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Scott Walker pressed for specifics at Club meeting
By James Hohmann
2/28/15 1:37 PM EST
PALM BEACH, Fla. Two days after provocatively suggesting that standing up to organized labor in Wisconsin has prepared him to fight terrorists overseas as president, Scott Walker told a crowd of conservative donors on Saturday that the most significant foreign policy decision of his lifetime was when Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers.
Walker, who became a national figure by picking his own fight with public-employee unions, was responding to tough questions about his economic plans and national security chops at the Club for Growths annual meeting here.
Candidly, I think foreign policy is something thats not just about having a PhD or talking to PhDs. Its about leadership, he said. I would contend the most significant foreign policy decision in my lifetime was made by a president who was previously a governor. A president who made a decision that wasnt even about foreign policy. It was in August of 1981, when Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.
Frayda Levin, a member of the Club for Growths board of directors who was moderating a question-and-answer session, told Walker that he left donors unimpressed at a meeting in New York earlier this month. That private session came one day after another controversial Walker event where Rudy Giuliani declared that President Barack Obama does not love America.
More: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/scott-walker-club-for-growth-meeting-2015-115617.html
This guy is practically Palin-level of stupid. How did this fucking bonehead win three times in Wisconsin?
valerief
(53,235 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)LIHOP or MIHOP ?
Siwsan
(26,298 posts)He's definitely not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)... that he will fire the terrorists?
... and replace them with non-union terrorists?
... all because he doesn't have or know anybody with a PhD?
malaise
(269,200 posts)How else?
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)He also went to Marquette.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)A region of the state that remains teahadi red
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)The election went 52% Walker, 46.3 Barrett the difference was 6 percent but represents a swing of only 3% would have taken it the other way.
Recall/Special elections that took place was unfortunately a rerun of the 2010 election. Exactly the same candidates, the ACT 10 tyranny amd anti-unionism were the central issues behind the recall.
The rerun/recall election was held in June, not during the general election. This hurt Dems as dem voter turnout drops for non general elections and (on edit) that date was targeted to cage college and university student voters who would between home and college residences without time to change registrations.
VOter turnout was good. It was very good for the Teaparty which was very highly motivated by conservative talk radio and supported by out of state Koch money.
One more SE WI county went for Barrett The result was 53.1 Walker to 46.3 for Barrett. Pretty much exactly the same as the earlier election.
The 2014 election Walker ran against a candidate from the WI Dem right. For many years a DC lobbyist, then an executive in her family business...where she ended up painted with supporting the off-shoring of jobs that occurred at Trek bicycles. She was painted as a corpo-dem
Voter turnout in this election was 2nd highest in the nation for that off-year. Dem turnout was better in Western and Central WI. Again SE Wisconsin turnout wasn't strong for Dems. Dems voting INCREASED over previous elections but the increase wasn't great enough
Overall the election results were 52.3 for Walker and 46.6 Mary Burke DOES THAT LOOK FAMILIAR? It's pretty much exactly the same as the previous Walker elections. Again the difference would have been overcome with a 3% swing.
So. The lesson here is the state is closely divided, but the teahad has the upper hand. WIDem isn't running candidates with charisma or message that motivates voters. THe dem base IS voting and increasing voting and is still getting beaten. Money, Media, lack of motivating message or commanding personality are all factors