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Analysis: Win vaults Wisconsin's Scott Walker into vice presidential discussion
Washington Times ^ | June 5, 2012 | Ralph Z Hallow

Posted on 06/09/2012 7:21:15 AM PDT by Innovative

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's ability to fight off a concentrated Democratic recall challenge on Tuesday has instantly thrust him into the picture as a possible vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, giving the low-key Mr. Walker the edge over rivals such as the more voluble New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

... The recall win caps Mr. Walker's triumph in actually breaking the union lock on government employees in his state.

"The Walker victory puts Wisconsin in play this fall," said former American Conservative Union Chairman David A. Keene.

"The effort to recall Walker has led to the development of a massive and sophisticated campaign infrastructure in a state that the Democrats won narrowly in 2000 and 2004 and that could switch this fall, denying Obama crucially important electoral votes."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: elections; romney; scottwalker; walker; wisconsinshowdown
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To: faucetman

I agree. The Dems are down and uncoordinated at this moment. I’m betting that turnout will be down for them in Nov. Add Walker to the ticket and you reanimate the union and OWS Zombies and give them a focus for their hatred.


41 posted on 06/09/2012 8:01:32 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: freedumb2003

Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, General Patreaus, General Honore, Roy Moore, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal......................

I need to know a lot more than a simple claim to fame.


42 posted on 06/09/2012 8:02:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Innovative

leave walker in wisconsin to carry on, leave portman in ohio, rubio in florida etc. Why would anyone want to take a strong leader away and have the need to replace? The best VP candidates would be someone “free” like palenty [not my choice] or Sarah Palin [MY CHOICE].


43 posted on 06/09/2012 8:03:30 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Innovative

Veep discussion, yes.
Stay in Madison for a term or so...


44 posted on 06/09/2012 8:04:09 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Innovative

VP for Mittens would be a bad move. I’m voting for Mittens, but only because the alternative is *unthinkable.* I’m under no illusion of what Mittens’s administration will bring. No true conservative will want to be tainted by the stink that is sure to come from Romney’s reign.

Besides, if Walker stays for another term or two and really corrects the damage done by Wisconsin’s fling with “progressivism,” he can be President himself one day. On his own terms.


45 posted on 06/09/2012 8:04:48 AM PDT by kevao
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To: faucetman

“Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor, will be VEEP”

Well, what you say about him sounds good, but that doesn’t mean he is a lock.

Walker now has national name recognition — nobody outside of Virginia has ever heard of McDonnell.


46 posted on 06/09/2012 8:04:48 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Who knows what the Mitt waffle house will serve up in Washington.

What he has said he will serve up sounds glorious. What he has served up in the past is abysmal


47 posted on 06/09/2012 8:05:23 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse will learn to sing)
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To: Innovative

That would be great but not yet. He needs to stay for Wisconsin.

If he were to entertain any thoughts of VP or
President they would call him ‘a quitter’.


48 posted on 06/09/2012 8:06:42 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Criminaliens or Crimigrants...0bamao's people?)
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To: Innovative

I want a VP that has read “The Failure Factory” and knows that Bolshecrat bureaucrats will screw up any administration. I want someone like Dick Cheney, and, Allen West comes to mind.


49 posted on 06/09/2012 8:15:37 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: Innovative
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Let him do his job in Wisconsin and show other Governor's how it's done....he's got LOTS of time.

50 posted on 06/09/2012 8:20:03 AM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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To: pistolpackinpapa
No, no, no. Please; not now
Leave him in WI to finish the job and to torment the Union Thugs and Libs a little longer.

Agree.

Some strong, conservative, state level officials can do more for the country in place than as VP, hanging around D.C. waiting for the president's demise.


51 posted on 06/09/2012 8:22:24 AM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: faucetman
Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor, will be VEEP. Only candidate who makes total sense. As I have said, ALL upside, NO downside

the republicans have a very deep bench of outstanding governors who would make great candidates for VP.

Let them hone their skills at the state level and start limiting the the federal government's insatiable appetite for money and power.

52 posted on 06/09/2012 8:31:26 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: goseminoles
I disagree. If we see an improvement in the economy(which we will), Romney has a shot at two terms. He just needs to work on a budget and stay away from nonsensicle social issues.

By all means, keep pumping out little marxists from our schools, keep importing them from across the borders, force military chaplains to marry turd burglars. What the hell, there are only so many abortions that can be performed in 4 years.

Exactly as I expected would happen, Romney wins the nomination and suddenly expectations would fall in line with the new master. This is exactly why those who claim we will push Romney to the right are talking out their butts.

Shameless
53 posted on 06/09/2012 8:35:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

I agree 100 percent. Maybe he would primary against Romney in 2016.


54 posted on 06/09/2012 8:38:50 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia. 2016 starts today!)
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To: Innovative

We need him where he is.


55 posted on 06/09/2012 8:40:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: goseminoles

If Romney wins in November I suspect it will be by default, especially if he continues to follow the Democrats’ advice on what constitutes fair campaign practices. He could turn out to be the Ham Sandwich of this cycle.(barely relevant trope but I like it).


56 posted on 06/09/2012 8:46:48 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson)
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To: cripplecreek; goseminoles

The big problem in the US and the world is the economy.

As goseminoles said, that should be the focus. Anything else would be a distraction.

That was the secret of Reagan’s success and that is what is needed now.


57 posted on 06/09/2012 8:47:10 AM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: Innovative

I think he’s polarizing like Sarah. I’d vote for either one in a heartbeat but people will get out to vote against him. Four years and hopefully this dies down and we can look at hom again.


58 posted on 06/09/2012 8:49:19 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: pistolpackinpapa

Walker doesn’t need a campaign staff anymore.... they can’t recall him again...unless he does something criminal... and the unions are pushing THAT issue already.


59 posted on 06/09/2012 8:49:38 AM PDT by Invictus (Get used to living in the USSA (ununited socialist states of america))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Romney can only last 8 years if he ditches his stated attachment to keeping the “useful parts” of Obamacare and otherwise governs as the total opposite of the the recent governor of Massachusetts by the same name.


60 posted on 06/09/2012 8:50:14 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson)
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