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Grover Norquist: What makes Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker a good choice for 2016
Reuters ^ | November 20, 2014 | Grover G. Norquist and Patrick Gleason

Posted on 11/22/2014 8:01:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

After the GOP’s midterm-elections sweep, the Republican Party holds more U.S. House seats and controls more state houses than at any time since 1928. Having reached this goal, the GOP now needs to look for a 2016 presidential nominee to match this success.

President Calvin Coolidge, who sat in the Oval Office from 1923 to 1929, would be a smart model for the party. He reined in spending and reduced tax rates at a time when it was as needed as it is today. President Ronald Reagan admired Coolidge so much that he hung a portrait of the 30th president in his Cabinet Room.

One talked-about possible 2016 presidential candidate who shares many of Coolidge’s policy bona fides is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who won his third statewide race in four years on Nov. 4. The two men have so much in common that it is worth seeing what Coolidge’s experience can tell us about a potential President Walker....

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Wisconsin; Issues
KEYWORDS: 2016election; amnesty; election2016; grovernorquist; illegals; kuwait; samahalrayyes; scottwalker; taxreform; wisconsin
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To: Theodore R.

Woodrow Wilson?


21 posted on 11/22/2014 10:19:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Zathras

The consultants are part of the elite/establishment. If they find they can’t control the candidate (meaning: turn them into RINOs), they intentionally destroy their campaigns. See Michele Bachmann with Ed Rollins for an example.


22 posted on 11/22/2014 10:23:48 PM PST by Waryone
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To: LibFreeUSA

Democrats of like mind supported Reagan. Norquist is not of like mind to conservatives.


23 posted on 11/22/2014 10:25:30 PM PST by Waryone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Grover endorsement is one Walker doesn’t need.


24 posted on 11/22/2014 11:00:42 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Grover likes him, I don’t.


25 posted on 11/22/2014 11:28:53 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: itsahoot

“If Grover likes him, I don’t.”

Absolutely. An endorsement by Grover Norquist is the kiss of death.


26 posted on 11/22/2014 11:29:52 PM PST by Pelham (Lawbreaking foreigners get rewarded with amnesty. Laws are for suckers.)
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To: LibFreeUSA
He’s going to be tough to beat.

He is mushy on immigration and that problem is not going away any time soon.

27 posted on 11/22/2014 11:30:11 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Walker just slid....


28 posted on 11/23/2014 3:22:36 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What makes Grover someone we would even want to listen to, let alone take seriously?


29 posted on 11/23/2014 6:21:40 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfusbutcher)
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To: Waryone

Ed Rollins “won” how many campaigns, was it one? Or none?


30 posted on 11/23/2014 12:15:36 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: LibFreeUSA

The democrats that supported Reagan were NOT the so called leaders....Reagan was supported by rank and file blue collar workers who liked his straight talk.

Perhaps you ought to find out more about Grover and his Palestinian muslim wife as well as Grover’s association with convicted terrorists. (financial aid to terror organizations is a form of terrorism). He is unrepentant and spends his time trying to get citizens of the US to be kind to people who want to slaughter them


31 posted on 11/23/2014 1:05:54 PM PST by Nifster
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To: nascarnation; bandleader; Ouderkirk; Jim Robinson; Vendome; SunkenCiv; Rumplemeyer; oldasrocks; ...

More relevant than the day it was written, I would think.

32 posted on 02/15/2015 1:29:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Grover Norquist’s choice for president—really says it all!


33 posted on 02/15/2015 1:42:24 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, Walker would be a good choice, for amnesty backers.


34 posted on 02/15/2015 5:18:51 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As my tagline says...

It's Cruz, Pence or Walker, anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....

We need to coalesce behind all of them here on FR and stop the infighting and stop the Jebster, the Huckster, and all the rest of the Lilliputians off at the pass.

Let the 3 I mention duke it out mano-e-mano, my guess is any 2 of the 3 would make a great ticket POTUS and VP, and it would be all gravy...

35 posted on 02/15/2015 5:28:19 AM PST by taildragger (It's Cruz, Pence or Walker, anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: TigersEye

He on board the Cheap Labor Express


36 posted on 02/15/2015 5:43:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

thanks for the ping


37 posted on 02/15/2015 5:43:30 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I was called a purist during the last election for having utter disdain for mittens. Still, I did hold my nose and pull the lever on that day, and have felt dirty ever since.

We are fortunate to have a patriot like Ted Cruz preparing to run. I am not so pure that I will hold Ted's faults against him and refuse to vote for him. I stand with Ted.

Walker has many virtues. He's a good man and we are lucky to have an accomplished governor preparing to run. I am not so pure that I will hold Scott's faults against him and refuse to vote for him.

I will not vote for Jeb. Period.

Jeb has all the big money, so the COC wing of the party is his, and his alone. That means Conservatives are going to be split several ways. In light of his, Conservatives need to unite early behind one candidate.

The makings of a flame war between the Cruz camp and the Walker camp is already heating up. What I suggest is that we count our blessings to have two such fine candidates and agree to a pact.

If Cruz has more primary votes than Walker after, say, after S. Carolina we all stick with Ted. If Walker, we get behind Walker.

38 posted on 02/15/2015 6:07:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee

SC has been fixed by having Grahamnesty in the race, taking it out as any kind of springboard for a conservative.

Walker has been good for WI. I was born there and like what he has done for the state. He should stay and finish the job he started.

He’s for amnesty and should not be considered for President. We have had enough Presidents who refuse to uphold the rule of law. If we don’t elect someone who will uphold the rule of law, this country is finished.


39 posted on 02/15/2015 6:23:10 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
He’s for amnesty and should not be considered for President. We have had enough Presidents who refuse to uphold the rule of law. If we don’t elect someone who will uphold the rule of law, this country is finished.

So you'll vote for a governor who won't uphold the law?

40 posted on 02/15/2015 7:32:03 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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