Brimic said:
WOW! That's unprecedented! Did he use the jawbone of an ass? (Judges 15:16 KJV )
Whatever he did, can we get the playbook? Maybe we could use some of it here in Colorado.
I must research him further.
(I don't actually find fault with so-called flip-flopping. Sometimes it's simply due to a reassessment of values completely apart from mere political necessity --due to better information or whatever. Sometimes.)
Terry, 230RN
Mainly, what Walker and the WI GOP "did",
was have the intestinal fortitude to stay the course when everything in WI went "rodeo", and were willing to deal with people "hating them". Granted, for the GOP, that in of itself is
miraculous.
The Liberals, Democrats, and the .gov unions mainly did Walker's job for them, by looking petulant and unreasonable, and then downright insane. The MONTHS of protesting, banging drums in the Capitol rotunda, hippies taking dumps in odd corners of the Capitol, the protesting, the whining, the screaming, the Democrat caucus of the State Senate running for IL and hiding out in a hotel to try and prevent a quorum.. all of it worked against them.
And then add to that the army of (many shills imported by unions from out of state) going around and circulating the recall petitions angering many more.
The Republican base was enraged and energized, the apolitical/moderate/undecided voters were disgusted by what they saw, and even some moderate Democrats were absolutely put off too. And Walker won his recall by a higher margin and with more turnout than his original election.
By far, I think he's the most fiscally conservative of the entire GOP field, save Paul. And perhaps more importantly, he's fiscally conservative in a somewhat more realpolitik "let's move the ball" sort of way vs. grand gestures that won't get through Congress even with a GOP majority.
And because of his time holding office in what are otherwise very hostile and withering liberal/Democrat enclaves, as County Executive of Milwaukee, and now Govenor of WI in Madison (worse than Berkeley in many ways...), he might also be the candidate who slides to the center the least, even counting Cruz and Paul.
If you're looking into recent politics in the state, you should not neglect to also look up "lawfare."
This.
The Milwaukee DA, as retribution engaged in YEARS long Grand Jury-ish (Called John Doe in WI) investigations/prosecutions against Walker, and almost every conservative 527-type group in the state. Came up empty of course, but there were literally dawn raids on the homes of normal people to seize papers and computers, terrorizing kids, and then having everyone placed under a gag-order.
Serious "It can't happen in America!" kind of stuff.
Here's a cliffs-notes version of it all, and now it's looking that it may not have been just local WI revenge run amok, but could have been coordinated much higher up, and tied to the Lois Lerner IRS scandals...
http://watchdog.org/series/wisconsins-secret-war/
