Asymmetrical eyes. Not that it’s his fault.
So the third sitting governor enters the race, and all three have negative approval ratings in their respective states. Kasich would buck that trend should he jump in.
Walker ain’t nearly as smart as Nixon was.
Trump is a buffoon, so of course his message on immigration is a bit rough. But I don’t think he’s literally saying “the Mexican government tells them to do it”. He just speaks in those sort of “us vs them” terms. I’ll also grant you that insisting that Mexico pay for a border fence is silly.
But it is true that Trump is the only candidate who seems to be clear in his position on illegal immigration: He’s against it. The rest of them (and the Democrats most of the time) are an incoherent mess when they are pressed to explain their own statements about immigration. Jeb Bush’s position on the issue is a complete mess. I have no idea what he wants to do on immigration at all.
Trump is a simpleton, but he’s at least right about the most important issue facing the country and has the balls to say it, even if he doesn’t say it in the most eloquent way.
Does Trump support the criminal prosecution of American business owners that illegally employ undocumented immigrants?
Absolutely (with just a little a special exemption for the hotel, hospitality and rental-property industries)!
Walker definitely has a better chance than others, but I wonder really how popular he is, or will be as the election goes on. He does have higher numbers than other candidates, but his support is dropping. His approval ratings in Wisconsin have dropped.
And I know that some people hate unions (though I don’t completely understand why). But more recently he’s going after other worker protections:
There are some candidates who I don’t like but I can at least understand why they are popular, but I honestly don’t understand what anyone sees in Walker.
When did Trump ever talk about wealth inequality?
My impression of Wisconsin is half the population is waiting for the second coming of Joe McCarthy so I’m not worried. Walkers WI numbers won’t translate across the country.
This now brings the number of declared Republican candidates to 15 (counting only those featured in major polls). Still waiting to hear from Kasich and Gilmore.
It’s not the “people hate unions” it’s that public sector unions shouldn’t even exist. The normal back and forth at the negotiating table between management and workers doesn’t exist with public sector unions. Instead it’s an unholy alliance of workers/voters electing public officials who pay them back with salary and benefits that bankrupt the government. It’s a win-win for the public sector unions and for the politicians but it’s a bad deal for the taxpayers who have to foot the bill.
The non-public sector unions aren’t “hated” by most, but they do need to be reigned in from time to time. But public sector unions are a completely different animal.
As to Walker’s popularity, I’ve heard this story a few times now. He’s always very unpopular, according to Liberals. Yet, whenever there’s an election he seems to win, even the recall efforts that were attempted.
Yes, Scott Walker is popular nationally BECAUSE he is unpopular in Wisconsin. It’s an inverse relationship. The more Wisconsin’s liberal public-sector unions whine about Scott Walker, the more popular he gets nationally.
Hmm…
Very interesting.
5 years ago when I posted in several threads that Scott Walker would be a rising presence in the Republican party, and a viable Presidential contender in the future I was strongly rebuffed.
Yet here we are.
If I was one of those who rebuffed you, I’ll offer a sincere congratulations on a good prediction. Was I one of those? 'Cause I honestly don’t remember.
But why? Just ordinary contrariness? People aren’t whining about Walker for no reason:
I admit, that if I heard Republicans constantly talking about how terrible a Democratic candidate was, I might if he’s good to get them so upset. But then I’d look at his record to see if there’s anything to recommend them. And I don’t see what people would like about Walker.
I don’t know if I’ve posted before about Walker, but if you had asked me 5 years ago I might not have picked him as a rising star. It seems that the main thing he has going for him is being associated with the Koch Brothers, that definitely helps his trajectory as a candidate.
He checks all the boxes for Republicans. Governor… hates unions… believes in trickle down economics…hates higher education… bought and sold by the Kochs… it’s like GOP Central Casting found him at a soda fountain.
What on Earth are you talking about?! How is the public-sector union vote any more powerful than the private-sector union vote?
Cite? I’m a Federal worker and union member (former local president) and our union has exactly the same negotiating structure and back-and-forth any union in any other sector.
This sounds to me like a modified version of the “government workers are incompetent/evil/on the take” canard. We don’t have any higher of a percentage of bad employees than workers in private industry, no matter what Fox News tells you.
Let’s not forget Scotty’s vise-like grasp on foreign policy. The greatest foreign policy victory in his lifetime was Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers.
Scott Walker doesn’t hate all public-sector unions. His restrictions on unions did not apply to the police and fire-fighter unions. Is it because they were the only unions that supported him in his campaigns?
Here in Minnesota we hear a lot about Walker and Wisconsin economics. During this same time we’ve had a pretty progressive Democratic governor (Dayton) who raised taxes, increased public funding for education and public works and enacted many environmental reforms. Comparing the two states will be a major point in the campaign, since Minnesota has a strong, thriving economy in spite of higher taxes; the consensus here is businesses realize how worthwhile the state spending is to attract quality workers. Wisconsin on the other hand has had a tough time recovering from the Bush recession. One counterclaim is Wisconsin has more job growth the last years, but that’s only because job growth was stagnant for so long their unemployment rate is higher than in the neighboring states.