Walker Leaves Little Doubt He'll Run for President

[riversedge]

Source: nationaljournal.com



Walker Leaves Little Doubt He'll Run for President


The Wisconsin governor tests an outsider message in his speech to Republican influentials.
By Tim Alberta


http://cdn-media.nationaljournal.com/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=5877&format=nj2013_8_columns

........."We need to offer a new, fresh approach, one that comes from the states. The states are where we actually get things done," Walker said. "That matters. It's not enough just to give a speech."

Of course, talk of a "new, fresh approach" also highlights the 47-year-old Walker's youth compared to an older generation of prospective 2016 hopefuls, Democrat and Republican alike.

Walker singled out Hillary Clinton for criticism, calling her a "big loser" in the midterm elections. After living in the White House as first lady, serving in the Senate, and working in the Obama administration, Walker argued, Clinton has become symbolic of a political status quo that voters rejected in November.


"Everything that people dislike about Washington, she embodies it," Walker said.....

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/walker-leaves-little-doubt-he-ll-run-for-president-20150116

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You all can have this worthless piece of poop.

[KamaAina]

1. I'd prefer his brother

Johnnie.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Eminently qualified

[yurbud]

4. I wish the jock who made that call went further:

Koch: Scott, we're having trouble selling some of our paper products right now because of the down economy. Could you work in references to AngelSoft toilet paper and Brawny paper towels into your speeches and answers to press questions? You know like, "I want to wipe out unions the way AngelSoft wipes your ass after a bowel movement." You could reword it if you want, but you get the general gist.

[BeyondGeography]

5. He does sound like such a suck-up employee in that call

That's the real beauty of it for me.

[yurbud]

6. Koch could have asked him to wipe his ass publicly with their toilet paper and he would have said

"yes, sir!"

[BeyondGeography]

8. In a normal "advanced" democracy, that clip is fatal

We're abnormal.

[riversedge]

11. naughty naughty

[yurbud]

7. there's a great anti-Walker campaign commercial in there if any Democrat is

willing to make it.

[tblue]

3. Jeb will be just as bad.

They all me.

[yurbud]

17. the GOP can be divided into the militantly ignorant and cruel on the one hand and

the just plain corrupt on the other.

W was able to be both at at the same time.

[msongs]

9. voted into office by a majority of voters in 3 elections. why not (from his viewpoint) ? nt

[riversedge]

10. Hoping the Nat. media will vet him. WI main newspapers did a poor job

..........It all fed into the contrast Walker is eager to strike. While President Obama's Washington, Walker says, is spending big, expanding the federal bureaucracy, and taking a "top-down" attitude to governance, Wisconsin has cut costs, shrunk the size of government, and adopted a "bottom-up" approach.

Walker's speech left little doubt that he will run for president in 2016. And it foreshadowed a messaging strategy that will portray his record in Wisconsin—sweeping conservative reforms validated by three electoral victories in four years—as a model for the Republican Party, and for the nation.

"I'm worried about my country just like I was worried about my state back in 2009," Walker said, recalling his decision to seek the governorship and his plans to get the state back on the right track.

[jmowreader]

12. "Symbolic of a political status quo"?

Didn't he just get reelected in November? It seems to me when you're in your second term, you have joined the "political status quo."

[onehandle]

13. Kooky Klown Kar fills... nt

[tanyev]

14. LOL, you've got to get past Jeb and Ted before you take on Hillary, Scottie.

Good luck with that.

[Stephen Retired]

15. Please proceed, Governor

[marble falls]

16. It will be a duty, an honor and my privilege to vote against the little weenie if he gets the nod.