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."
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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.
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.
I agree 100 percent. Maybe he would primary against Romney in 2016.
We need him where he is.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hear! Hear!
I would rater he were running for President inst ead of Dildo Romney.
Reminds me of an article on Jack Wheelers site which goes a little something like this:
Jesse Helms once said he’d rather be Vice-President than President. The VP is the chief presiding officer over the Senate, he explained, and as such, has the power to control the Senate agenda - who speaks or doesn’t get to, what bills are voted on or tabled, etc.
It was his favorite subject. If you ever asked him about it, he would talk your ear off. He would tell you just how more powerful the President of the Senate was than the Majority Leader. Then his excitement would die down and he’d shake his head in frustration that no Vice-President ever had the nerve to actually exercise that power.
I believe Scott Walker should remain in Wisconsin and continue to clean up the mess created by his predecessors. He will make Wisconsin the good example it has and will continue to become. What the country needs is a lot more Scott Walkers and we can point to Washington and say, look what intelligent, creative, strong and people with integrity can accomplish. Then, let’s bash the heck out of Congress and do more of the same. I’m sure that Mr. Romney has a very good list of VP folks, and I trust he will make the correct decision. Scott Walker may have a great future in the nation’s no. 1 spot, but for now, he is doing a great job and he will do more good.
Agreed. If he’s poached for VP, he cannot continue the progress he’s made and it makes him look like a quitter or hypocrite, winning recall only to leave.
I agree. Let’s not worry about homos and hollywood. Let’s get our nation back to some semblance of freedom and prosperity.
to a consistent conservative P candidate who won't leave him covered with the foul odor of another failed Republican leftist.
born May 28, 1971 in Miami, FL (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Mario Rubio born in Cuba, naturalized Nov. 5, 1975.
Oria Garcia born in Cuba, naturalized Nov. 5, 1975.
Parents were NOT US Citizens at the time of his birth (Does NOT meet the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Marco Rubio is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
Marco's status is the same as that of Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama, who is NOT a Natural Born Citizen.
I agree fully.
He has plenty of time to go ‘National’.
Wisconsin’s problems are not all solved yet, and the neighboring states need support, also.
A new Democrat administration embarks immediately on a wholesale housecleaning(side note: and a purge of the military officer corps), getting rid of and replacing every Republican installed bureaucrat and functionary they can reach.
Republicans add a few of their own but leave the prepositioned Democrat appointments in place. Similarly with the judiciary, Republicans tend to "balance" their judicial appointments while Democrats appoint only hard left Democrats and socialists. In the special case of USSC appointments the Republicans in the Senate tend to be magnanimous in allowing the Democrat president to have his choice and fight only a few of the most egregious appointments. Democrat Senators fight tooth and nail against ANY conservative appointment.
A result is that Republican administrations are actively sabotaged by their own Cabinet Departments, especially State.
The permanent government belongs to the Democrats/socialists and always will until/unless the agencies and bureaus and most of the Cabinet Departments are totally eliminated.
It won't happen.
Forget it. Scott has a job to do in WI. We need him to finish his term and maybe another. He’s young. The nation can have him in 2020.
Well then your opinion sucks again, because it would give the State back to the Slave Party. Wisconsin is still shaky. They're going to need Walker for a while, and we're going to need Wisconsin to get better and better, both to keep the left out of the White House and as an example of what we can do (similar to Indiana).
No, he isn’t a Vice Presidential candidate. Gimme a freakin’ break.
You are basically correct. Romney doesnt have to do anything since Obama is doing it all for him.
This is going to be easy for Romney. Yet it will be the nastiest campaign ever in the nations history.
As a symbolic statement, flushing the entirety of Obamacare would be refreshing (assuming the USSC hasn’t already done it for us). Any tiny nugget of good that happened to be embedded in the PPACA turd would best be enacted afresh.
However, I’m hearing that what Mitt wants to keep is a provision for interstate shopping of health insurance plans. If that’s the case I say don’t sweat the small stuff.
But again if the USSC barfs PPACA, it won’t matter.
As Wisconsin’s governor, Mr. Walker already has a better job, an immediately more important job than U.S. Vice President.
He has certainly done a better job as a governor than Romney ever did.
Wisconsin needs Walker, and the nation needs him, more right where he is than sitting as a place-holder for someone else for 4 or 8 more years.
Romney should pick someone else, and if Romney fails in his campaign, or if we don’t like how Romney does as President, conservatives can try to get Walker to run next time.
There are so many inscrutable factors in the Mitt puzzle. He seems to go along with the prevailing political winds.
Obama is more scrutable, but what we can scrut is uniformly Marxist. No waffling there.
Obviously he is a fiscal conservative, but didn't I read somewhere that he tends a little more left on social issues? Please correct me if I am wrong.
I’ll add a bunch of O’s on to your NO, goodness. VEEP is a useless job. We need Walker here in WI. and listen up Mittens and other Govs: THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.
It’s absolutely heartbreaking that we have to worry about whether Romney is going to grow a spine. I would guess not if the GOP-E is pulling his strings, which they will be.
I’ll add a bunch of O’s on to your NO, goodness. VEEP is a useless job. We need Walker here in WI. and listen up Mittens and other Govs: THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.
It’s absolutely heartbreaking that we have to worry about whether Romney is going to grow a spine. I would guess not if the GOP-E is pulling his strings, which they will be.
No, catfish. Walker does not lean left on social issues.
I agree for the long term, however, by every principle we hold dear, he should stay and finish his term in Wisconsin, designate an ideological successsor, like his LT Governor, and then he can move on to greater things. Like the Presidency in either 2016 or 2020. If they still do that "election thingy" by then.
But not for 2012, that would be unconscionable given the work done to support him in WI the past two years.
We need him them to secure WI in November. He's got the team in place to do it and can rally the vote.
He's doing a great job as governor, and he needs to show what more can be done.
When his time comes he will be running for President, not as window dressing for some other candidate.
I think some of you are not focusing on the real issue — it’s NOT what Walker needs, or Wisconsin needs, the focus should be what the COUNTRY NEEDS. Scott Walker has what the country needs and he could help Romney focus on the real issues — economy and breaking the unions.
Rubio is a nice guy, but he needs more experience, he needs to run and be governor first.
This IS the time where Walker’s star is rising — he could do for the US, what he has started to do for Wisconsin. His Lt Gov seems quite capable to continue to do what he started in Wisconsin.
Although it is now more possible, now that Kleefisch has survived the recall too (and for awhile there she was NOT doing as well in polls as was Walker), I think he is better off where he is. He’s just in his mid-40s. Plenty of time there.
Nope, The situation in Wisconsin needs to be consolidated, with further stabilization of the state’s budget and governance through the real leadership provided by Scott Walker and the Republican legislature.
By completing the job he was (re)elected to do, Scott Walker sets an example, and provides a model, for the rest of the nation. The successes gained are a valuable tool for illustrating the value of Conservative governing principals especially when compared to the Socialist governing results promoted by the Public Sector Unions and their partners in crime, the Democrats (read Socialists).
Scott Walker’s greatest value lies in his continuation of righting Wisconsin after years of neglect under the Union/Democrat yoke.
Those promoting a “Conservative of the Month” for a National Elective Executive office at every turn does not serve that individual, nor the nation well.
Each wine in it’s time. When Scott Walker has completed his job in Wisconsin he may be ready to step up to the national plate. I suspect that he will be building a resume that will be the envy of every elected pol in the next few years.
they can’t recall him again...unless he does something criminal... and the unions are pushing THAT issue already.
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You are freakin’ kidding me. Well, let those meat heads go ahead of finish emptying their coffers on another dead end run. There have been about 30,000 - 40,000 Public Service Employees quit paying Union Dues since Walker became Governor. They don’t have the money for another Recall try. BIG DUMMIES!!!
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If Romney wins in November I suspect it will be by default,....”
many/most of the votes for Romney this November will actually be votes AGAINST Obama, not FOR Romney.
I wonder if we should insist that polling stations provide clothes pins for voters noses this year?????
My sentiments exactly (Walker is TOO VALUABLE where he is now).
To yank him out of his job there might cause the Union Thugs to get a foot in the door and undo Walkers’ good work.
I am soooo very jealous of Wisconsin with your brave governor. Here, in Minnesota, we are stuck with Mark Dayton, a loser for certain. If we had had voter ID in 2010, he would not have been elected, and we would have had Tom Emmer plus both the House and Senate here in St. Paul. With Mark Dayton in the governor’s seat, we are left with a union toadie and an anti-business politician. He either vetoes everything that our legislature passes, or he tries to go around them with appointments of lefties to important positions.
Dayton is one of those spoiled rotten sons of prosperous RINO Republicans. He has never had to worry a day in his life about anything, and he lives off his inheritance of the Dayton-Hudson corporation (now Target). Dayton did have a tgeaching position once right after he graduated from college, but it did not last long (I am not sure why, whether he was a quitter, or whether he just was incomptent - I’ll never know for sure).
Dayton always looks like a deer in the headlights, and speculation is that he is on strong medications to treat a long history of depression.
Good luck, Wisconsin! You have a beautiful state and have now turned the corner away from knee-jerk liberalism. I hope it rubs off on Minnesotans. But, first we need to get a new governor here in MN.
“Yet it will be the nastiest campaign ever in the nations history.”
Given the uni-party’s two nominees, that is only appropriate.
“Walker is at least as conservative as Palin and likely more so.’
Truly? In a nutshell, how so? I am not being contentious, I would truly like to know. The present iteration of the GOP is as vapid and foul as the Democrats, albeit *slightly* better at math. I would like to think there was something to look forward to in the GOP other than sell outs and barkers.
The only way Romney could manage two terms, that’s if he wins one term, would be if the dims run Nancy Pelosi in 2016.
If by "barely survived" you mean won a recall election (where the unions threw millions of dollars and thousands of people on the ground at him) with over 200,000 more votes in the recall and nearly a full percentage point more of the vote than he did in 2010, then you are correct. Otherwise, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Thanks for that information. There are so many fakes, we need to watch and support the real ones like the gold that they are. It seems like the Midwest has been trying to shake off the NE shackles for the past few years. This is great to see.
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