Posted on 04/24/2015 7:19:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Nice to have someone who isn’t an Ivy Leaguer. Cruz is the only acceptable one in that category.
We could do a hell of a lot worse and ever since Ronald Reagan left the white house on January 20, 1989, we have.
Walker/Cruz or Cruz/Walker. Either one is fine with me.
Walker is my guy.
Agreed!
Walker is a Rubio clone. He’ll say things while he’s campaigning that he’ll “grow” on as soon as he takes office.
Walker has some significant baggage that will certainly prevent his election if not his nomination.
First, he is tied in very tightly with the GOPe (Priebus, Ryan, and Rove). The GOP has a terrible image among voters (much worse than Hillary and the Democrats). Walker’s association with the GOP will come back to haunt him.
Second, Walker’s Wisconsin record is tarnishing. Wisconsin ranks 35th in job creation since 2011. He is not terribly popular in his state (unlike Ted Cruz in Texas). Walker has been a very controversial governor, and he is even unlikely to win his own state against Hillary! It is usually a given in strategic electoral politics that a candidate will win her/his own state. Starting behind the eight ball in one’s own state is stupid.
Third, Walker has stumbled whenever he has spoken extemporaneously on topics he is not familiar with - monetary policy and foreign policy to name a couple.
Fourth, Walker has been absent on the great issues of the day for conservatives. He was silent when Ted Cruz was fighting Obamacare, he is squishy (at best) on amnesty, and he is not vigorously fighting homosexual marriage.
Walker is not going to generate the necessary enthusiasm among disaffected conservatives to defeat Hillary.
Still the likely nominee? Walker has never been the "likely nominee". Just one of several candidates who have a good shot at it.
That’s my bumper sticker.
Another positive on Walker is that he’s recently begun to question legal immigration. Walker ought to build on that, call for an immigration shutdown and appeal to blue collar voters, such as those in his part of the country who sat out the last election.
Obama's pitted the races against each other... it'll never go back to where it was... In the long run it might be a good for the country. Forced politeness isn't all it's cracked up to be.
What Republican are you backing?
You seem terribly uninformed about Scott Walker, I'll go so far as to say that you are purposefully campaigning against him.
In the future prove links to your cherry-picked and out of context "points."
Walker has battled and beaten this kind of campaigning before. Right now he is in the midst of the battle over Wisconsin's 2-year budget, and it is normal for his numbers to drop.
Re Obamacare? Have you seen, reviewed, the proposed 2015-17 Wisconsin state budget? I didn't think so.
Btw, Scott Walker didn't expand medicare (said it was the usual bait and switch and the state would end up with the bill in the end) and he (Wis) is one of the states signed on to Abbott's Obamacare lawsuit.
It's one thing to talk about it, it is quite another thing to have to deal with it (and under constant assault from unions, a recall election and a John Doe anal exam). He won 3 elections in 4 years.
Go support your candidate.
Bookmarking your comment as reference; perfectly stated I would like to use it just as you wrote it in the future if you don’t mind, Walker is not near ready for POTUS, maybe in another 8 years, but in times such as these we need a leader who knows how to STAND in any direction 360degrees a man whose compass is straight and sure, not just against an enemy here and there but against all who want to destroy our Constitutional Free Republic. That man is IMO... CRUZ 2016!
And I forgot my manners.
Welcome to FR.
In a Walker Administration, I would like to see positions for:
Sarah Palin-—Sheriff Joe Arpaio-—Ben Carson & many others. Someone help me fill in more blanks.
Trey Gowdy as AG.
1. Rove hates Walker.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/karl-rove-bashes-scott-walkers-refusal
He’s obviously in tight with Ryan — in the sense he’s from the same state and has to work to message tightly. But Ryan assumed office in 1999, more than a decade before Walker, so Ryan is hardly a product of Walker. Priebus is also from Wisconsin, so is a natural Walker ally: but he’s hardly in the Mccain-Bush-McConnell-Cornyn-Hastert camp.
2. Wisconsin has a stable population, uninflated by hordes of immigrants. So there haven’t been the sort of huge numbers of low-paying jobs that have gone to the states invaded by immigrants. And its unemployment was never nearly as bad as other states’. But its unempoyment rate is great: 4.5%.
3. I can’t rebut a mere assertion without example.
4. The singular GOP-e vs the grassroots issue is immigration. And Walker’s current position on immigration — one he admits has shifted to the right since being elected — is the best of any candidate. Hell, Ted Crus is pushing to give Obama Fast-Track authority to subject immigration to a NAFTA or even EU-like authority.
I like Ted Cruz. I would be thrilled if he won. But I hate this circular firing squad that conservatives made in 2008, 2012, and are making again now in 2016.
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