[Rummyfan]

Scott Walker is unexcitable. Do they mean unexciting?

[Rummyfan]

“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.’”

Sounds like the makings of a great chief executive.

[Guenevere]

If Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong, why hasn’t he imbued this to his wife and kids?
It sounds like a house divided......the sons are ‘passionate’ for gay marriage.....the wife is good with it too cause she has a lesbian aunt who recently married another lesbian.

You can’t make this stuff up.

[arthurus]

Scott Walker talks too fast. Reagan spoke deliberately at a slower rate and was inherently more believable because of that. The baritone voice didn’t hurt, either. If Walker could slow down the delivery and limit his presentations to three or four consistent goals and attendant methods, he would go far to replicating Reagan’s success.

[Awgie]

“Scott has a very strong sense of right and wrong,”

C’mon Scott get with the times. Everything is relative. There is no such thing as Right or Wrong. There is no such thing as Good and Evil. Now we have even learned there is no such thing as Man or Women.

Dang! We is so smart!

[SamuraiScot]

The roots of his immovability may lie in what he calls being a “P.K.”-a preacher’s kid.

. . . or, in not being a political prostitute. But that's a species that may not be imaginable in the WP world.

He may or may not be the man we need for this election. I think whoever it is needs a fundamental understanding of the peril of uncontrolled immigration, and a willingness to be like Ronald Reagan, ignore the advice of advisers (including family) and "fundamentally transform" the immigration process. That is, to reverse it, and re-found America's understanding of our Constitution and our heritage.

He's got the resolve, but he doesn't seem to grasp as yet that without Americans, there is no America.

[bigbob]

Peter Barca is the Wisconsin equivalent of Nancy Pelosi...lead fleabagger.

[ScottinVA]

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.’”

AKA, a LEADER.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

He is good on labor issues but his delivery is obnoxious, imo. He is no Ted Cruz.

[ilgipper]

Walker is the perfect foil to the Obama years. Want the opposite of Obama, Walker is the plain spoken midwestern governor with a slew of resume achievements. He’s an everyman, likable, etc. Obama was the foil to Bush....from southern, lack of communication skills, boldly American to young, hip big speech giver. Bush was the foil to Clinton - good family man, not slick, no personal drama. Clinton also was a foil to Bush 41. Each president has provided the answer to their predecessor’s biggest glaring weaknesses.

[rollo tomasi]

A society where charisma is #1 and name recognition #2 in determining their public leaders is a society that is senseless and simpleminded.

[sitetest]

And I’m supposed to dislike this guy???

[dadfly]

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.

[afraidfortherepublic]

The Washington Post’s take on Scott Walker.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[afraidfortherepublic]

“You know, Governor Walker, you have defiled our heritage,” Barca said at one rally. “You have disregarded our values.”

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.