Posted on 01/23/2015 1:18:13 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is adding a veteran GOP strategist and Iowa expert to his political team as the Wisconsin Republican considers a possible 2016 presidential bid.
The addition of David Polyansky gives Walker's team a big dose of Iowa experience. The strategist helped engineer former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's win in the 2008 Iowa Republican caucuses and also served as deputy campaign manager for former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who won the 2011 Iowa straw poll.
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I don’t let ‘em get away with nothing. My comments about it are out in the press.
I think you're WAY underselling the unrepresentative nature of the monster that has been created.
Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid of Governor Walker.
Walker is a winner, one of if not he best Governors, won 3 times in a marginally democrat state that hasn’t voted GOP for POTUS since 1984, kicked the heart and soul of the left, the labor unions, right in the balls. How insane to consider nominating for President, he might win and then what would we have to whine about?
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Walker is a winner, one of if not the best Governor in the country, won 3 times in a marginally democrat state that hasn’t voted GOP for POTUS since 1984, kicked the heart and soul of the left, the labor unions, right in the balls. How insane to consider nominating him for President, he might win, and then what would we have to whine about?
Awesome! We’re completely finished.
Sure, there are many out there that talk good rhetoric. But Scott Walker is the only one I have seen that is actually pushing forth a plan to drug test food stamp recipients. He is the only one who has taken on the unions head on. And he is the only one who has not wavered.
That is actually pretty good criteria. And both Cruz and Walker have rabidly pissed off hundreds of thousands of liberals. Jeb Bush? Mitt Romney? Chris Christie? Not so much.
Walker seems like a nice guy - I was actually an early proponent of him running for the top job, probably still am.
However, recently he has been wobbly on too many issues of concern. Conservatives have been sidelined and thrown under the bus too many times by the caving repubs. If conservatives go only with people who have been declared by liberals as "being able to win", conservatives will win nothing.
The best all round conservative is Ted Cruz - fiscal, social, libertarian. He does not kowtow to GOPe leadership, the chamber of cronies, or the liberals.
Ted Cruz is very smart, articulate, and has personal charisma. He is able to deal with the national liberal media and the democrats.
With Ted, conservatives don't have to be worried about being thrown under the bus. He will move the needle for conservatism. Everything else is fluff. Party labels don't mean much.
I think Walker has been great for the state of Wisconsin, and believe me, it must be hard governing from Madison. But he is a weak presidential candidate. As you mentioned, Immigration, Open Border, Right to Work, the Gay Marriage fight etc. Also, killing a casino deal with Hard Rock that would have brought in millions in taxes and millions in revenue from our southern border. Not to mention the jobs to Southeastern Wisconsin which is hurting tremendously. And the Menomonee Tribe which would have reaped the benefits of the new casino, is the poorest tribe in Wisconsin. This decision has been on hold for years. I know people who have sold their homes because they didn’t want to live near the new casino. Personally I don’t care one way or another. It wouldn’t affect me here in Northern Wisconsin. It’s the fact that he kicked the decision down the road until after the governor election, wasted time and money on an advisory board and then the day before Iowa Freedom Summit he decided NO. Coincidence? I think not. Gotta look socially conservative when going to Iowa. He dragged his heels for years!! If he cant make a simple decision like this, what’s going to happen with the big ones?
” Scott Walker took the side of the GOP-E in that fight”
And on too many other fights, like immigration. Go home, Walker!
I just watched him at the Des Moines event. I will say this, he’s slick.
I’m sure he is slick, because he beat the unions, and all of their money. But people like this leave a trail of their advocacy. The internet is a terrible thing to waste : )
Yup.
I guess that brings us to the question of what you are going to do for Cruz’s campaign specifically? Headed to Nevada for some organizing?
Walker thinks Christie and Jeb are okay and Cruz, Rand and Lee are weak candidates.
Walker didn’t specifically say swing districts. He is just concerned with the number of R’s.
Half the new Congress members voted for amnesty. What difference does it make if Boehner has 240 or 250 members. It’s worse now as he needs less conservative support.
Walker hasn’t spoken out of Jeb or Christie being big government RINOs.
Walker said Cruz, Lee and Rand are unelectable so pick one of the governors. He didn’t even say it had to be conservative.
Conservative firebrand Glenn Grothman narrowly won a primary and whoever won the primary was beating the Dem by 12-20 points. Grothman didn’t have kind words for the retiring congressman.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119214/republicans-shift-wisconsins-6th-district-petri-grothman
In SC, Lindsey Graham won by 15 points and conservative Tim Scott won by 20 points.
Does Walker think the Tea Party candidate was going to be more crazy than Graham?
“Walker’s right. It’s a big tent and it’s stupid to shoot ourselves in the foot. We’re a minority.”
RINOs are worse than democrats because they obfuscate what conservatism is. I believe the founding fathers were in a minority at one time, with many afraid to make the British mad and upset whatever they were gaining from them. But since the benefits were much less back then, many switched. Sadly, the liberals of both parties are gaining financially from milking this country.
Ha, that was good!
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