehow tried to call me on.
His analysis is correct. It is easier to say illegals are ruining this country, and be believed, because people have personal experience or can see the evidence around them. It’s not so easy to explain that unions and governments take your tax dollars without any accountability and that’s why you have less money in your paycheck and nothing gets fixed at City Hall.
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