Posted on 02/27/2015 12:08:09 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Scott Walker as a political performer is pretty uninspiring. He doesn't have George Bush's pretzel-mouthed Texas charm or Sarah Palin's hockey Mom magnetism. He can't fall back on an ethnic American dream parable like the one Marco Rubio can run on. He's just a doughy, finger-pointing white guy of the type the Republican Party has been churning out to fill state assembly seats or run in back-bench congressional districts seemingly since the beginning of time. He's exactly the kind of politician the modern Democratic Party is set up to beat...."
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Walker couldn’t even show up for a Tea Party rally held outside the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison during the 2011 union thug protests. At least he could have waved at us through a window...
I know Cruz would have stood proudly next to Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart, Lloyd Marcus, and other conservative heroes on the stage.
Yes, Cruz for 2016!
So, does that make Obama a typical finger wagging black African colonial dictator?
and lies about rape victims!
When the RS has to resort to praising W and Palin, you know they’re desperate.
Matty is SCARED of Scott!!! GO SCOTT!!! Notice they aren’t saying these things about JEB.
Hi Newbie.
Welcome to FR.
Running around finding all the Walker threads to bash him?
Never thought about doing that. My political interests are in seeing Cruz elected, and while I enjoy reading the normal, everyday articles about life in America or the World, I gravitate towards political articles, and with the increased postings about Walker, especially by you, I guess that by chance I’m interacting more with anti-Cruz opponents, by commenting my particular viewpoint on those Walker threads. I’m definitely not advocating for net neutrality, whereby everybody deserves a fair chance to be heard, but instead I’m desirous for the opportunity to present an opposing stance that can be reasonably critiqued, analyzed, and acted upon. Since I’m a Sconnie, former-Walker voter, and Tea Party conservative, I have a valuable insight into what a person from other states should expect if Walker is elected President. But, hey, opinions are like hearts, right?, everyone has one, well, except bleeding-butt liberals... :)
No one is coronating Walker. What has happened is that the media tried a few "gotcha" questions, and he handled them much better than we usually expect from GOP candidates. Then the media got a whiny because Walker didn't play their game, and tried to hammer him with it anyway.
What this has done is make a lot of people more familiar with Walker, and a lot of them like what they see so far. And those who check a little bit further and see what he has accomplished in Wisconsin are even more impressed.
So yes, Walker is enjoying a bit of a boomlet in popularity right now. Whether that persists will be determined by how well he handles himself going forward, as well as by what people hear when he starts getting more specific about his positions on important national issues.
I am not a "Walker fan" or a "Cruz fan" or a "Perry fan" or even a "Palin fan" (okay, I lied about that one!). I think there are some good candidates in the field that have the ability to beat the pantsuits of Hillary, and right now I want to hear from each of them and see what they have to offer. I just don't understand the tendency of so many conservatives who are ready to tear down every candidate other than their own before the campaign even gets going.
People need to realize - with this many people in the race, there may be up to a 90% chance that the one candidate you like best right now won't be the one nominated. So find the candidate you like best and support him or her vigorously. Just keep your eyes open and try to find other candidates that you can still support if your preferred candidate get eliminated early.
Of course I realize there are potential candidates that some of you cannot support under any circumstances, and I respect that. But some of the people on this forum make it sounds like if ANYONE other than their preferred candidate is nominated, they will sit out the election. That may be the best choice in some cases (Christie, Bush, maybe one or two others), but it cant be the best choice in every case...
We’ll tie Taibbi to a chair and strap the lie-detector kit on him. Then we’ll put a gun to his head and ask him if he loves or hates America. If he lies, we pull the trigger. What do you think Matt will say?
>>Scott Walker had no campaign against teachers. He was against union bosses forcibly taking money from teachers and ripping them off.<<
That’s not entirely accurate, and in any case the teachers perceived it as a campaign against them.
That’s because one of the provisions in ACT 10 restored, by law, the requirement that teachers immediately pay 1/2 of the annual pension contribution. Initially, teachers paid half and the school district paid half, an employer match if you will.
But over the years, unions negotiated the teachers half away and school districts agreed to pay the teachers share along with their own. To be fair to the teachers position, they had done so in negotiations agreed to by both sides. In other words, they probably gave up something to get the districts to pay their half.
Well, Act 10, in one fell swoop, restored the teachers’ obligation to pay their half of the pension cost, that year and thereafter, non-negotiable. The effect was a pretty significant pay cut (on the order of 4-5%) in the next school year. And that is why teachers, and many of their extended families, resent Walker so much.
Act 10 accomplished much in getting public-sector unions under control again, but that particular aspect of it generated a lot of ill will and is the main reason for the divisiveness today. That’s also why the protests were so huge at the time. Compare that to the present ones, for example, which are relatively small even though the Right to Work legislation will likely cut private union power significantly.
Now, I would add that I sought to inform many voters about the above facts at the time (just out of a sense of fairness, because so many were misinformed), but my explanation generally fell on deaf ears. That was, I believe, because most voters felt that teachers’ benefits were far too generous. And that was hard to argue with, for they were. It was just a divisive way to get them reduced, but maybe it was also the only way.
Walker has the left lying at breakneck speed. Its hilarious.
Every two years, like clockwork. I wonder which retreat this one is?
I detect some flop sweat upon the bodies of the little libtards.
That looks like Tony Dinozo from NCIS...in his younger years. LOL!
What on earth are “cankles”? Regarding a thin Democrat bench, I have been seeing a lot of Kerry on TV lately. Does that mean anything?
Her legs? = calves-ankles.
Kerry on TV a lot means nothing as far as 2016 is concerned. He had his "did you know I served in Vietnam?" moment already and lost. His performance as Secretary of State so far is a great indication that you don't want that guy anywhere close to the White House as President. He is a far-left, dim-witted, all-talk-and-no-do, rich gold-digger, anti-American, former Senator, who would never make a good manager or leader. He is just an all-white bread version of Obama.
Exactly, which is why he lost when he ran for Milwaukee County (67% Obama in 2012) Executive and later Governor of Wisconsin (carried by the the rat POTUS candidates since 1988). Oh wait, didn't he win those? But he was recalled right? No? Oh. Hmm.
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