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Here Comes Trouble For Scott Walker
Daily Caller ^ | W. James Antle III

Posted on 04/13/2015 11:47:23 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

"........The Wisconsin governor leads in the latest Fox News poll..,leads in most Iowa polling and is either tied or ahead in New Hampshire.

Even with Paul,Cruz,Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee all at or near double digits,Walker is within 1.2 percentage points of Bush in the RealClearPolitics polling average.And even that is mainly attributable to an ABC News/Washington Post poll that has Bush up by a bigger margin than any other recent survey.

Since his announcement,Cruz has been pretty consistently been polling in the double digits.PublicPolicyPolling found his national support exploding from 5 percent to 16 percent.

What if that happens to Rubio and Paul too?At some point,it has to start eating into Walker’s base...

[SNIP]

...Walker is a governor,and for some Republican voters who have take the criticism of Barack Obama’s “community organizer” past seriously,that’s going to count for something.He can argue that his three tea party upstarts are simply a debating society.

Just as important,for the moment Walker is beating Bush.You don’t have to engage in total wishful thinking to think he might be a credible general election candidate.

Conservatives have been hungry for that.Not since Ronald Reagan has one of their own become president. Most years,conservatives have to decide between their principles and throwing away the presidency on a Michele Bachmann type who can’t win.

You know in your heart who’s right,but you know in your gut who can win.

That’s going to be a hard thing to beat.It’s an all-or-nothing proposition,however.If at some point Walker no longer looks like he can beat Bush or that he is not as strong of a Hillary opponent as Rubio or Paul,he is in trouble.

Conservatives might be in trouble too.The only way Jeb Bush can win the nomination is if conservatives fracture.What’s made this season different is that so far they haven’t. But the primary season is still young.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; cruz; deepbench; gopprimary; hillary; paul; rubio; walker; wisconsin
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To: Lakeshark
More to the crux of the matter - the low information electorate was "kept in the dark" from the manipulation of and the "yawn" from the state media.

We're not going to let them get away from that.

21 posted on 04/14/2015 12:34:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I KNOW! You’ve got me rolling on the floor! Hilarious!

Can’t wait for the media to debut that one. HA!


22 posted on 04/14/2015 12:36:51 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Lakeshark; All
Our target:

Rush: Millennials Must Be Taught About the Hillary Clinton of the 1990s

23 posted on 04/14/2015 12:38:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Lakeshark; RitaOK

A bad omen for 2016: Why Bill Kristol’s attack on Hillary Clinton should worry Democrats
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/13/a_bad_omen_for_2016_why_bill_kristols_attack_on_hillary_clinton_should_worry_democrats/


24 posted on 04/14/2015 12:38:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: RitaOK
Our problem is we had no good candidates last time (I supported Newt, he would have been destroyed if he had won. Too bi-polar, too much baggage). Absolutely not a one was any good.

This time we have two very good candidates, along with a host of other decent ones, along with a few horrid ones (Jeb, etc.) that the MSM will let suck oxygen out of the room of the two best ones.

We need a plan for the fracturing of the nomination with all these running.......15% for Jeb while Walker, and Cruz get 14%, and five others get 10% is a disaster......

25 posted on 04/14/2015 12:40:13 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s a b#tch.

That’s a good thing for us.


26 posted on 04/14/2015 12:42:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; 2ndDivisionVet; RitaOK

Check this out. SNL NEVER ONCE did anything like this to the bamster. Not once (although he deserved it). This is how bad a candidate she is, and why we can’t allow Jeb to walk through with 15% of the vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdNYXMQoy8


27 posted on 04/14/2015 12:43:08 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

I watched that last night on O’Reilly. It is very, very good.

Currently at your YouTube link: 1,688,300 views [with lots of thumbs up].


28 posted on 04/14/2015 12:48:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This lady is so mock-able. So not photogenic. When her voice is normal, she puts you to sleep. When her voice is raised she sounds something between the wicked witch of the West and fingernails on a chalkboard.

She is cruising for multiple SNL skits.

It's why we have to NOT put the only candidate up she can lose to, the Jebster.

29 posted on 04/14/2015 12:54:32 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, Andrea Mitchell was on a side column under a quote saying that, “Hillary is using all the media”.

These dinners Podesta is serving up are all about bringing *in* the media to tell them the media is *out*, basically. LOL! The campaign will only allow “pool reporting” (where did we see that development before)of chosen reporters from various media and no one else. After all, he explains, Hillary will be in small, private venues— homes and such.

Message control and Hillary smiles in a vacuum is all we’re going to get. (Or she tanks fast. ) Anyway, the media is mulling this over, deciding how they are going to react.

Remember when Obama White House got in hot water with WH correspondents for blocking all their photographers, other than the single one selected to do all photos all the time.


30 posted on 04/14/2015 12:58:56 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RitaOK

Hillary likes Reuters’ photo coverage.

http://townhall.com/tags/hillary-clinton/photos/page/589


31 posted on 04/14/2015 1:04:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Lakeshark

I agree, and always wished we had, in the primary, a week certain to come together around the leading conservative. It’s way down the road, in a sense, or, unless Bush takes off somehow in the primary polls.

I think Bush is running a general election campaign now, which will NOT sell in the primary. With us having several bright conservative candidates who can chew gum, I don’t see how he can hope to advance in the primary at all.


32 posted on 04/14/2015 1:06:56 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Lakeshark
This lady is so mock-able. So not photogenic. When her voice is normal, she puts you to sleep. When her voice is raised she sounds something between the wicked witch of the West and fingernails on a chalkboard.

She is cruising for multiple SNL skits.

All very true!

Can she win the 'Rat nomination before the above reality dawns on the 'Rats?

And whom will they nominate if they figure it out in time?

33 posted on 04/14/2015 1:09:32 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“That’s going to be a hard thing to beat.It’s an all-or-nothing proposition,however.If at some point Walker no longer looks like he can beat Bush or that he is not as strong of a Hillary opponent as Rubio or Paul,he is in trouble”

If Bush gets the nomination, I am convinced we lose. Rubio is too milquetoast, and Paul has far too much baggage.

Walker or Cruz.

My heart says Cruz, but I think Walker has the best chance of winning. That’s just my $0.02.


34 posted on 04/14/2015 1:39:35 AM PDT by some tech guy (Stop trying to help, Obama)
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To: some tech guy

“My heart says Cruz, but I think Walker has the best chance of winning. That’s just my $0.02.”

I agree. My heart and ideology are most aligned with Cruz, but for me, Walker comes in a VERY close second. Scott Walker is the most electorally battle-tested of all the candidates. He’s been through wars against the left, and has emerged victorious every time, and along the way has amassed a formidable record as governor.

Both Walker and Cruz are plenty deft enough to avoid traps set by the “media.” The journos thought they’d ensnared Walker a couple times early on, but it came to nothing. Both men are outstanding communicators who don’t need a podium for anything other than a place to set their water from time to time, and I’ve never seen either use a teleprompter. I’d be quite happy with either one as nominee.


35 posted on 04/14/2015 2:02:17 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Hillary is nothing more than a white, wrinkled form of Obama in pants.)
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To: ScottinVA
Scott Walker has NO CHANCE of winning.
He and all the rest of the "PRO-AMNESTY" SELL OUTS to the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS", can't muster votes from the BASE.

LOSERS !
36 posted on 04/14/2015 2:11:13 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

You shouldn’t drink so much coffee so early in the a.m.

;-)


37 posted on 04/14/2015 2:15:01 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Hillary is nothing more than a white, wrinkled form of Obama in pants.)
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To: ScottinVA
I quote Scott Walker and his PRO-AMNESTY position:
38 posted on 04/14/2015 2:17:24 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest
January 3, 2011 - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.

June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...

39 posted on 04/14/2015 2:18:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Yosemitest

“Gov. Walker’s spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski says that report is wrong:

“We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/26/scott-walker-camp-disputes-wsj-story-insists-gov-does-not-support-amnesty/


“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2015/03/28/walker-denies-reversing-position-illegal-immigrati/


40 posted on 04/14/2015 2:31:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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