Posted on 07/12/2015 5:18:46 PM PDT by Mariner
He drives a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. He brags about wearing a sweater he bought for $1 at Kohl’s department store.
He touts his humble upbringing as a small-town minister’s son, and how he proposed to his wife over ribs at a local barbecue joint. Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, has criss-crossed the country for months regaling crowds with his everyman, “regular Joe” shtick.
On Monday, as he becomes the 15th Republican to enter the race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, his backers are hoping he can convince voters not only that he is the most authentic candidate, but one who can rise to meet the most complex economic and foreign policy challenges facing the country.
“He’s a Midwesterner, he is a governor, and he is an average Joe,” said Larry Sabato, a politics expert at the University of Virginia. “People can relate to that. And if you pretend to be something you’re not, you’re going to be unmasked.”
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Grover and his bunch want three things principally:
1. Open border and "Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
2. Free Trade, especially whatever comes from the enabling TPA.
3. Tax reductions and other changes favorable to business.
They're willing to pay for this modest request.
He’s too gay for me.
Owns one or rides it?
Many people own them but seldom ride.
That probably explains why is talking about Rubio as his running mate.
Not to be overly critical, but do we really need an everyman this time around?
Seems to me we need someone who has the experience necessary to help turn this nation around.
We’ve gotten a lot of everymen applying for this job. I’m sick of what they do with it when they get the job.
A million articles will be written about every single candidate telling you why he's not worth voting for. But I have to vote for somebody and Cruz and Walker seem like the best hopes to me.
What is the experience necessary to turn a country around and where would one get that experience?
I wonder if Megan ever used the word “schtick” in reference to a Democrat candidate.
He’ll go far I would imagine. He’s got a lot of strengths. The left hate him with all their rabidness.
I think it takes more than a political background. I’d say 95% or more of our politicians would be way in over their heads in the White House as it relates to the economy and what to do.
A guy who has had to deal with government red tape, the games that have to be played make deals, and would be willing to stop a lot of that because of it’s negative impact on the nation, would probably be the best man.
He knows how to leverage. He knows what it takes to affect the bottom line.
You wouldn’t have to explain it to him that employing people increases the government coffers, and helps to right the ship of state right away.
He would immediately be geared to cutting costs and reducing the national debt.
He’s grown up having to meet a payroll, and thinking in terms of profit/loss for his own life.
The politician types only know that from a theoretical position. They don’t know all the ins and outs no matter how well meaning they are.
Another reason not to vote for Walker.
...the left hate him with all their rabidness...
Not an importan factor. The left hates all non fringe lunatic liberal Presidential candidates
Hmmm, when did we last have an everyman? Obama’s indonesian childhood, and palling around with communists and terrorists? Bush? McCain - son of an Admiral?
Reagan was the last
Walker’s record is is pretty conservative - budget balanced, majore tax cut, open carry, planned parenthood defunded, right to work.
So far, only Walker and Santorum are talking about reducing LEGAL IMMIGRATION, which is a bigger problem than illegal aliens.
Walker only has a 41% approval rating in Wisconsin and that was before the open records repeal fiasco. Hillary Polls better in the state than he does and only 34% of Wisconsin residents say they think he should run.
If you read Cruz’s full immigration policy at Numbers USA, he also talks about reducing legal immigration drastically.
He’s a fairly active rider, and look closely at some of these pictures and see his genuine relation with the riders.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/democratic-governors-nervous-about-health-plan (2d picture of 3)
I realize he has a job. But time in the saddle matters when we’re talking about being a biker. It does to me, anyway.
Walker got stuff done in Wisconsin. That isn’t everyman in the political sense. That is a good thing.
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