Wisc. Governor Walker Hints He's Running For POTUS

TruthRevolt.org ^ | Jan. 7, 2015 | Jeff Dunetz

[Yashcheritsiy]

Sounds like you don’t like FReepers very much, so why are you here?

Oh, I like FReepers well enough. I've just learned over the years not to put too much stock in them.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Since he won reelection by six points in November, his aides have indicated he wants to continue lowering taxes, push to expand school choice, and replace the federal Common Core education standards.

That's all light-weight stuff he could have had passed and signed in the last month of the previous session.

He also will try to have food-stamp and unemployment benefit recipients undergo drug testing, in part so they can show employers they are capable of holding jobs.

(YAWN) He could probably get half the Democrat legislators to vote for that.

As of now, he doesn’t plan any new dramatic assaults on the public-employee unions whose power he curbed in 2011 legislation.

There it is. The most conservative WI legislature in a lifetime and he wants to squander it so that he will have an easier run at the White House. This is nothing more or less than political cowardice.

[TontoKowalski]

I'm not sure where you're finding disagreement with me concerning the Speaker vote.

Scott Walker didn't vote for Speaker, so I'm not sure why anyone would be PO'd at him over that vote.

My point is that people are outraged over House Republicans voting for Boner... so why isn't there similar outrage over Senate Republicans choosing McConnell?

I suspect... and I'm not directing this at you necessarily... the reason is that their favorite Senator may have supported McConnell... but if he did, he still gets a pass on the issue.

There seems to be some disdain for my contention that Walker is "viable" and "electable." I'm not sure why that is. You can be an attractive candidate to the "middle" and yet still be conservative.

I'm all for the most conservative candidate imaginable, but he better be a fit for the political "middle," too. Walker's weathering of the election trials in blue Wisconsin tell me that the guy is a winner. Furthermore, he's advanced a conservative agenda in unfriendly territory.

[KC_Conspirator]

For the most part in comparison with my views, probably. However, I like Walker and maybe one or two others. Sadly, I think who can fundraiser the most will win and it will be a weaker candidate.