Wisc. Governor Walker Hints He's Running For POTUS

TruthRevolt.org ^ | Jan. 7, 2015 | Jeff Dunetz

[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."

[Yashcheritsiy]

Sounds like you don’t like FReepers very much, so why are you here?

Oh, I like FReepers well enough. I've just learned over the years not to put too much stock in them.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Since he won reelection by six points in November, his aides have indicated he wants to continue lowering taxes, push to expand school choice, and replace the federal Common Core education standards.

That's all light-weight stuff he could have had passed and signed in the last month of the previous session.

He also will try to have food-stamp and unemployment benefit recipients undergo drug testing, in part so they can show employers they are capable of holding jobs.

(YAWN) He could probably get half the Democrat legislators to vote for that.

As of now, he doesn’t plan any new dramatic assaults on the public-employee unions whose power he curbed in 2011 legislation.

There it is. The most conservative WI legislature in a lifetime and he wants to squander it so that he will have an easier run at the White House. This is nothing more or less than political cowardice.

[TontoKowalski]

I'm not sure where you're finding disagreement with me concerning the Speaker vote.

Scott Walker didn't vote for Speaker, so I'm not sure why anyone would be PO'd at him over that vote.

My point is that people are outraged over House Republicans voting for Boner... so why isn't there similar outrage over Senate Republicans choosing McConnell?

I suspect... and I'm not directing this at you necessarily... the reason is that their favorite Senator may have supported McConnell... but if he did, he still gets a pass on the issue.

There seems to be some disdain for my contention that Walker is "viable" and "electable." I'm not sure why that is. You can be an attractive candidate to the "middle" and yet still be conservative.

I'm all for the most conservative candidate imaginable, but he better be a fit for the political "middle," too. Walker's weathering of the election trials in blue Wisconsin tell me that the guy is a winner. Furthermore, he's advanced a conservative agenda in unfriendly territory.

[KC_Conspirator]

For the most part in comparison with my views, probably. However, I like Walker and maybe one or two others. Sadly, I think who can fundraiser the most will win and it will be a weaker candidate.