Posted on 01/31/2015 10:17:36 PM PST by entropy12
What we really crave is a conservative winner who doesn't cave. And Scott Walker is very arguably that guy.
He won in 2010. He picked a fight with Big Labor and won. He survived a recall. And he won again in 2014 — by almost the same margin as he did in 2010. That's three wins in four years for a man who governed as a conservative reformer in a state that the Republican presidential nominee hasn't carried since 1984.
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Forget Christie and Bush. Take a good hard look at Walker.
FYI
Okay:
Scott Walker supports path to citizenship
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/scott-walker-supports-path-to-citizenship-87960.html
Scott Walker backs path to citizenship, increased immigration
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/03/scott-walker-backs-path-to-citizenship-increased-immigration/
An MSNBC host introduces Walker as supporting a pathway to citizenship in this interview.
Walker’s response
“One correction on immigration. I’m talking about fixing the legal immigration system, not going beyond that”
Stop posting untruths.
An MSNBC host introduces Walker as supporting a pathway to citizenship in this interview.
Walker’s response
“One correction on immigration. I’m talking about fixing the legal immigration system, not going beyond that”
So ALL those news sources are lying about him?
Jeb knows this, so if Jeb is still a significant factor in the race a year from now, he will ask Scott to consider running as his Vice President, and Scotty will say yes.
But will he cave when the Establishment comes knocking at his door for a closed door meeting and tells him what positions to take and how he ‘should’ run on a national scale or else......the donor money dries up? Just wait until he hires those loser GOP advisors
I’m serious!
Plus for Walker supporters it may be a bad thing for him to be out in the frontrunning status this early because people tend to lose interest even though the message is good, so about time its primary time the next new shiny thing pops up and he’s old news
And my other favorite Cruz also supports amnesty as you call it.
Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Mr. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.
Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
Work permits and a path to citizenship are not the same thing. We’ve had work permits for around 100 years, as I’m sure you know. See: Operation Wetback and the Bracero program.
In “all” two of the articles you posted he’s clearly talking about the legal immigration system. At the end he tacks on a statement about a pathway for illegals but he apparently has corrected that.
I’m looking forward to a clear statement from Walker on his position on immigration.
Personally I am only for work permits. I saw first hand how well 2-year work permits are working in the most prosperous country of Singapore (every 6th citizen is a millionaire).
But I am not going to wait for the most right wing pure conservative candidate to magically appear. Even the candidate you are pushing for, Ted Cruz is against deporting illegals. And that only makes sense. Which is why Cruz is also on my preference list. Nothing wrong in supporting a proven republican winner from a blue state with solid executive experience in balancing budgets, giving middle class tax cuts and creating jobs, as Walker has actually done in blue Wisconsin.
Every sixth person? Is that right?
That’s about where I am. My current thinking has Cruz as plan A with Walker as a pretty good plan B. If Walker comes out with a clear position against path to citizenship, then he becomes plan A. I like Cruz but, all things being equal, my preference is for a governor over a senator in the role of chief executive. But this is subject to revision since a president’s job is also to represent and express the ideology of the nation, which in think Cruz would do excellently.
Cruz/Walker is the perfect ticket for 2016.
Yes, every 6th citizen in Singapore is a millionaire. That is what out elderly travel guide told us, and it is verifiable. It is a small country of 3.5 million, with 2 million foreign workers on 2-year work permits. The jobs are only given out if no citizen wants it.
The big side benefit of a work permit system is the authorities know exactly who is here, where they work, and where they live. Then look at our fxxed up system where no one knows how many are here, where they work, where they live, and are they even paying taxes.
if he’s standing at the end, that’s good, because i’ll be able to vote for him (something i couldn’t do with romney). godly man, an able man and a proven, battle tested conservative. and yes, i’m virulently opposed to amnesty of any stripe. if he proposes or supports a *new* or *different* path to citizenship for illegals then the path we already have for legals, or someone can show me positively where he supports rubio-schumer’s gang of 8 style amnesty bill (because that is the exemplar and defacto statement of the GOP’s amnesty), then i’ll reconsider my position and take a hard look at what he’s proposing.
Cruz is very eloquent, easily the best speaker in GOP. I have great deal of admiration for him.
“Cruz/Walker is the perfect ticket for 2016.”
I think that is the answer. Walker’s lack of a college degree will eat him up I think. But Cruz Walker gets us 16 years.
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