[Cincinatus' Wife]

Scott Walker: W. Without the Compassion "While it’s becoming common to hear Scott Walker dismissed as a flash-in-the-pan or Flavor of the Month or Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time gaffmeister sure to be pushed aside to make way for Jeb’s Brinks truck of cash or Rubio’s glamor, there are less-apparent aspects of his appeal worth noting. That intrepid translator of the Christian Right’s codes, Sarah Posner, has a fascinating take at Religion Dispatches about Walker perfectly matching a growing mood among politically active conservative evangelicals who want a less showy but more reliable champion:........"

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Love My Gov! :)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

As it happens, Walker’s chapter offering prescriptions for America closely mirrors the stump speech he has been delivering lately (including in — ahem — Iowa), but there’s a good reason for that: It is an effective speech, and he has the gravitas to deliver it. When Walker urges conservatives to show up in the inner city more often and spread the free-market message there, he knows it works because he has done it: In being elected and twice reelected Milwaukee County executive, he routinely won the City of Milwaukee’s Hispanic wards and overperformed in other majority-minority areas, where he talked of entrepreneurship and school choice. Walker recommends that conservatives talk more of “fairness” in order to avoid being accused of being tied to “big business” and “the rich.”

AND LIBERALS ARE PULLING THEIR HAIR OUT!

This 3:00 exchange between "Julie in Green Bay, WI" and Thom Hartmann, [a liberal radio talk show host] typifies how the Left is shocked that poor people have STAND WITH WALKER signs in their yards. "Julie" uses Scott Walker's success to frame her question and make her points about voters [politics, guns, poverty, abortion, the church]. Of course Fox News and ignorance is tossed in - as is letting the listeners know that she's a UW-M graduate.

[dowcaet]

You shouldn’t be posting positive articles about Scott Walker because you might piss off the Cruzers around here.

[UB355]

Lt Gov Rebecca Kleefisch this is what democracy looks like !!

Typical good looking conservative woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs8YBzHnBFU

[DoughtyOne]

On the evening of June 5, 2012, after he had been declared the winner of a historic recall election, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker hugged his friend Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus...

So he's best buds with the head of the RNC.

Translation: RNC = GOPe

This does not help Walker one stinkin' bit with me.

[353FMG]

Any vision of America must be adjusted by considering the negative impact of Islam on its society.

Take a look at what is happening in the world.

Seen anything positive in those parts where Islam is firmly established?

[WIBamian]

Care to comment about his willful hiring of an open-borders, amnesty-loving, Chamber of Crony Capitalism-supporting manager for his communications and social media campaign, a particularly reprehensible, anti-conservative Liz Mair of Mair Strategies?

Scott Walker Under Fire for New Open Borders Amnesty Advocate Staffer Who Mocks Iowa

[DoodleDawg]

Walker says, indicating a need to appeal to people who want “nothing more than to get off government assistance and find work.”

And what better way to do that than to drug test 'em?

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] ...., he routinely won the City of Milwaukee’s Hispanic wards and overperformed in other majority-minority areas, ....

This is pure Karl Rove. Nowhere does Walker address social issues like "black takers" <=> "white makers", affirmative action (excluding whites), abort <=> pro-life.

All the writer cares about is how Walker did in the Mexican wards, which is the e-GOP trying to have their cake and eat it too: Illegal aliens brought in to scab off American LMC moveup jobs and break unskilled and semi-skilled wages can be persuaded to vote GOP with "just the right message" (wrong!).

[lentulusgracchus]

This article sounds pretty reasonable, but it's got e-GOP fingerprints all over it, and if this is part of the "Go Scott!" effort to drain the pool of available capital for serious conservatives, then I'm going to have to reconsider seriously my initial opinion of Walker.

[Art.]Attempts to soften the edges of conservatism and the GOP are cyclical....President George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” attempted to save Republicans from what Karen Hughes called the “grinchy old Republican” days of government shutdowns.

Okay, this is a Rovian knife in the back: Remember, Rove was Dubya's political mentor, and this was the kind of crap Rove used to say, to warn people against associating with mouth-breathing, "grinchy" (= Gingrich) Southern social conservatives, the shunning of whom has been Karl Rove's and the neoconservatives' principal political preoccupation, which they put ahead of winning the White House.

(N.B.: Remember that Karen Hughes was Dubya's most intimate political aide. Something went wrong, Dubya would call up Karen, and she'd quit her job and move back to DC to help The Boss. This helps locate the source of these comments. This is Manor Bush talking.)

Remember, too, that everyone was okay with social conservatives until they actually won something (the congressional by-electoral "earthquake" of 1994) and suddenly threatened the cushy, perpetual sinecure jobs of GOP "expert" eggheads, who've been trying to drive out the "amateurs" ever since.

Yet Walker’s remedies demonstrate that conservatism is inherently compassionate....

This is enterprise capitalism, fine as that is, but there is, again, no social-conservative component here, such as talking about promoting honesty and ethics, so that, again, this is Business Roundtable Republicanism we are dealing with here, not movement conservatism.

Given the hard line a small group of GOP leaders in Congress has recently taken.....

Note the cheap shot at Richard Shelby, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz. More conservative-bashing.

......build consensus while sticking to his principles.

Ding, ding, ding! There it is, the Rove message. "Build consensus" (corner-shoot and crib stray percentage points here and there) while avoiding Reaganism like the Black Plague.

Conclusion: This message was brought to you by Karl Rove and the e-GOP.