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.....seeing liberal journalists trying to attack Walker for the sin of being polite and diplomatic in his response to questions will only make Republican primary voters like him more: it's an attack that doesn't stick and the very fact that the people making the attacks are making the attempt is a signal that he's a good potential candidate. Basically the accusation has to be more negative than the fact that the people making it feel the need to make it is positive, and this isn't.
While Walker may be electable to the "red meat" GOP primary voters with his stances, his actions and policies in Wisconsin may not play well in the general election. He is a very polarizing figure in his home state and makes no bones about that at all.
While Walker may be electable to the "red meat" GOP primary voters with his stances, his actions and policies in Wisconsin may not play well in the general election. He is a very polarizing figure in his home state and makes no bones about that at all.
This is a problem I see with many different conservatives in particularly that caucus as Tea Party members, they are almost too polarizing for their own good, especially when you consider they don't particularly like to compromise.
.....seeing liberal journalists trying to attack Walker for the sin of being polite and diplomatic in his response to questions will only make Republican primary voters like him more: it's an attack that doesn't stick and the very fact that the people making the attacks are making the attempt is a signal that he's a good potential candidate. Basically the accusation has to be more negative than the fact that the people making it feel the need to make it is positive, and this isn't.
How is flubbing badly on some softball questions liberal journalist attacking Walker? His responses were at best inarticulate. Rubio's response to Giuliani's attention whoring was great. Walker's was terrible. And his answer, non-answer, what are you talking about response to the Syria/ISIS questions was downright embarrassing.
Any republican that wants to reach the White House is going to have to run on actual ideas, and that is going to be difficult when they have to get through a primary voting base that hates intellectualism and ideas as much as it hates the current President.
Walker needs to get lambasted for comparing protesters to ISIS.
I think that comment has cost him any chance of even a Vice Presidential nod. The "base" eats that stuff up because it compares union members to muslim terrorists, but your average, non-fellow-American hating Americans will be totally turned off by that sentiment.
I think that comment has cost him any chance of even a Vice Presidential nod. The "base" eats that stuff up because it compares union members to muslim terrorists, but your average, non-fellow-American hating Americans will be totally turned off by that sentiment.
It's a long ways to the election so it remains to be seen how damaging it is. But just the optic that Walker equates union members (teachers) with ISIS terrorists is up there with the 47% remark and actually rather disturbing.
It's a long ways to the election so it remains to be seen how damaging it is. But just the optic that Walker equates union members (teachers) with ISIS terrorists is up there with the 47% remark and actually rather disturbing.
That's nothing. If he even makes it out of the Republican Primary he will get nailed in debates just on his record as governor alone.
Just take a look at his UW Education System
This guys is proposing deleting laws that require farm safety training programs (in an ag heavy state), removes tobacco research and anti-smoking programs from the system, and even eliminates the requirements that universities report on-campus sexual assaults. And that's just from a 60 second scanning.
Walker, Dr Ben and Jeb all great men its going to be a barn burner. Here in Wisconsin most love Walker as he daved this
sinking into la la state via budgeting and controlling ludicrous entitlement extremes.
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