Posted on 01/07/2015 9:48:51 AM PST by Rennes Templar
As a guest on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday evening, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker strongly suggested that he will be a candidate for president in 2016, "I feel that there’s a reason God put me in a spot to do the things that we’ve done and take on the kind of challenges we’ve done."
Governor Walker is considered by some a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He is a Midwestern governor in a blue state who has taken on the unions and thanks to a recall election has won three elections in four years, so it was logical for Hewitt to ask Walker his intentions:
Hewitt: Now let me ask you the key question for the national audience, Governor. I want to talk about Wisconsin, but people want to know. Have you ruled out a run in 2016?
Walker: Oh, absolutely not. I mean, it’s one of those where I very much believe that our next president should be a governor. And I think you look at the mess in Washington, and you realize we need leaders from outside of our nation’s capital, and we need people who have been successful. And I think with what I’ve had to go through in the last four years, both politically, but also in terms of the policies, certainly I feel that there’s a reason God put me in a spot to do the things that we’ve done and take on the kind of challenges we’ve done. And it’s certainly something I’m going to take seriously, and really look at it closely over the next month or two.
Hewitt: When do you think you have to decide by, Governor Walker?
Walker: I think any candidate that’s going to be serious, by mid-year in 2015, has to be in the race. I mean, I just was sworn in yesterday. Next week, I’m going to give my state of the state. By the beginning of next month, I’ll have given my budget address, introduce our next two year budget, which will continue lowering property taxes, expanding school choice, lowering the size of government, reducing the number of state employees, lowering out debt, doing all the things that you’d expect a good common sense conservative to do. And once we’ve done that, I think it puts me in a perfect position to see if this is the right calling.
When a potential candidate says "there's a reason God put me in the spot...to take on the kind of challenges we've done" it's a loud hint that he will be running. On Sunday evening another potential GOP candidate Mike Huckabee brought up God to hint at his own run, saying, "But I also realize that God hasn't put me on earth just to have a good time."
Wasn't Pence the guy who said we should declare a "truce" on social issues?
Nope. That was his predecessor.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/10/mitch-daniels-we-need-a-truce-on-social-issues-to-concentrate-on-our-fiscal-crisis/
And Walker is the best, most conservative Governor who has proven he can win in a “purple state” despite exceptional opposition. He has a track record, not just an ideology.
Here is our Gov on that very question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDJizjZqao
However, don’t we in fact, have full on amnesty already? Pen & phone amnesty? The last congress made noise here and there about illegal immigration, but really nothing serious has come or will come from them. I’d vote for Walker, or any conservative for the executive. With this Congress I have no hope that they will enact laws that will overturn the downward slide. Even if such a future animal as a conservative congress appears it has been so long delayed that we’ll all be in our graves before anything good could come from it - were it to suddenly appear.
He is crappy on amnesty. The only thing holding him back. However, he is damn good on almost everything else. Plus he is battle tested, being targeted for death by the democrats 3 times in 6 years, and he has beat them every time.
Carter was great wasn’t he
Now here is somebody worthy of votes.
Please, governor, we are ready for you!
“No Repub out there is more battle-tested than Walker”
Yep.
And more importantly, none can boast of anything near what he has accomplished.
All true, but what is his position on amnesty and PPACA?
Amnesty is not #1 issue with me.
Obamacare, federal overreach in the bureaucratic and judicial branches (state laws being overturned on marriage and school choice for example), SCOTUS, and jobs are ahead of immigration for me.
Of course immigration does touch on many of those topics.....the Arizona enforcement law comes to mind.
To be honest, I am not sure.
Going forward he will have to stake out his stance on these issues.
Looking back upon what he has accomplished I will at least hear him out — more than I can say about some other governors
Oh, boy, as you just said. But there is a small twist. He once said something that a FReeper misinterpreted, then misrepresented. . .
Young. Smart. Bold. Accomplished. Likeable. Electable.
After what he's done in a Blue State, no one can accuse him of "going along to get along," which is especially notable in view of yesterday's collapse in the Speaker's race.
I'm not particularly bothered that he might not pass every Freeper's "purity test" on a single issue.
I damn sure wouldn't.
Walker is weak on amnesty, he has provided NO support to Ted against Obamacare and in defending the Constitution, he is great pals with GOPe sellouts (Priebus, Ryan, Rove, and Romney), and he is loose with campaign promises he does not fulfill.
With all due respect...SP is death to a POTUS ticket...
I agree, we need to make sure the press and D’s like our candidate first before we support them.
Although I have been a Scott Walker supporter for over ten years, I am starting to question whether he is ready to be president. His recent statements undermining our rare Republican super-majorities here in Wisconsin from passing anything conservative is very worrisome. We have everything in place to pass right-to-work, stand-your-ground, meaningful tax cuts, real educational vouchers, and other conservative legislation but Governor Walker is saying that he doesn’t want the controversy. A true ideological conservative would further the conservative agenda whenever possible (”make hay when the sun is shining”) and certainly not make that secondary to his own career ambitions. It is becoming apparent that the credit for much of what was accomplished in his first term may have been due more to a conservative legislature than his leadership. I hope that I am wrong about this, but I am afraid that Governor Scott Walker just isn’t ready for prime-time.
So a candidate who is “electable” and pro-amnesty, wants “single-payer” health care, and wants federal control of all police, is who we should back? That these issues are “purity tests”?
Those are Obama’s positions. Yours too?
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