Posted on 04/22/2015 12:33:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
During his initial debut, Scott Walker seemed to have a shaky grasp of national and international issues. Then again that wasn’t surprising since he had been busy with a tough fight in his own state. Before Walker had come out with the usual GOP expert class stuff.
Now Walker seems to be figuring out that the party needs a populist. That’s what he brought to the table in Wisconsin. And he’s infuriating all the right people......
The GOP expert class reacted to the heretical notion that American policy should benefit… Americans with a thorough freakout.........
Suggesting that immigration policy should be based on the US economy is the “extreme right?” It used to be the default position.
We get the usual preaching about free market principles by people who don’t seem to understand that any hope of some free market utopia will cease to exist the moment that the country has a permanent Democratic majority. For that matter we don’t have a free market. We never did. And the idea that America will prosper if we have limitless cheap labor and cheap votes should have been put to bed in the Obama era. You can have cheap labor or cheap votes, you can’t have both.
Scott Walker decided to talk past the expert class, the Koch Brothers and the Chamber of Commerce, to the concerns and challenges facing ordinary Americans. If he decides to keep doing that, he may well win. Full article
First and foremost, it is about preserving American culture and exceptionalism.
Number 2 is to stop the wholesale importation of Islamists.
Wages are a distant #3.
Both parties seem to have bought into the idea that a million immigrants per year combined with another million illegal immigrants per year is a boon for America.
Meanwhile we have more Americans out of work than at any time ever.
Conservatives who find the courage to actually oppose illegal immigration will try to take the sting out of it by proposing easier legal immigration. No one besides Walker and Santorum have questioned why we need to be importing people with half the country out of work already. Legal or not, until the country goes back to work, why are we bringing in people by the millions? How does that benefit the citizen?
Because immigration policy should always be designed to benefit the citizen. And it never is. No one ever asks the citizen what he wants, and good luck even finding out what the true numbers are. They will never ask you what the policy ought to be and they will never even tell you what it is if they can avoid it.
The article ends....
“Scott Walker decided to talk past the expert class, the Koch Brothers and the Chamber of Commerce, to the concerns and challenges facing ordinary Americans. If he decides to keep doing that, he may well win”...
Now doesn’t that sound just like a media push....it was about the same thing Hillary’s doing.....trying to say they are relating to the American people....in order to win.
I dont’ care if or not they “relate” to me....because they don’t....but they do know Americans enough to know what we want them to do and not do. So speak to those issues rather than play this “I want to be your friend” nonsense.
We need a President...not a friend.
Americans have been tasked to train their foreign replacements for a VERY LONG time.
It’s long past time to put the brakes on this.
...”No one besides Walker and Santorum have questioned why we need to be importing people”....
They likely know why...but rather than address that to the people it’s easier to play the games.
Our problems are not jobs, nor immigration, nor social issues.....the root of our problem is Washington politicians and all who operate within they’re gilded cage there.
...so I want to know just how any of these candidates expect to change THAT equation and be effective.....I’m NOT hearing that.
It’s not the source CW it’s the ‘equation’ of Washington and it’s complete lack of effectiveness in how it fails to operate for the good of this country and it’s people. It’s a self serving entity for all who go there.
If these candidates haven’t shown how they have stood against Washington....then what exactly is going to change other then the seat they’ll be sitting in?
You can’t nit pic anything if that’s your aim.
Walker has proven himself as an effective governor in Wisconsin.
He has filed and joined lawsuits against D.C. dictates, fought activist judges in WI; Walker is the only governor to ever survive a recall election. He was reelected by a wider margin than in his first election.
He’s lowered taxes while working to fix Wisconsin’s financial mess brought on by years of liberal blood sucking off the land. There’s much more if anyone bothers to know what he’s done. I’ve certainly posted a lot of it. Now posters are coming back demanding to have it all spoon fed to them again.
Then, yesterday there was a poster on another thread that said they didn’t care what he’d done in Wisconsin - classic Alinsky, wack-a-mole, turning the page to deflect from the fact that Gov. Scott Walker looks pretty darn good on paper and in action.
Beyond that, there are the real fringe posters making the rounds here, and on other sites, demanding to know why Walker “ALLOWED” the Democrat DA and prosecutor in WI go after innocent citizens - stating that they haven’t read the background but ready set up a straw man to campaign against him.
I have faith that Scott Walker will come out right on immigration. Hes the most electable “populist” type Republican and will do the right thing. Ted Cruz is great but too soon. Walker has that executive experience and is battle tested.
So I am with Scott until proven otherwise. I am not politically naive and know I might be disappointed. But so far so good with Walker
You’re right.
But it didn't pan out that way.
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” In an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Monday, the Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he isn’t troubled by poll numbers showing him trailing Hillary Clinton in the Badger state, saying past history shows he’ll come out victorious in the end.....
“Polls are important snapshots, but in the end the only one that matters is on election day,” Walker said. “We’ve proven three times in four years in a state that hasn’t gone Republican for president that we can win by talking about transferring power from the big government special interest to the hard working taxpayers, and that’ll happen again here.” Source
Amen to all three points...
With you.
The US cannot be saved unless the work ethic is re-established, state's rights and the Constitution again are our guiding paths, and our culture and way of life are restored. All of that depends on stopping and reversing the US being over-run by non-citizens, legal and illegal.
So join the firing squad - the circle starts over there.
What you hear or don't hear is fine but pretty irrelevant - it's what you do to try to rectify the situation (other than trashing any potential candidate on our side to make it easier for the other side) by donations and volunteering and some actual activism.
I like the fact that Walker buys clothes at Kohls and wears off the rack suits {when I was selling computers, my suits were tailor made, they look better} but most Americans today, don't wear suits and can't tell the difference between Joseph A. Banks and Armani.
Walker is truly the "common man" as was Lincoln.
Walker’s credibility problems:
1. Flipping & Flopping on amnesty (aka “pathway”)
2. Closed door meeting with Chamber of Commerce amnesty pushers
Walker cannot be trusted. Period!
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