Posted on 07/14/2015 6:36:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Pleasant. That’s even how Walker’s bitterest political foes describe him.
In the heat of the state’s showdown with its union four years ago, Rep. Peter Barca, the Wisconsin State Assembly’s top Democrat, publicly denounced the governor at protests across the state. “You know, Governor Walker, you have defiled our heritage,” Barca said at one rally. “You have disregarded our values.”
But Walker,who declined to be interviewed for this article,never took it personally. “I’d give a speech in front of 50,000 protesters saying,‘Walker’s got to go,’“ Barca says, “and you’d see him the next day and you’d think I just sent him a coffeecake or something.”
Barca is part of a small group of leaders who meet regularly with Walker during the legislative session,but Barca said those gatherings are almost never satisfying. “Generally,when you meet with him on the major issues,you don’t feel like it’s a dialogue,”he says. “We get along just fine. He is sort of chitchatty. He exchanges pleasantries,makes some jokes. But you just feel like that on the big issues he is just there to tell you, ‘Here’s what I am going to do.’”
The roots of his immovability may lie in what he calls being a “P.K.”-a preacher’s kid.
In the tiny farming community of Plainfield,Iowa, where Walker moved when was 2,his father,Llewellyn Walker,was pastor at First Baptist Church and served on the city council. His mother, Patricia, was head of the Sunday school. The family, which would soon include Walker’s younger brother,David, lived in a parsonage next door to the church.
Walker credits his no-frills upbringing and parents’ example for imbuing a deep religious belief and a clear moral vision that has guided him for as long as he can remember...
“Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong,”says Stephen Satran, who was in an antiabortion group with Walker in college...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Thank-you, I appreciate it very much!
If he’s such a great governor (and it appears that he is) why are so many people in Wisconsin wanting him to lose that job and move to DC?
Remember how they jumped all over Palin for sounding like a girl?
For those that are old enough to remember "Our Miss Brooks" you might remember that Ted sounds a little like Walter Denton played by Richard Crenna.
You may be closer than you think. Do you know her solution to illegals that can't be deported because their own country won't take them back? If you will post any solution that any candidate has voiced I will post what she has said could be done.
Wow! You sure bring everything, even the kitchen sink.
Go be a storm cloud somewhere else for awhile.
You need for me to “be gracious” to you?
Oh brother.
Carly is a very good speaker.
Where do you suggest I go?
Are my opinions not allowed on FR?
unbending? don’t leftist journalists have interesting and subtile ways of character definition. i don’t even need to read further; i can comment:
it’s not given to me to know someone else’s heart.
however, it might be clarifying here to note that from say Judas Iscariot’s point of view Jesus was completely unbending.
from the Father’s point of view, Jesus was infinitely bending.
if Scott is really a Christian, as all the external evidence i’ve seen so far points, then from his point of view: he’s set his path by Faith in the Lord, not as the world does by the consensus of various man-made crystal balls.
if i understand him as a Christian, in his mind he’s *already* president, if God has so willed, or he’s not because God thinks it’s best at this time that he’s should simply run.
either way, he’s got my support based on what he’s already done in wisc (”be ye doers of the Word”) and because he appears to be running, as he has in the past, by Faith and not by sight. i know most wouldn’t base a political decision this way, but for me it is simply his apparent Faith that lends me the hope on which i can so far base my own faith in Scott, win or lose in the earthly realm.
You know who I think is not very good is Hillary. I don’t think O-bomb-a is good either. He comes across so smug and arrogant. I hate that. Anyway, assuming Hillary is their candidate, it would be nice to have a great speaker on our side to show her up.
You’re right about that.
But speaking well isn’t a requirement for the Left, who only what their leaders to keep to the Marxist script.
The Washington Post’s take on Scott Walker.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
No, Peter Barca, YOU have defiled the heritage of hard working, indeendant midwesterners when you led the Democrats in the legislature by running away to hide in Illinois, instead of staying in Madison to debate the issues. And then to top it off, you WHINED in the press saying that you couldn't afford to stay in a hotel in IL, except that your PARENTS paid for it.
When I read that I visualized you as a 22 year old "kid" representative, just out college. Instead, I find that you are a middle aged excuse for a "man" who is still sucking at his parents' teat.
Huckabee is the consumate professional at the podium. He makes me think of Paul Harvey or Earl Nightingale. On the other hand I don’t think very many leave the auditorium feeling that they have heard the man who should be president.
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