'Gaps' in GOP field present opening for Scott Walker

[applegrove]

'Gaps' in GOP field present opening for Scott Walker

By Terence Burlij at CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/31/politics/scott-walker-opening/index.html

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Washington (CNN)—Scott Walker says he sees "gaps" in the potential Republican presidential field for 2016. But is he the candidate best positioned to fill them?

On one side you have the establishment candidates favored by the business class of Republicans - Jeb
Bush and Chris Christie. But social conservatives and tea party supporters remain wary of them. They would instead prefer a candidate more along the lines of Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum or Ted Cruz. But mainstream Republicans have doubts about their electability in a general election campaign.

Walker is betting he can shoot the gap by appealing to both wings of the GOP. It's a formula that has worked for him in Wisconsin, says Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette Law School poll.

"Walker is someone who has strong support in Wisconsin among Christian conservatives and social-issue conservatives," Franklin notes. "And yet he also has strong support among the business community."



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[elleng]

1. He's got koch support.

That may be all that's necessary, because they can pay the media to play the necessary lying game.

[MohRokTah]

4. Koch support is NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH.

The Kochs are limited in how much they can personally donate to a campaign committee and the campaign committee MUST be capable of raising $1 billion.

Walker has nowhere near that kind of fund raising network.

He's a shoe in for Veep, but only Bush can raise the funds.

[SunSeeker]

8. In our post - Citizens United world, there is no limit on Koch spending.

The shell game of PACs and 501c3 orgs give the Kochs unlimited opportunity to get their pro-Walker message out.

[MohRokTah]

10. PAC spending and campaign committee fund raising are two different animals.

If a campaign committee is incapable of raising $1 billion, they are unelectable.

Period.

[al_liberal]

2. If this country is stupid enough to elect him.

Our epitaph will be as Dante expressed.

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"!

[3catwoman3]

7. Damn right on...

...that quote. The very thought makes me want to

[MohRokTah]

3. Walker is running for Veep and he's the front runner in that race.

He doesn't have the fund raising chops to head the ticket. That spot is reserved for Jeb Bush.

[CK_John]

5. Walker always wears a white shirt and tie, can't lose with the GOP.

[dballance]

6. The REAL gaps are between Walker's ears.

He couldn't even complete two years of Community College.

[winter is coming]

9. What gaps? Looks like the usual full spectrum of batshit crazy to me. n/t