Posted on 01/29/2015 9:45:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Republican governor twice elected in a traditionally Democratic, Midwestern state. A record of achieving conservative goals and battling with his state's liberals. Openly devout and socially conservative enough for the evangelicals in the GOP, but not so religious to make non-churchgoing Republicans uncomfortable. A regular guy persona, in part because he didn't grow up rich like Mitt Romney or one of the Bushes
Those are the characteristics that have some Republicans excited about the potential candidacy of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who Tuesday formed a political committee called "Our American Revival" in the latest step towards his likely presidential run.
But those attributes also described former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty when he started campaigning for president four years ago. And Pawlenty's campaign went nowhere: he dropped out in 2011, months before the primaries started, after finishing third in an Iowa straw poll. As Walker starts his run, will be he able to turn his obvious assets into a strong presidential run? Or is he the next Tim Pawlenty?
Pawlenty, now the president of the D.C.-based Financial Services Roundtable, said in an interview that Walker has some advantages that Pawlenty himself did not four years ago.
"Because of his epic battles with the unions and other people in Wisconsin, he became a national figure with a national platform and a national fundraising base, which puts him in a stronger position than I was," Pawlenty said.
Walker, Pawlenty added, has had another advantage. Voters, particularly Republicans, will reward the management experience governors have more than in past campaigns,
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yes, he is.
As soon as Saturday Night Live makes fun of him we will have to abandon him.
It's the Palin Precedent.
(We all know who Mike Lee isn't talking about!)
link at NBC News = ignore immediately and completely
(Much lower blood pressure, that way. :) )
RE: As soon as Saturday Night Live makes fun of him we will have to abandon him.
Well, I guess that would be true for any conservative candidate for President.
We should then abandon him or her as soon as SNL makes fun of him/her?
Why give this show this power?
Wow. The sarcasm was so obvious it was like a two-by-four to the head, and you still missed.
Palin may run again, it could be good. What else could they do to her?
No. He’s not ‘pretty enough’ to get the female voter’s attention. You have to have swagger and a full head of hair. His is thinning. As for ideology, what’s that? Females don’t care about those pesky details. Hell, they put a Marxist Muslim gay illegal alien in the White House.
Hey Perry Bacon, Jr. (if that’s your real name), Obama lowered the bar on presidential qualifications.
That was my point. If we are going to abandon Palin because people are so dumb they think a Tina Fey quote is the same thing as a Sarah Palin quote, then we might as well abandon everybody except the preordained choice of the GOP oligarchy.
Walker has been through the ringer with the left. If there was anything more they could do, they would have done it already.
The best they have right now is that he left college before receiving a degree...but many will see this as a fresh attribute.
Unlike Walker, Sarah Palin is a character, was a fresh face and is attractive...she was a natural target for the left.
SNL will have a tough time making fun of Walker. SNL is going through a long period of lame right now. Sure it can done, but I don't think it will catch on.
FReepers will be the first one to run for the hills.
Pray America is waking
He must be a contender or NBC wouldn’t be trying to tear him down.
would love to vote for Walker
Will NOT vote for Mitt, Jeb, Huckster, Rubio or any other f-ing RINO.
Pawlenty isn’t fit to carry Walker’s lunchbucket
Yesyesyes!
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