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."
Pence.
Good, I like Cruz and a few others but I’ll always have a preference for a candidate with executive experience. Governors are generally better presidential material than are senators, IMHO.
Rather have cruz but he is second on my list of the current crop.
Based on what I know now, I hope he runs and picks SP for his running mate. Having said that, I will have to know a lot more about him before I would actually support him for POTUS.
Walker has won in a Democrat state. Three elections in six years. And these haven't been "sleeper" elections: he was TARGETED FOR DESTRUCTION by Demon Rats.
He is 47 years young.
I hope he does run, and suck all the money away from Jeb "let me start my campaign in Connecticut" Bush.
Walker and Pence at the at top of my list, along with Cruz. I definitely want to see Walker on the stump before getting on board. Running for president is about media performance first and foremost.
After all he’s been through and all he has accomplished, I would have to agree with you.
With all due respect...SP is death to a POTUS ticket...
Don’t take that the wrong way...Sarah Palin would make a great VP...
But she is unelectable...the women has been so demonized and marginalized...she would kill any GOP.ticket...
Ask any apolitical person you know for their opinion of her and see what they say....
I agree with you.
“...Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker strongly suggested that he will be a candidate for president in 2016...”
Cruz fan here, but I’m listening.
I couldn’t agree more. Your use of the word “apolitical” is right on the mark. Most people who vote are apolitical.
How is Walker on amnesty?
A battle-hardened fiscally responsible conservative WITH a backbone and NO skeletons-in-the-closet.
If the left had anything on Walker, it would have come out by now.
I would enthusiastically support Walker. If Walker can win Wisconsin, he wins the election. And he’s proven that he can win Wisconsin.
No Repub out there is more battle-tested than Walker. Let’s see Hillary or any other leading dem try to match up their list of .. ahem.. “accomplishments” against Walker’s record.
Some also decry Walker’s purported lack of “charisma,” but apparently they haven’t seen his victory speech from 4 Nov. He was dynamic, solid and visionary.
I would prefer a cool-headed President with a proven administrative record like Pence with a rhetorical master like Cruz taking as Senate Majority Leader.
Walker is a non-starter with me. Although he is courageous and principled, he's an open borders guy compared to Pence.
I agree... Palin would be a fine VP, but the “media” did too much of a trash job on her and she’s unelectable. Besides, there’s better talent out there to pick from.
Amnesty is #1 issue. I’d like to know what Walker’s position is.
No way. Scott Walker once said something a FReeper didn’t like, so that makes him a RINO who no red-blooded, God-fearing patriotic Amurrikan could ever support.
On the immigration issue, you’re right on Pence... he definitely has a winning attitude about it.
http://www.ontheissues.org/in/Mike_Pence_Immigration.htm
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