Posted on 04/20/2015 11:35:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In results that were stunning for several reasons, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the runaway winner in a "straw poll" of Republican presidential favorites at Pennsylvania’s largest-ever gathering of conservatives, the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, on Friday and Saturday.
With the "straw ballots" counted and released on Saturday, Walker was an easy winner with 91 votes, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 58 votes. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was third with 56 votes.
Since the first PLC back in 1989, the group has become the most-attended and most-watched conclave of conservatives in the Keystone State. Fueled by the recent campaigns of conservative Sen. Pat Toomey(R.-Pa.)and by the rise of the "tea party movement" over the past five years, the 2015 PLC attracted a record 700-plus participants...
Walker’s showing among this group was particularly impressive in that many PLC participants freely acknowledged to Newsmax that they had never met the governor but admired him tremendously for successfully standing up to organized labor over reform of pensions and healthcare for public employees.
Recalling former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s defeat last fall at the hands of Democrat Tom Wolf,a Western Pennsylvania public relations woman and conservative activist told Newsmax:"Gov. Corbett missed his Scott Walker opportunity by never pursuing pension and healthcare reform the way they did in Wisconsin. That would have rallied the grass roots in Pennsylvania and possibly saved him."
Lowman Henry,president of the Pennsylvania Leadership Council,agreed. As he told Newsmax after the straw vote, "Gov. Walker has strong appeal to Pennsylvania conservatives, as we are engaged in the same battles against oppression by labor bosses as he faced in Wisconsin. He has proven his willingness to fight, has won major policy victories, and survived the wrath of the radical left. He is a proven leader, and that is winning him a lot of support here.".........
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Walker is not clear and precise on key issues like the 100 percent repeal of every word of Obamacare....The litmus test of Walker’s immigration position will come when the Chamber of Commerce crowd gives thumbs up or down.
I’ve already heard this phrase “Walker is acceptable to the Establishment” and that certainly tells me something.
LOL...
CW, if you posted it, it’s probably not worth looking at.
How did Perry work out for you in 2012?
Nobody would bite then would they. Now you’ve suckered a bunch of folks who are all primed to shove Scott Walker off on us. Why he’s just perfect.
Never mind what his views were six months ago. We can’t focus on that. The smoke and mirrors are set differently now.
Why you’re even tossing out Alinsky insults you’re so desperate.
My dissing a guy who didn’t have a clue on Illegal Immigration until weeks ago, is now tantamount to loving Barack Obama.
Honest to God folks, do you even think before you post this stuff?
The answer to that is no. And you know it.
The Walkerians can just as easily point out Cruz’s political failures against Democrats.
There is a collaboration of spirits of anti-grace seeking to envelop the whole country. They will deliver us up someone like Jeb Bush if they can.
The only “Cruz” without which we would CERTAINLY lose is the cross of Christ which bespeaks an unspeakable grace of God towards us. God looks very dimly upon people who claim to be recipients of that grace and then dog-in-the-mangerishly refuse it to someone who is gaining but still needs help.
Few donors have been courted as aggressively as the Kochs, whose network of political nonprofits, “super PACs” and like-minded donors plans to spend almost $900 million over the next two years advancing conservative candidates and policies.
Republican presidential contenders including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey have sought out the men for private meetings in Wichita, Kan., and New York, joined them for rounds of golf, and sought coveted invitations to the brothers’ annual donor conference in Southern California. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky wrote an opinion article for Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” issue last week, praising the two men for their “passion for freedom and their commitment to ideas...." G.O.P. Donors Signal a Favorite: Wisconsin Governor
I expect both to live up to Conservatism.
Are you able to grasp that, or do I need to explain Conservatism to you as well?
This speaks volumes about the character you are embracing, a character of anti-grace.
Guess what, God wants you to see that only grace will win the battle. Otherwise you end up with a crabbed worldly nothing.
Vis-a-vis Alinsky, if the shoe fits then you are wearing it.
You don’t have to keep on wearing it.
Lets see, one of you tosses out Alinsky. You toss out Obama. Now your getting close to tossing God into the mix.
This wreaks of the worst times here on F. R., and you folks are just happy as hogs in mud, to be playing this smoke and mirrors game.
Someone needs to call you on it. I’m more than happy to do so.
I get the feeling you can't explain your post, it appears I was right, so now you're doing the "I can show I'm smarter and smarmier than anyone" schtick you revert to.
Lovely.
There ya go. I knew you had it in you. Now I’m an enemy of God too.
Wow, you folks are a find bunch.
You trot out Alinsky, Obama, and now God, to use as a crowbar to curry favor for your candidate. And you want folks to think he has high morals I’ll bet.
Alinsky was a disinformation specialist.
I’m sure he wouldn’t be above using a character like himself, Obama, and God too, if he thought he could drive someone away that was speaking truth.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
It’s such a gas to take a pot shot at a bandwagon because it is not OUR PERSONAL bandwagon ain’t it...
Where ever went the spirit of “God mend thine every flaw”?
That’s the ONLY, ONLY, ONLY way America is going to recover.
Instead we have hypocritical harping going on about supposed equivalents to an unforgivable sin.
And all God’s children replied: LET’S TORPEDO ONE ANOTHER!
Well yes, you are.
It never fails that I have to explain things to you.
If you’re not able to man up and grasp the conversation, go back to the easier threads.
The sordid truth is that every single one of us is a sinner.
It is so ludicrously like the crab effect, what you are doing. If the crab tries to climb out of the pot, the other crabs pull him back in.
That didn’t make sense. Wanna try again.
How about Godding up, “man” ??
Why, yes you are an enemy of God.
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