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."
Who cares? Walker, and all GOPers that run will follow the leftwing playbook of slamming Conservatives. (as he did with the so-called gov shutdown)
Conservatives will deny the GOP the Presidency in 2016.
I am anxious to hear more from Walker on immigration because there is room for a reasonable compromise on this issue. The crap coming out of DC isn’t even close to it, but there is room to really put an enforcement and employee verification reform in place in exchange for an aggressive work visa program open to illegals. The goal is to stop the problem and deal with the existing people here in a viable way. The non-enforcement and blind eye approach now is not sustainable and will destroy us, as will anything providing citizenship and opening the flood gates
——I agree, we need to make sure the press and D’s like our candidate first before we support them.——
The press and dems will hate our candidate no matter who they are...
Our candidate need to be about to connect with the mushy middle voters...
SP is radioactive...Though no fault of her own ....
Any minute now the challenges to his ideological purity will start.
Actually, they started before I responded!
Obama was a senator, Reagan was a governor. Your move
Fidelity to ideas is preferable to loyalty to a person.
Bounties work, and should be used against terrorists as well, as equivalent to a Constitutional letter of marque (which is how the Second Amendment militia was supposed to work). If bounties could extirpate the passenger pigeon, they can cleanse the nation of illegals, and fast.
he’s got our votes....
Could we get a warrior for a change?
Already have....what everyone here wants is Ted Cruz because dammit, he says everything they want to hear. One big problem with an ideological purist who has never held an executive branch political position is he's likely unelectable.
I like Cruz just fine, but how will he make things happen among a highly politically charged congress that he's already alienated?
It's easy to be a minority party back bencher who complains about things and never has to take a difficult vote.....just ask Barack Obama. The difference is all Democrats rally to their candidate, while Republicans like to nitpick the shit out of them.
Agreed. But too many of us are willing to jettison a candidate with whom we agree 90%, and unless it's a question of abortion or the Constitution, that's not helpful.
Governors know how to make things happen...
She would be great head of Dept. of energy or any other agency. Wouldn’t it make heads explode if she was President Walker’s chief of staff?
You can already begin to see the smears going towards any potential Republican candidate not named "Cruz."
Not that I've got anything against the guy, other than I don't believe he's our best bet.
I have a gut feeling that FR is going to turn into a primary campaign site for a single candidate.
The real unfortunate part is....that we only HAVE one good candidate. If your not disgusted with what happened yesterday, then I don’t know what to say.
Will be status quo on immigration with him...
I'd love to see Sarah Palin as COS. Other than the Supreme Court, this is probably the most powerful un-elected position available. Palin could do a lot of good in this position.
Those are Obama’s positions. Yours too?
In post #18, you wondered what Walker's position on amnesty might be. By post #40, you'd come up with the above.
And managed to toss in a childish inference that I embrace Obama.
You're a pretty quick study.
By the way, the likelihood of over the top rhetoric is one reason I question Cruz's chances.
He doesn't just play along to keep the peace. He put his convictions into actions, and they yielded results.
Honest question, because I sincerely don't know the answer. Did Cruz support McConnell as Majority Leader?
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