Posted on 01/29/2015 5:09:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hear, hear!
There are 48 other states to choose from. It doesn't have to be a Texan.
He needs to clear up his position on immigration, at one point he said he said nothing about giving anyone citizenship. This is what we will find out in the debates. He seemed to say something about farms needing laborers too. We’ll have to see. In the end, it may not be that different of a stance as what those who would grant temporary legal residency which sounds like it could become permanent.
He and Wisconsin Republicans have defunded planned parenthood, they’ve closed clinics, he signed the ultra-sound bill as well.
I’ll say what I have in a few threads, whomever is elected, no Republican has won the Presidency without Ohio. So Ohio and other swing-states is important. So, for me, that needs to be dealt with.
Oh, and back to the article, general note, Walker has won THREE, 3 times running for Governor since they tried to recall him. I think the article says he’s won two times.
No, Scott Walker is not an anti-Semite.
oh what a vile insult...
The peanut farmer never had to win a state-wide recall election either.
Why not a Cruz VP candidacy? For VP candidate you want an attack dog, and Cruz can do. Once ensconced as VP, by prior agreement he gets the first SCOTUS judgeship that opens up. Cruz can do, again.
Gee... Let’s have the Democrats choose our candidate!
Furthermore, Scott Walker is no Jew hating megalomaniac, so he can't be compared to Carter.
Is Scott Walker the Republican’s Jimmy Carter?, irish guard wrote:
Hellofa headline. Accuse a conservative of being a republican Jimmy Carter and never bother to mention Carter in the text of the story, nor draw any parallels. What a shitty story. Not your fault the headline of the story is crap.
Many publications have caption and headline writers, was one once myself. Looks like at the NY Observer, the governor and Lincoln Mitchell doesn’t have many friends.
Please tell me you are just posting this and not believing it!
Walker may be a lot of things but a whishy washy pubby he is not.
Right now the left sees him as the one who is most likely to defeat a know-nothing, never done anything, coulda-been such as billary.
The left does this all the time to everyone who could possibly derail their idea of who should be the next leader.
Look at what they did the last two elections! They elected the worst possible person for a job he was never qualified for.
Can Teacher Foe Scott Walker School GOP Presidential Candidates......so 2ndDivisionVet.......what's up with you changing the title?
PLEASE never use the names Scott Walker and Jimmy Carter in the same paragraph....there are certain contageous things you know.
Looks like something like the title of the thread is in the URL:
http://observer.com/2015/01/is-scott-walker-the-republicans-jimmy-carter/
Maybe they changed the headline at the Observer.
In the News/Activism forum, To which I confessed to being a headline and caption writer as one of my assignments while employed at a nationally circulated publication and suggested someone else composed the headline to the opus written by Mitchell of the NY Observer posted by 2nd div vet
on a thread titled Is Scott Walker the Republican’s Jimmy Carter?, irish guard wrote:
Shame on me....I never clicked the link to see the true title of the article.
Can Teacher Foe Scott Walker School GOP Presidential Candidates......so 2ndDivisionVet.......what’s up with you changing the title?
To which I agree; “Splain yourself”
Scott Walker would make a great President for many reasons.
The reason that I want to mention is character.
The man stands up and does what he says he will do. He sticks with it when the going gets tough - really tough.
I heard him speak before, and he comes across as a well-grounded, regular guy - not the kind of egomaniac or phony that is so common in politics.
His demeanor is calm and reasonable - a matter of fact Midwesterner, kind of like a Boy Scout. No sputtering anger or vitriol, no craven posturing. Rather than a happy warrior, he seems like a calm, committed warrior, who doesn’t give up, but doesn’t get nasty about it. So perhaps this reflects more on his temperament rather than character, but his character as well as his temperament have been thoroughly tested. His actions under fire show that the man has backbone.
For VP, traditionally the pick is either to help you get elected, by carrying a certain state, region or demographic; or to help you govern, by filling a gap in experience.
Cheney and Biden were both supposed to strengthen the foreign policy experience of the ticket. Most Governors (and therefor most Presidential candidates) don’t have much of a foreign policy background. Petraeus would have been awesome for this, so they assassinated him politically.
The VP is also President of the Senate, so Cruz could assist the administration in shepherding legislation and budgets, as well as general brainpower. He would also make an outstanding Supreme Court Justice.
Picking Jeb Bush as as VP would bring a fundraising and organizational windfall for the campaign, but could sow the seeds for being undercut in his future reform attempts, by bringing lots of Bush folks into the administration. But maybe Walker/Bush wouldn’t sound bad to those used to hearing the name George Herbert Walker Bush.
It will depend on how the public responds to the candidates during the primaries - their stock will rise and fall quite a bit, and with it, their negotiating leverage. VP picks rarely firm up before the end of the primaries.
Successful Governors are historically the most likely to win the candidacy.
That is the dumbest headline I have ever seen. More of a troll than a tease.
One thing to remember is that illegal immigration is not as much of a hot button issue in Wisconsin. There aren’t that many relative to the population, most keep a low profile.
Wisconsin isn’t Texas, Arizona, N.M. or California. I’ve never known immigration to be something anyone used as a voting issue in Wisconsin.
I’ve known Walker for more than 20 years. His first house with Tonette was three blocks from the house I grew up in and he still lives less than a mile away. He may be a polarizing figure, but from experience, I believe he really wants the best for his family, state and nation.
Wisconsin joined in that lawsuit against the amnesty executive order of which I’m glad of. I only said what I did because some people really take issue and I think his view is not, at the least, clear from the articles that are posted. As I said, come the debates and if all of these people are running, we will find out more.
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