Posted on 04/20/2015 11:35:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In results that were stunning for several reasons, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the runaway winner in a "straw poll" of Republican presidential favorites at Pennsylvania’s largest-ever gathering of conservatives, the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, on Friday and Saturday.
With the "straw ballots" counted and released on Saturday, Walker was an easy winner with 91 votes, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 58 votes. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was third with 56 votes.
Since the first PLC back in 1989, the group has become the most-attended and most-watched conclave of conservatives in the Keystone State. Fueled by the recent campaigns of conservative Sen. Pat Toomey(R.-Pa.)and by the rise of the "tea party movement" over the past five years, the 2015 PLC attracted a record 700-plus participants...
Walker’s showing among this group was particularly impressive in that many PLC participants freely acknowledged to Newsmax that they had never met the governor but admired him tremendously for successfully standing up to organized labor over reform of pensions and healthcare for public employees.
Recalling former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s defeat last fall at the hands of Democrat Tom Wolf,a Western Pennsylvania public relations woman and conservative activist told Newsmax:"Gov. Corbett missed his Scott Walker opportunity by never pursuing pension and healthcare reform the way they did in Wisconsin. That would have rallied the grass roots in Pennsylvania and possibly saved him."
Lowman Henry,president of the Pennsylvania Leadership Council,agreed. As he told Newsmax after the straw vote, "Gov. Walker has strong appeal to Pennsylvania conservatives, as we are engaged in the same battles against oppression by labor bosses as he faced in Wisconsin. He has proven his willingness to fight, has won major policy victories, and survived the wrath of the radical left. He is a proven leader, and that is winning him a lot of support here.".........
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Alinsky very aptly credited his tome to Lucifer, as best a good atheist like him could bring himself to believe in that malevolent spirit.
You know what, you can’t even be honest with yourself.
Until recently Walker didn’t want to send the illegals back home. I would allow them to stay and work, but wouldn’t allow them to transition to citizen.
The only problem with that is, it would take one class action suit, before a judge would rule they had to be transitioned if they were here legally. And that’s always a part of the program of these guys.
You might not like the messenger, but this is the truth.
Freeze... polarize.
Dynamic politicians like Walker just throw you off your “damn those who are not perfect from birth” game don’t they?
Wow, you are really getting desperate aren’t you.
Did Scott Walker want to send illegal back home last year? No.
Did Scott Walker demand they not be able to work last year? No.
Did he favor them being able to get in the back of the line here and not in their nation of origin? Yes
Now, what is that if not the McCain/Kennedy policy?
And I’m Alinsky?
CW, you’ve got that reversed.
Freeze freeze polarize polarize
Too bad Walker won’t let you get another mediocre candidate.
Are you now saying you trust neither Cruz nor Walker?
This is the same kind of game that served up McCain and then Romney.
Someone won’t learn!
Walker, unlike Paul, has not yet declared his candidacy."
The internet age has made it possible to dig up stuff on politicians that, though it went up years ago, reads like it was put up today.
I wonder if Ronald Reagan would have made it past such a gantlet.
It’s amazing how you folks twist in the wind. You spin this that I’m the guy who isn’t being honest.
We have an issue as important as immigration and this guy couldn’t figure it out for fifteen years. Fifteen years!
Now I’m a really bad guy because I have stated the facts about it. And because I have, I’m now Jeb Bush’s best friend?
Perhaps I should lie like you folks are then. Hey, Scott Walker isn’t perfect. I mean how can you give him a hard time over not being able to figure out illegal immigration until now. Nobody’s perfect?
Did I get that right? Do I sound like a Walker supporter now?
You are seeking to ensure that a guy that until a few weeks ago supported the McCain/Kennedy immigration policy, gets the nomination.
And I’m Jeb Bush’s best friend. Wow.
Moronic talking point...
I don’t understand his new position to not trust Cruz and Walker both, I’m just waiting for him to clarify. I may have misunderstood something.
You are Jeb Bush’s best friend because you continue to dance the very same dance that served up their political cousins.
I’m saying that whoever we support this year, it has to be someone that had a clue before they threw their finger in the air and figured out which way the wind was blowing.
Dough Nut’s “clarification” is the same as Satan’s: “Transgressions are forever.”
Your manic opposition posting on this thread is very telling.
I posted information for you in Post #3.
It sure is. We have folks jumping in behind a flawed candidate, and they can’t see the forest for the trees.
Lsst time it was Rick Perry.
Now the same ass hat clown is hawking Walker.
There were too many perfectionists for anyone who was better than Romney to get a toehold.
I guess you LUUUUUUUV Obama, huh.
It's okay to say you misspoke, I just want to understand your position on Cruz as well as Walker.
Cruz or Lose.
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