Posted on 11/07/2014 7:23:52 AM PST by thetallguy24
The author comes across as a ‘concern troll’.
We need someone who is soft spoken but driven by their convictions. I was telling my wife on election night that we need a long string of single-term presidents. That usually indicates they did something controversial. We need positive controversy like Medicare reform.
Is there anyone this ‘Vox’ website doesn’t hate?
Walker is the best thing going right now.
Well it’s Vox, so........
Cruz/Walker 2016
Vox is Ezra Klein’s website. Concern troll city.
Yup.
We will have to watch for many more of these in the next 2 years as Libs and RINOs will start seeding this crap all over, while issuing glowing praise of JeBush and Chris Crisspy.
I’d say Carson fits your bill for soft spoken and driven by convictions.
BTW, clickable link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wxEfnPakLYM
When will we ever learn to quit voting for pretty faces and cute personalities?
Walker is 50X the governor Pawlenty was, but this is the area I am looking at, too. National politics is a different game, and TV image determines the winner. I’d like to see him run and see if he can do it.
I think the problem isn’t mid-westerners so much as that good executive governance goes not go hand in hand with TV charisma. When the two intersect, that’s where we have a good candidate. Other examples - Jindal, possibly Kasich, Rick Scott, and others. I also want to see if Mike Pence is interested. He’s got the mid-western style but is a really effective communicator, too. Not sure if the timing is right for him as he is just in his first term. He may gamble that he is in a good position in 2020 if we lose this round.
This is why we have ... primaries. To get failings like this out into the open, but also allow candidates to learn and improve.
That being said, no he's not "charismatic", and I agree that he needs work on formal speechifying. He grabs on to phrases such as "hard working taxpayer" and doesn't let go.
What he excels at, however, is connecting directly with the voters. In his ads he looks them straight in the eye and speaks openly. It's a straightforward "this is who I am and what I'm about - like it or leave it". And then he backs up those words with action.
I hope people are ready to choose that approach over empty soaring oratory that sounds pretty but accomplishes nothing.
Using superficial qualities to discount a superior leader is an old liberal technique.
Scott Walker has beat down the unions, the MSM and the democrat machine to win big three times in six years. And he did it with style. Why? Because he gets results. He employed conservatism to turn Wisconsin’s finances around.
He would have an easier time running in a national election.
The author doesn’t discuss the characteristics of a potential political rival for POTUS: Hillary Clinton. Old, unattractive, shrill and gaffe-prone, Clinton would have a tough time defeating Walker.
/s
Remember that DEMOCRATIC guy they elected twice for POTUS recently...he came off speaking REALLY well...until after his second election...we all found out that speech was not his strong suit...
I don’t care how someone sounds - it’s their policies and actions I’m more concerned with + character...if I want good drama and entertainment - I’ll go watch a movie...don’t need that in a President...
Concern Trolls get both middle fingers.
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