Posted on 09/22/2015 5:58:52 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Bump.
Another post mortem of Walker’s failed presidential campaign. IMHO, it was his staff that failed Walker.
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Simple—Thinking voters are sick of weather-vane politicians.
I guess if being anti big union was enough - Walker would still be in this thing.
” was simply too confident in his own abilities and often acted, ineptly, as his own campaign manager. “
Too many people hyped him, and he bought into it.
Being anti-big union, turning around a moribund state economy and kicking democrats' asses three times straight.. all not enough. To be fair, he hurt himself with inconsistencies on amnesty for illegals, but he took bold stands on taxation, funding universities, funding of Planned Parenthood and education choice.
Too bad... he would've done well as President.
His own campaign manager or not, he did far better that that crew of overpaid cretins that is advising Bush.
I posted this on an earlier thread but well worth a look:
My thought... if you asked people at random across the country if they could name one candidate in the GOP field apart from Trump and Bush, you’ll come up blanks. Name recognition bias and fame is certainly part of it but the main reason, if you’re not already well known on the national level, you have to really sell yourself to make it to the big leagues.
Oh sure, there were nobodies like Carter and Obama whom no one heard of before when they burst into national prominence but they’re exceptions to the rule. Politics is unforgiving and if you don’t know how to weather the waves, you can get towed underneath them and drown. That’s what happened to Walker - he never had a good feel for them and once he ceased mastering them, it was inevitable that he was never going to ride them to the top.
With Trump, he’s unique because he already has name recognition. The man is a brand and every one in the country has heard about him. He’s managed to get going and although his poll ratings have leveled out, it hasn’t really been disastrous. And he knows where the public is at. Trump knows how to manage his time well and what separates him from the field - is that he runs his campaign - not a manager, not consultants and not advisers. He really is his own man.
My thought basically is this: the success of Trump vs the downfall of Walker comes down to one thing: you can either run your campaign as only The Donald himself can run it, or in Walker case, you can let your campaign run you and bury you alive. When you come right to down it again, that could be the critical difference between success and failure on the national stage.
People need to pay as much respect, if not more to how Trump is in the head of things as they are commiserating over how Walker couldn’t seem to find the right path to the presidency.
The people of America said and keeps saying they don’t trust politicians, and Perry and Walker are politicians, and they are gone...The three remaining high in the polls are Trump, Carson and Carly....
That should tell you something....
Voters don't like that, now that most are paying attention. JMHO
Walker has always been cozy with the GOPe and open borders crowd who were funding his campaign and propping him up as some kind of conservative wonder boy. That played well in Wisconsin against the virulent left, but when Walker couldn't keep the script straight that was handed to him, the mask came off resulting in low polls from Americans seeing right through him and his benefactors jumping ship who realized they were throwing in dead money.
In first person, Walker was just not appealing. Perhaps it was personality, or maybe he couldn't grab attention away from Trump. Whatever it was, it's probably a good thing that he bowed out now, rather than fail against a weak Democrat.
None of whom have ever held elective office before. Though Carly Fiorina had a failed run for the Senate in California against an entrenched Democratic incumbent.
Too bad... he would’ve done well as President
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“He was a terrible candidate, but he also got Trump-ed,” said one Walker ally. It sounds more likely that he was Bushwhacked.
Walker and Perry are exactly what the Bush strategy of tying up all the donor money was all about. They can't blame that on Trump. It's only sour grapes to suggest that they might have gotten more fundraising if Trump didn't hog all the media, but it's really Bush squeezing out the donor class that did them in.
-PJ
Walker was just not ready for the national stage, you have to charisma, funding and most importantly killer instincts and a burning fire in your belly to really want to make it. If you don’t have those qualities, you’ll crash fast.
If you’re not a billionaire and you don’t watch where and how you spend, once your tank runs dry, its over.
Walker simply didn’t realize that money will only take you so far and Trump is nowhere near even spending money to remain in contention.
Trump doesn’t need to because he is already famous. For Walker, having the country get on aboard with him was a struggle.
Between the brand and an unknown name, it was simply no contest.
He shot up in the polls after Rush praised him for a couple of days. That must have seemed pretty easy to him, thus the confidence. He never really pushed after that.
The citizens want the invasion stopped.
In his exit speech he outed himself as a Cheap Labor Express employee.
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