That was then, this is now: Walker suddenly a hard-liner on abortion as he vaults to front-runner

The London Daily Mail ^ | February 23, 2015 | David Martosko, US Political Editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Here I go "bashing" Scott Walker again, right? I suppose I'm in cahoots with Fleet Street?

Full title: That was then, this is now: Scott Walker suddenly a hard-liner on abortion as he vaults to 2016 GOP front-runner status

[sickoflibs]

RE:” AD says ‘The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor,’ he said in a campaign ad”

HA-HA, If he hadn't have claimed that he'd wouldn't have won his last two elections.

He'd just be another loser like Newt and Santurum booted from office, but the safety bill did restrict abortions nevertheless AND he won those three elections too.

Meaning he beat Dems on it. He won.

[Awgie]

I look forward to hearing Scott speak. He will chose his time place and words carefully. But then he will comunicate them with a quiet confident manner that will both belay and affirm his steadfastness.

[SoConPubbie]

HA-HA, If he hadn't have claimed that he'd wouldn't have won his last two elections.

Same nonsense line of Reasoning was used by Romney and his sycophants to excuse his bad decisions as well.

IMHO, didn't work for Romney, and it shouldn't be used as an excuse for Walker, Rubio, or even Ted Cruz.

Wrong is wrong my friend. Don't make excuses for it.

[Jonty30]

Any Republican candidate that goes hardline against abortion allows the moderates to walk up the middle or allow the Dems to win.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Meaning he beat Dems on it. He won.

Sounds like some unborn "lost".

[SoConPubbie]

Any Republican candidate that goes hardline against abortion allows the moderates to walk up the middle or allow the Dems to win.

Yea, that's what happened with Reagan, right, oh, wait, just the opposite happened. He took a hard-line against abortion while the Moderate, GH Bush, took the normal moderate stances on abortion.

Reagan won, Bush became VP.

[SoConPubbie]

Scott “The Weather-Vane” Walker strikes again!

[Jonty30]

I’m glad that you can enjoy the winnings of a President almost 40 years ago. In the meantime, every prolife candidate hasn’t gotten past the second ballot.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Sounds like some unborn “lost”.

No, he saved unborn babies lives with that antiabortion bill that he got passed through a purple state.

Without him they would be dead,

He shows knows how to beat Dems, not lose over and over to them on fight after fight and get on TV and blame others for it.

That talents more suited for radio talk show hosts.

[terycarl]

What the hell do want the man to do?????

He doesn't have any nail marks in either his hands nor his feet and the crown of thorn marks have mostly disappeared...good grief, the attack on any Republican candidate is as bad among so called conservatives as it is among the idiot left...

[ifinnegan]

Oh how the long knives come out after Walker

Even here.

[upsdriver]

Not sure I’m understanding this. When was he ever pro-abortion? Looks to me like he has been pro-life all along.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So why not go "all-in" and vote for Chris Christie then? He certainly didn't go "hardline" in defense of the 2nd Amendment in this ad, did he?

[Jonty30]

What do expect?

He’s not a certain female from Alaska.

[Candor7]

The left is obviously worried and afraid about Scott Walker.
He has played the left like his personal harp as they attempted to destroy him back in his home state.

This will not stop. The press will double down on him until they are doing illegal things, then he should snap them into court....real hard and hit them for millions in defamation and slander damages.

[upsdriver]

The meme here is to support Ted Cruz only. Everyone else needs to be destroyed, which is quite stupid, imo.

[Colonel_Flagg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214398/posts

From the article:

Accept “end a pregnancy” as a euphemism for killing a child? Check. Emphasize that he’s leaving abortion between “a woman and her doctor”? Check. Gratuitously affirm that favoring legal abortion can be “reasonable”? Check. Bend over backward to insist it’s all about the women rather than their babies? Check.

This is exactly what many feared would happen when Scott Walker hired pro-abortion spokeswoman Alleigh Marre for his re-election campaign. This may have been a deluded attempt to appear more reasonable than the caricature, but all Walker has done is preemptively conceded the legitimacy of various pro-abortion premises and rhetorical fictions.

Walker has explaining to do.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”IMHO, didn't work for Romney, and it shouldn't be used as an excuse for Walker, Rubio, or even Ted Cruz. “

Since only one of them was re-elected, the same one re-elected twice in two years(surviving Dem recall) , the others are all in a similar boat.

They have yet to show they can accomplish anything good and get re-elected, let alone survive what Walker did.

[Colonel_Flagg]

You beat me to it.