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Is Scott Walker a True Contender?
NBC News ^ | 01/29/2015 | PERRY BACON JR.

Posted on 01/29/2015 9:45:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A Republican governor twice elected in a traditionally Democratic, Midwestern state. A record of achieving conservative goals and battling with his state's liberals. Openly devout and socially conservative enough for the evangelicals in the GOP, but not so religious to make non-churchgoing Republicans uncomfortable. A regular guy persona, in part because he didn't grow up rich like Mitt Romney or one of the Bushes

Those are the characteristics that have some Republicans excited about the potential candidacy of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who Tuesday formed a political committee called "Our American Revival" in the latest step towards his likely presidential run.

But those attributes also described former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty when he started campaigning for president four years ago. And Pawlenty's campaign went nowhere: he dropped out in 2011, months before the primaries started, after finishing third in an Iowa straw poll. As Walker starts his run, will be he able to turn his obvious assets into a strong presidential run? Or is he the next Tim Pawlenty?

Pawlenty, now the president of the D.C.-based Financial Services Roundtable, said in an interview that Walker has some advantages that Pawlenty himself did not four years ago.

"Because of his epic battles with the unions and other people in Wisconsin, he became a national figure with a national platform and a national fundraising base, which puts him in a stronger position than I was," Pawlenty said.

Walker, Pawlenty added, has had another advantage. Voters, particularly Republicans, will reward the management experience governors have more than in past campaigns,

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Iowa; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; districtofcolumbia; election2016; iowa; scottwalker; wisconsin
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1 posted on 01/29/2015 9:45:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

yes, he is.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 9:49:17 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (am in the process of not complying)
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To: SeekAndFind
Doesn't matter.

As soon as Saturday Night Live makes fun of him we will have to abandon him.

It's the Palin Precedent.

3 posted on 01/29/2015 9:50:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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Principled-Positive-Proven

(We all know who Mike Lee isn't talking about!)


4 posted on 01/29/2015 9:51:07 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: SeekAndFind

link at NBC News = ignore immediately and completely

(Much lower blood pressure, that way. :) )


5 posted on 01/29/2015 9:51:50 AM PST by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

RE: As soon as Saturday Night Live makes fun of him we will have to abandon him.

Well, I guess that would be true for any conservative candidate for President.

We should then abandon him or her as soon as SNL makes fun of him/her?

Why give this show this power?


6 posted on 01/29/2015 9:54:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. The sarcasm was so obvious it was like a two-by-four to the head, and you still missed.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 9:56:02 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Palin may run again, it could be good. What else could they do to her?


8 posted on 01/29/2015 9:57:11 AM PST by Rennes Templar (New name for Boehner: The Caveman)
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To: SeekAndFind

No. He’s not ‘pretty enough’ to get the female voter’s attention. You have to have swagger and a full head of hair. His is thinning. As for ideology, what’s that? Females don’t care about those pesky details. Hell, they put a Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien in the White House.


9 posted on 01/29/2015 9:57:54 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey Perry Bacon, Jr. (if that’s your real name), Obama lowered the bar on presidential qualifications.


10 posted on 01/29/2015 9:59:41 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: Rennes Templar

That was my point. If we are going to abandon Palin because people are so dumb they think a Tina Fey quote is the same thing as a Sarah Palin quote, then we might as well abandon everybody except the preordained choice of the GOP oligarchy.


11 posted on 01/29/2015 10:00:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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You have to have swagger and a full head of hair. His is thinning

Anybody else agree with this?

12 posted on 01/29/2015 10:01:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
As soon as Saturday Night Live makes fun of him we will have to abandon him

Walker has been through the ringer with the left. If there was anything more they could do, they would have done it already.

The best they have right now is that he left college before receiving a degree...but many will see this as a fresh attribute.

Unlike Walker, Sarah Palin is a character, was a fresh face and is attractive...she was a natural target for the left.

SNL will have a tough time making fun of Walker. SNL is going through a long period of lame right now. Sure it can done, but I don't think it will catch on.

13 posted on 01/29/2015 10:07:31 AM PST by kidd
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FReepers will be the first one to run for the hills.

Pray America is waking


14 posted on 01/29/2015 10:08:22 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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15 posted on 01/29/2015 10:09:44 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: SeekAndFind

He must be a contender or NBC wouldn’t be trying to tear him down.


16 posted on 01/29/2015 10:13:56 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Red Badger
I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody!
17 posted on 01/29/2015 10:19:18 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: SeekAndFind

would love to vote for Walker
Will NOT vote for Mitt, Jeb, Huckster, Rubio or any other f-ing RINO.


18 posted on 01/29/2015 10:20:08 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: SeekAndFind

Pawlenty isn’t fit to carry Walker’s lunchbucket


19 posted on 01/29/2015 10:20:53 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Yesyesyes!


20 posted on 01/29/2015 10:22:31 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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