Posted on 04/22/2015 6:24:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s new populist pro-American worker position on immigration is “absolutely the winning hand” ... GOP pollster KellyAnne Conway of The Polling Company told Breitbart News ... Tuesday.
Conway said of Walker:
The left will try to caricature him as union-busting, as anti-worker. This gives him the opportunity to say ‘if you’re for amnesty, you’re anti-worker. What I am is pro-worker. It is anti government corruption. Having public sector union members expect Wisconsin taxpayers pay 100 percent of their benefits, that wasn’t fair.’ It’s a matter of fairness. Allow him to explain all of that as pro-worker not anti-worker and if he can do that he’ll be fine. Also, this gives him a distinction among a Republican field that’s getting increasingly crowded. This allows him to be seen as a working-class, populist hero—a working class governor who’s a natural populist, it’s just a natural fit. I don’t know if Mitt Romney could have pulled this off. Then you fast forward and you think of this idea versus Hillary Clinton—if she even has anything to say on immigration—this is the winning hand. This is absolutely the winning hand.
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While I’m sure Gov. Walker is not doing this as a Republican primary ploy—it seems like a real change of heart while reviewing the data and thinking through the realities of job losses in his home state, in the rust belt area and indeed across the country—the only people who disagree are liberals. Democrats are on board, Republicans and conservatives are on board so are independents. If you look at the data, only liberals say Obama should go it alone on amnesty and liberals are less likely than Democrats, Republicans and independents pro-American immigration policy. But so what? That’s 18 percent of the country. Whoopee.
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Walker is smart, Cruz is brilliant.
The rest are traitors or idiots.
Here’s a good one for you, CW.
This is the correct position to take on this issue. This is where I have been for years. Why is Walker only now coming to the correct conclusion?
Walker is smart, Cruz is brilliant.
Yes, and I would add with respect to Walker ‘an established doer.’
Scott WAlker wins praise for his stance on immigration.
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He doesn’t mean it.
And he is also a fighter like Cruz who will not fold like a cheap suit when the left attacks him.
Cruz is still my favorite, but i’d gladly vote for Walker
heck Cruz/Walker or Walker/Cruz would be great either way
That's hyperbolic. I'd promote at least some of them to imbeciles, morons and just mentally challenged.
You don't mean that.
I am glad, that now that he has had time to think through the issue that he has come down on the side of the American worker (and those who would like to work but can't because they are being pushed out by illegals)
Cruz is a brilliant debater and lawyer. Walker is a brilliant politician. He gutted government unions in a 50-50 swing state that hasn't voted GOP in a presidential election since Reagan's second run in 1984. And then won re-election.
And he won the recall election too in which the Left threw everything they had at him, legal and illegal, and he STILL won.
Legal immigration has been a sacred cow since the 1965 immigration law. No mainstream pol has ever suggested lowering the annual intake quotas. Until Walker. That is why he is attracting so much flak from GOP and Democratic pols alike. A significant number of major donors on both sides of the aisle require the pols they support to, at minimum, be pro-legal immigration and to support the expansion of the current intake quotas. Walker is writing off the big GOP donors who have imposed this litmus test, and that will have some impact on his viability as a major candidate. Money isn't everything to a political campaign, but it is very, very important.
Well if we don’t OFFLOAD them and institute discipline and assimilation aggressively we will lose America politically. I HOPE WALKER understands this.
The Bill of Rights will not survive the combo of an indoctrinated American youth and invaders who are being radicalized.
I’ve been saying for quite a while now that this was appropriate talking point on the subject of immigration.
With our infrastructure, roads, electric grids, and water problems, shouldn't we take a break from foreigners?
The current consensus in political circles is "only if you're a racist or a nativist" (or whatever epithet the open borders crowd dreams up). Bottom line is that this isn't a riskless tack for Walker. Walker has not only won the debate in Wisconsin; he has won over voters, which is a much harder thing to do. You can win a debate while making enemies. Walker has managed to win the debate while getting people to vote for him.
Legal immigration has been a sacred cow since the 1965 immigration law. No mainstream pol has ever suggested lowering the annual intake quotas.You're quite right that it has been conventional wisdom in politics to speak highly of legal immigration. In the case of Republican politicians, vocally supporting legal immigration is the shield they hold up to fend off attacks from Democrats who charge racism is at the root of GOP opposition to illegal immigration. Gov. Walker's current stance, if sincere and not an election ploy, is a bold departure. We'll have to wait to see the net effect on his candidacy.
You aint never been to east central or central Wisconsin where all the canning factories are.
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