Posted on 01/16/2015 5:48:06 AM PST by don-o
CORONADO, Calif. – Scott Walker isn't yet a declared candidate for president, but he's already testing a campaign slogan: "Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Wisconsin."
In a 35-minute speech here at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting, the governor mentioned the name of his home state no fewer than two dozen times – and referenced "our state" or "my state" on at least 30 other occasions.
It all fed into the contrast Walker is eager to strike. While President Obama's Washington, Walker says, is spending big, expanding the federal bureaucracy, and taking a "top-down" attitude to governance, Wisconsin has cut costs, shrunk the size of government, and adopted a "bottom-up" approach.
Walker's speech left little doubt that he will run for president in 2016. And it foreshadowed a messaging strategy that will portray his record in Wisconsin – sweeping conservative reforms validated by three electoral victories in four years – as a model for the Republican Party, and for the nation.
"I'm worried about my country just like I was worried about my state back in 2009," Walker said, recalling his decision to seek the governorship and his plans to get the state back on the right track.
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I like this guy.
I’d like to see Walker and Cruz run and may the best candidate win. Both need to prove they can be effective on this stage.
We’ve been disappointed many times before with can’t miss candidates. They have to earn it.
I also hope if one is clearly losing, the other bows out early enough. We can’t split the conservative vote and best Jeb Romney.
Best one of the bunch announced so far.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, a longtime friend and fellow Wisconsinite, spoke of Walker's everyman image when introducing him Thursday night.
"Scott Walker's a guy you want to have a beer with – a Miller Lite," Priebus said.
With "friends" like this....
I was hoping they’d run on the same ticket.
Go Scott...
Go Rick P
Beat Jeb
Beat Mitt
This IS NOT a criticism:
I understand that Walker does not have a college degree.
To me, it’s a plus. Some of the most incompetent people I have ever had to deal with had Masters degrees (some of the best have Masters as well).
I like the guy, he cuts taxes and spending!
I think we will have a lot of good choices. I will definitely be looking at Walker. Anyone who can beat the unions the way he did might be someone who can start to take on the massive state bureaucracy in Washington. That to me is our biggest problem — a state that keeps growing. It has to be stopped.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/scott-walker-the-un-academic/article/2558544
“...............Our best-known academics today are Obama, Jonathan Gruber, and Hillary — who as Hillary Rodham made Life magazine as her class valedictorian, and who had been told by her teachers that SHE should be president, long before Bill had arrived on the scene. With this in mind, Walker should wear his state proudly. He could win by acclaim as as the un-academic. Run, Scotty, run!”
Or Yuengling?
Walker knows how to take on the left. He’s won three elections in four years.
It’s Walker or Cruz!
Because of his ties to Preibus this might be the only candidate not named Romney, Christie or Bush that the GOP-e does not try to sabotage.
That could be the reason why his good friend Paul Ryan has stated he (Ryan) won’t run for president in 2016.
At least he is not (yet) one of the presidential also-rans or 2008/2012 retreads or a Bush or Romney.
The Republican Party seriously needs new blood in the national leadership. The old codgers running the party are running it to benefit themselves.
I like this guy because he stuck to his principles. He took the biggest body blows the left could throw at him and stood his ground. If we are to start to change DC we need someone like this.
Walker/Cruz would work for me.
Bush? Romney? Stupid. But, the American public is exactly that......
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