Walker Adviser on Strategy: ‘Much Easier To Move From Being Conservative to Moderate Later On’

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | July 13, 2015 | Dr. Susan Berry

[2ndDivisionVet]

A longtime Scott Walker adviser anonymously tells National Journal that the now officially announced presidential contender’s strategy will be to first “lock up” conservatives and then move to a more moderate position later on in the campaign.

“You start in Iowa and lock up conservatives, because if you don’t do that, none of the rest matters,” Walker’s adviser reportedly told journalist Tim Alberta. “It’s much easier to move from being a conservative to being a middle-of-the-road moderate later on.”

“In Iowa, you see the beginnings of that,” he added. “He’s capturing that conservative wing first and foremost, and then moving from Iowa to the other states and bringing other voters into the fold.”

The idea, according to the adviser, is that Walker’s strategy on the national playing field will be the same as what has worked in Wisconsin: he will present himself as a blue-collar, down to earth kind of guy who didn’t graduate from college, who appeals to everyone and, ultimately, unites all stripes of the Republican Party.

By way of example, the National Journal points to this ad put out by Walker’s re-election campaign last fall during his battle with Democrat Mary Burke....

[johniegrad]

No, Bob. This is a football game where your side is right and the other side is wrong. Go, team, go. There is no common ground only that which separates us from our neighbor. Please don’t tell me this needs a sarcasm label.

[johniegrad]

Do you have the idea somehow that I am under your command in some form or fashion? If so, disabuse yourself of it right now, Ma’am.

Intimidated by a woman. coward.

[2ndDivisionVet]

KMA.

[TADSLOS]

SUCKAHS!!

[johniegrad]

You couldnt answer her question and tried intimidating her but it didn’t work. Now you don’t even have the courage to tell me directly how you fell. Hiding behind initials. Coward.

[erod]

Hahahaha

[entropy12]

That is a $64,000 question. Should I hold my breath waiting for an answer?

[conservativejoy]

I think Cruz can be persuaded on the H1-B issue. He is for drastically limiting legal immigration overall.

Make your opinion known to him. I did.

[conservativejoy]

Here, here! One primary day makes a LOT of sense.

[editor-surveyor]

So, the truth is easier if it comes later?

Scott, why do you surround yourself with quislings?
.

[ElayneJ]

This is more blatant, IMO. An advisor who says “Our strategy is to trick all the conservatives” can’t expect to hold onto that job very long - or SHOULDN’T expect to hold onto the job. Even a mole needs to show a little more common sense.

[editor-surveyor]

Try Du, you’ll fit right in.

[Yosemitest]

There NO "SURPRISE" to it.

PRO-AMNESTY Candidate, Scott Walker, is PROVED to be TALKING OUT OF BOTHS SIDES OF THE ISSUE ( you CAN NOT TRUST him ! ).
Watch the videos and READ the article from HOT AIR, most certainly not on your list of band-sources.

... Two points.
One: He says he’s not for amnesty, his citizenship stance notwithstanding, but that’s not a new soundbite for Walker.
“Amnesty” means many things to many people;
to the Gang of Eight, for instance, the fact that illegals would be forced to meet certain requirements (paying back taxes, etc) before qualifying for citizenship meant that their plan wasn’t “amnesty.”
Walker’s been insisting for more than a year that he doesn’t support “amnesty” either
even though he does support citizenship and liberalizing the rules for legal immigration.

Two: He’s quick to tell Raddatz that he’ll lay out his own immigration plan eventually if he becomes a candidate,
which is his way of saying “don’t ask me anything too specific right now.”

Listening to him here, you would think he didn’t have firm opinions on immigration
yet beyond some basic principles like “secure the border.”
But that’s not so.
Watch him field a question on immigration from 2013 in the second clip below
and note what he says about border security at around 1:30.
For Walker, securing the border is less a matter of building a fence or hiring 10,000 new Border Patrol agents than it is about RELAXING THE RULES for legal admission to the U.S.
His view seems to be
that if you want to come here to work, IT SHOULD BE VERY EASY FOR YOU TO DO SO —
easy enough that you wouldn’t even think of crossing the border illegally, as the legal route would be just as simple.
...


Scott Walker Non-Committal on Immigration ( 0:53 ) by National Review

Let's keep LOSER Walker in his home state.
We don't need any more SELLOUTS in Washington D.C., and especially in the Oval Office!

[JoeFromSidney]

It’s much easier to move from engineering to business.

When I was a student at Purdue, one of the graffiti in the Engineering building was a formula that can be translated into English as: limit as GPA goes to zero of Engineer = Business.

[Unam Sanctam]

That strategy worked so well for Mitt.

[BobL]

“That strategy worked so well for Mitt.”

Agree, I’m not sure following the Rove formula is such a good idea, but most Republican candidates, and I guess Walker included, based on this article, trust Rove more than they trust the Republican base.

Disappointing.

[vmivol00]

Does anyone really need an anonymous advisor to tell them that????

Look at the data:

He was for amnesty before he was against it.

He has hired several pro-amnesty campaign staffers.

He is buddies with Reince Priebus.

He is endorsed by Grover Norquist and has been hosted by him.

He has mentioned Marco “Amnesty” Rubio as a running mate.

This guy is in the pocket of the Chamber.

Sure conservatives like the fact that he took it to the unions. That doesn’t make him a conservative necessarily. A lot of folks here don’t know how to distinguish a “corporatist” from a conservative.

He will disappoint the base on illegals. Guaranteed.

[vmivol00]

You confusing a corporatist agenda with a conservative agenda. There is some overlap. Walker is in the pocket of the Chamber.

As a county executive he supported amnesty. He will again.

You don’t get to be buddies with Grover Norquist without dancing for K Street and the Cheap Labor Express

[SoFloFreeper]

+1

2DV is a good supporter of Cruz. I like Cruz, too. For the last few months, I’ve sent Cruz money—wondering if Walker would truly get in.

Now that Walker is in, I am supporting him.

I will support the Republican nominee, even if it is an ugh RINO, but right now my primary support goes to Walker.

[krunkygirl]

He does not have my vote. Period.