Yep. And then claiming “At least we tried. We deserve credit for setting big goals and fighting for what we believe in, even though all those positive things we promised weren’t actually delivered.”
It’s the Republicans exploiting the soft bigotry of low expectations for their own benefit.
Voter analyses in Walker’s three elections vs. the 2012 general election strongly support the relative lack of Democratic voter turnout in the state during ‘off years.’ But, yes, there’s a lot more going on.
Money is a big factor. Walker has had far more financial support than his opponents. The WI Dems have also been badly run for years and are overly reliant on big labor for its messaging. It was also a strategic mistake to attempt to recall Walker. And the D’s lack broad ‘bench strength’ in WI.
Hope that helps.
She sounds as medicated as Sarah usually does.
Scott Walker is what you’d get if a right wing Internet troll ran for President.
Invoking God’s plan to support one’s personal aspirations is reminiscent of: Michelle Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Bush the dumber, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Pat Robertson, and all radicalized Muslim groups like al Qaeda and Isis. Really republicans, you want someone like this to represent you?
Scott Walker may look scary from a political perspective, but it dawned on me the other day that he adds nothing to the Romney base vote. He will only get votes from the people who voted for Romney; no one who voted for Obama will vote for him. Meanwhile, both Hillary and Bernie have the ability to peel off some of the people who voted for Romney last time - Hillary gets some older women moderates and Bernie some economic populists. The only way Republicans could possibly win the Presidency is by playing Electoral College games - awarding electors by congressional districts, which some Republican state legislatures have already been discussing.
This is the post I believe should be condensed into a form which could, perhaps, give the types of people who regularly guffaw at Jon Stewart a reason to convert those laughs into action…
Two things:
It’s not the stupidity of the people who like Walker that is relevant. It’s the stupidity combined with the determination to VOTE. If Walker’s so-called opposition cannot summon enough _____________________ (whatever that is) to go to the polls, then it’s irrelevant how many cute things the opposition (Stewart, Maher, lesser jokesters, people who rally, post online, etc.) says…Since our kinds of people have not fathomed (as much as the double-digit I.Q. folks who vote for Walker) that voting counts as much (and maybe more) than sentiment and wit.
Walker is not so much of a dream candidate for Republicans as a nightmare candidate for Wisconsin, the nation and, by extension, Planet Earth. Give him a Republican Congress, moreover, and Its Over.
There are not enough Progressive older people (like TPM posters) to stop Scott Walker. In order to stop Scott Walker, Americans are going to have to depend on people vastly under-utilized and uninspired…people the Democratic establishment have a great deal of difficulty in animating. The fact that the MSM is pulling for the HorseRace means that Scott Walker’s shortcomings will be dramatically downplayed.
Well, he’s a bland white guy that hates the poor and would kill his own mother just for a dollar so yeah, he’s the perfect Conservative.
On paper, Walker is the ideal conservative candidate.
In practice, he’s a bumbling buffoon with zero foreign policy knowledge and nothing but cocksure hubris on which to base his campaign.
He’ll make some horrifying gaffe soon enough, and all his dreams of power will crumble into dust.
Not really “perfect” but a prime example of the impact of things like the citizens united ruling and the removal of Glass-Stegall have had on the political spectrum. all that moneys created people like Walker…
He is on there:
SIX THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
1
SCOTT WALKER IS GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND THREATENS TO BRING WHAT HE DID TO WISCONSIN TO WASHINGTON.
2
AS GOVERNOR, WALKER LAUNCHED A CRUSADE AGAINST WORKING WISCONSINITES AND GUTTED WORKERS’ RIGHTS. EARLIER THIS YEAR, HE SAID THAT IF HE COULD TAKE ON 100,000 TEACHERS, SOCIAL WORKERS, NURSES, AND OTHER WORKERS WHO PROTESTED HIM, HE COULD TAKE ON THE BRUTAL TERRORISTS OF ISIS.
3
WALKER’S BUDGETS GUTTED EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE WHILE HE GAVE NEW TAX BREAKS TO BIG BUSINESSES. HE EVEN CREATED A FAILED GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT HAS SENT MILLIONS TO HIS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS.
4
WALKER REJECTED FEDERAL FUNDS TO EXPAND MEDICAID AND PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FOR AN ADDITIONAL 152,000 PEOPLE, WHICH WOULD HAVE SAVED THE STATE $400 MILLION OVER TWO YEARS.
5
WALKER FELL FAR SHORT OF HIS PROMISE TO CREATE 250,000 JOBS IN HIS FIRST TERM AND THE STATE’S ECONOMY LAGS BEHIND THE NATION WHILE BEING RANKED AT THE BOTTOM IN THE MIDWEST IN TERMS OF JOB GROWTH.
6
PROSECUTORS ARE STILL PURSUING AN INVESTIGATION INTO CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATIONS FROM WALKER’S CAMPAIGN, AND SIX OF HIS AIDES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED FROM YET ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.
Perhaps it wasn’t when you first visited it because he wasn’t a declared candidate? But he is most definitely a contender.
That’s a pretty big problem no matter who wins the GOP nomination. And they are quite aware of it. Their strategy is to grow the white vote, to turn out even more white voters than they did in 2012, because they figured there were 7 million fewer white votes in 2012 than there was in 2008.
The problem with this approach however, is that Romney captured more of the white vote than Reagan did, yet still lost by almost 4 points. If we only change the votes based on demographic changes, Romney loses by almost 6 points in 2016.
And Hillary will probably capture a bigger percentage of the white vote than Obama did (white non college voters, of which Romney won, will decrease by 1% by 2016…white college voters, of which Obama won, will increase by 3%). So even getting out the white vote is actually harmful to them at this point; its only the non college educated white voters…and when you start slicing up the voter segments that small to try and compensate for losing every one else, you are definitely in a death spiral.
Let us hope so.
Trump is a joke, but Walker is as serious as a heart attack. If he wins the GOP nomination, or even if he’s on the ticket as VP, all Democrats need to unite against this existential threat to the United States.
She should. The Clintons have always done fairly well with white voters, including blue collar ones. Bill won Kentucky both times, and Hillary polled much better than Obama in the traditional white, blue collar districts.
Demographically, the GOP could be looking at a electoral loss that will keep the MSM babbling about a changing America for years. Trump and rest of the GOP are literally driving the Hispanic vote into her arms; she is going to extremely well with women voters, will receive 90+ percent of the black vote. If she does even marginally better with whites than Obama did, she could be looking at a 10 point win. That’s a high estimate, but certainly not out of the ball park (7-8 is probably more reasonable…but is still a landslide).
This is exactly the “perfect” candidate that I hope runs on the republican side. If that happens we will see who wins the battle between his sort of policies or the democrat policies. We should want such a clear fight. All reading of Walker suggests he’s a great campaigner - - bring it on and let’s see where the American people fall on the issues. If the Dems win then I hope the republicans get the message that FAR RIGHT policies are done with on the National stage. If the more moderate Bush runs it will be less clear what policies the national electorate are in favor of.
Yes. Yes he is. He is the PERFECT Republican Candidate (i.e. sociopath)
He is:
A Republican nominee selecting Scott Walker as a running mate is exponentially graver for the nation than the Vice Presidential “Game Changer” in 2008.
There would not have been a motion picture depicting the Trainwreck Sarah Palin represented had a large chunk of the American electorate thought of Palin as being at least halfway competent.
The same cannot be said about Scott Walker. Alongside of the spate of Republicans competing for the nomination, Walker will come across to swing voters as bland (and therefore as “serious”) as Jeb Bush (who, other than being bland, has not done much else)
And Bush is, as we speak, the top-rated Republican candidate.
Bush-Walker
A very bad idea.
In theory, on paper that is. Walker in real life is a calamity. The media will carry him a while but the watershed moment is upon him.
Being more conservative means alienating more people but thrilling the base. We couldn’t ask for much more except possibly numbnuts himself, Trump, to be the candidate.
I have no problem with your optimism. In fact, at this time especially, it is what we need. My pessimism is probably based (along with my being the son of a military officer who never wanted to be surprised in the Field) on the transition I usually have to make between a young adulthood spent with people who never had the opportunity to vote as freely as people do in the U,S and the culture we have in the United States, here and now.