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Made in Wisconsin
Scott Walker thinks being governor will make him a great president. Actually, that’s unlikely.
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After six months of speeches, fundraisers, and cattle calls, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making it official: He’s running for president. Unlike most other candidates in this overstuffed melee of a nomination fight—thus far, there are 15 formal candidates for the GOP crown—Walker is a candidate to beat, and perhaps the candidate to beat.
Like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee, Walker appeals to conservative Republicans. But his vehicle is action, not petty outrage or high-wire antics: With every successful fight against liberal interest groups—from unions to academics—he wins more acclaim from the right’s rank and file. At the same time, his restrained rhetoric and cautious demeanor gives him an opening with Republican elites, who want a strong—but measured—nominee. Add his fundraising prowess to the mix and you have a base-driven candidate with “establishment” bona fides who doesn’t alienate the other factions of the Republican Party—a potent profile for a presidential hopeful.
In terms of stagecraft, the most important fact about Walker is his affable, if boring, presentation. Despite his right-wing views on everything under the sun—from worker’s rights and economic regulation to climate change and voter access—he seems like an ordinary accountant or middle-manager who just wants to put a few things in order. And to bolster that image, Walker touts his “everyman” bona fides—his reliance on the Kohl’s department store for clothing and other everyday items—and stresses his experience in the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.
For Walker, there’s nothing he might face as president that doesn’t have an analogue in Madison’s statehouse. When asked how he’d handle ISIS, for example, Walker told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February that if he can “take on 100,000 protesters”—a nod to the 2012 recall election—he can “do the same across the globe.” Indeed, he’s all but summarized his pitch to Republican voters—and the nation writ large—with a single line: “Governors,” he said in a 2014 interview, “make much better presidents than members of Congress.”
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After six months of speeches, fundraisers, and cattle calls, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making it official: He’s running for president. Unlike most other candidates in this overstuffed melee of a nomination fight—thus far, there are 15 formal candidates for the GOP crown—Walker is a candidate to beat, and perhaps the candidate to beat.
Like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee, Walker appeals to conservative Republicans. But his vehicle is action, not petty outrage or high-wire antics: With every successful fight against liberal interest groups—from unions to academics—he wins more acclaim from the right’s rank and file. At the same time, his restrained rhetoric and cautious demeanor gives him an opening with Republican elites, who want a strong—but measured—nominee. Add his fundraising prowess to the mix and you have a base-driven candidate with “establishment” bona fides who doesn’t alienate the other factions of the Republican Party—a potent profile for a presidential hopeful.
In terms of stagecraft, the most important fact about Walker is his affable, if boring, presentation. Despite his right-wing views on everything under the sun—from worker’s rights and economic regulation to climate change and voter access—he seems like an ordinary accountant or middle-manager who just wants to put a few things in order. And to bolster that image, Walker touts his “everyman” bona fides—his reliance on the Kohl’s department store for clothing and other everyday items—and stresses his experience in the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.
For Walker, there’s nothing he might face as president that doesn’t have an analogue in Madison’s statehouse. When asked how he’d handle ISIS, for example, Walker told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February that if he can “take on 100,000 protesters”—a nod to the 2012 recall election—he can “do the same across the globe.” Indeed, he’s all but summarized his pitch to Republican voters—and the nation writ large—with a single line: “Governors,” he said in a 2014 interview, “make much better presidents than members of Congress.”
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especially if Bu$h continues to struggle as a candidate, and it will be hard swimming against that tide wave of cash. But after doing it once, I think we'll be-able to do it again.
Jeb's damaged goods, and I think he'll sell the Hell out of not being a college grad ("I'm like most of you -- not a professor like Obama"
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