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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#100601: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:35:40 PM

"Scott Walker cancels events to focus on Iowa and South Carolina" or "Scott Walker is looking like the next sick cow in the herd to be culled."

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is refocusing his Republican presidential campaign on Iowa and South Carolina, where his early popularity in opinion polls has crumbled with the ascent of Donald J. Trump, and he has taken the unusual step of canceling major speeches in Michigan and California this coming week to spend time in those two crucial states.

Mr. Walker, who has fallen in one key Iowa poll from first place in July to 10th place this month, no longer plans to appear next weekend at a prestigious Republican conference on Mackinac Island in Michigan or at the California Republican Party convention. Instead, his advisers said, he plans to campaign in Iowa — where he is holding events this weekend as well — and in South Carolina.

Mr. Walker’s advisers said the last-minute cancellations were not a sign of panic about the viability of his presidential bid but rather a recognition that at this point his time and campaign funds are better spent on Iowa and South Carolina. Mr. Walker regards Iowa, which will hold the nation’s first presidential nominating contest on Feb. 1, as virtually a must-win state that would energize his supporters and donors nationwide. And he has long seen South Carolina, which votes later that month, as another winnable early state that could give him momentum and stature in a large field of Republican candidates.

By skipping the events in California and Michigan, two states with larger and more diverse electorates than Iowa and South Carolina, as well as more delegates at stake to help win the nomination, Mr. Walker risks diminishing himself. Once a national front-runner, he increasingly looks like a regional candidate — hoping his Midwestern roots will win him Iowa — who is pursuing single-state strategies rather than projecting confidence across the country…. [

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#100602: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:39:25 PM

The GOP was the party that made it stick. Women's suffrage started heavily out in the interior west, actually, places like Wyoming were among the first to afford them the broadest rights, and those places were solidly Democrat, but it was the GOP who essentially mainstreamed the issue and helped get it to Amendment status, but that's also because the GOP was the mainstream party of the day.

Yay, screw you Scott!

edited 12th Sep '15 4:40:30 PM by Ogodei

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#100603: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:40:11 PM

[up][up]I want him gone. I dislike his "policies" so very much, and I'm not even on the same continent as the guy.

Frankly, I feel for everybody already affected by the crap he's pulled, and wouldn't wish more to join them even if I were in Bitch On Wheels Mode. -_-

edited 12th Sep '15 4:40:36 PM by Euodiachloris

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#100604: Sep 12th 2015 at 4:41:52 PM

[up]I want him gone. I dislike his "policies" so much, and I'm not even on the same continent as the guy.
Agreed. I just keep laughing at the "Deep bench" rhetoric, and that Walker was the one supposed to be most paltable for the Generals besides Rubio or Bush, and well.

The bench isn't so deep.

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100605: Sep 12th 2015 at 5:55:48 PM

[up]Its just short.tongue

Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#100606: Sep 12th 2015 at 7:03:11 PM

No, that's the bus. winktongue

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#100607: Sep 12th 2015 at 9:26:28 PM

Walker is more palatable in some ways. Guy keeps winning in a state that leans blue in presidential elections, and knows how to take on and crush unions. He's definitely one of the more dangerous candidates there, both ideologically and because we see that he has the skill to follow through on his own bad ideas.

I didn't know he'd dropped back to 10th place, though? Of course, the problem with Trump's ascendency and the scattered nature of the rest of the field is that everyone but Trump, Carson, and Bush in some polls is dangerously close to margin-of-error territory.

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#100609: Sep 12th 2015 at 11:11:24 PM

So basically doing what he's been doing:

Bang for his buck, focusing on on-the-ground operations, and the like, with Hillary's Emailghazi problems giving him breathing room to show his stuff, so to speak.

BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#100610: Sep 13th 2015 at 12:03:21 AM

Speaking of our favorite former First Lady, Clinton is shamelessly using infants (well, one of them) in her new campaign ads.

Hillary Clinton invokes her granddaughter, Charlotte, in her campaign's newest television ad, the first time she has done so. The ad, entitled "Every Child," is the fifth ad released by the campaign and will go into the rotation currently running in New Hampshire and Iowa.

"When I look at my new granddaughter, I think to myself, 'We are going to do everything we can to make sure she has opportunities in life. But what about all the kids?'" Clinton says to open the ad. The remarks are taken from a campaign event Clinton held in North Las Vegas, Nevada, last month.

"You should not have to be the grandchild of a former president to know that you can make it in America," Clinton says, using a phrase she often uses on the campaign trail. The ad tracks with what the Clinton campaign hopes to make their new focus: Clinton as a more relative and spontaneous grandmother. After a trying summer, the Clinton campaign has tried to reset itself in September, hoping to cast Clinton as more fun and free than she has been viewed in the past.

Campaign aides feel that casting Clinton as a grandmother and mother shows her as she truly is and makes her more relatable. Charlotte was born last September but has yet to be seen on the campaign trail. The ad features already-released photos of Hillary and Bill Clinton holding the baby in the hospital.

Clinton regularly mentions Charlotte on the campaign trail, however. "Bill and I just stand around watching Charlotte. Whatever she does we think is marvelous, nobody has ever done it before," she said earlier this month in Iowa. "She learns to clap her hands, we give her a standing ovation."

The ad continues with Clinton stating that her "mission as president" will be "to make sure I do everything I can, every single day, to knock down the barriers, to open up the doors, so that every child has a chance to live up to his or her God-given potential." The ad is similar to Clinton's direct-to-camera ad "Stretched," where Clinton argues that "raising family incomes is the defining economic challenge of our time."

And on the other side of the aisle, Walker is ready for verbal fisticuffs at the next debate, in the hopes people will start paying attention to him again.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is preparing to ditch his Midwestern-nice persona and show a sharper edge at the CNN Republican debate next week.

"I think we're going to step it up and be more aggressive this time," Walker told CNN Saturday, in between playing a game of cornhole and meeting tailgaters ahead of Iowa's biggest football rivalry: the Iowa/Iowa State game. "I really hope to be aggressive and make the case that we're ready to wreak havoc on Washington," Walker added.

In the first GOP debate in August, Walker played a more passive role, mainly waiting for the moderator to come around to him for his next question. "I'm a Midwesterner," he said. "We're pretty polite."

The wait-your-turn approach was a safe one. It meant Walker didn't make any major errors, but he also didn't appear to leave a lasting impression. Once the Iowa front-runner, Walker has watched his lead evaporate in the Hawkeye State. Just 3% of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa said they were supporting Walker in a new Quinnipiac University poll. Former reality TV star Donald Trump leads the field in Iowa with 27% support.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#100611: Sep 13th 2015 at 12:05:26 AM

You know I've always wondered who the hell thought cornhole was a good name for that game.

Oh really when?
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#100612: Sep 13th 2015 at 12:35:00 AM

[up]If in doubt, blame copious amounts of alcohol. tongue

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100613: Sep 13th 2015 at 4:49:37 AM

[up][up][up] Any port in a storm I guess. But how desperate are you to use your own grandkid as a pawn to further your chance of getting elected?

Now I really do hope Sanders gives her a smackdown.

[up][up] Its not just a game, its also a sex acttongue

Please don't ask how I know that.

edited 13th Sep '15 4:52:28 AM by Skycobra51

Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#100614: Sep 13th 2015 at 5:22:48 AM

[up] Re: grandkid, if she didn't, then without a doubt some Republican would try to turn it against her. There were shots taken at Chelsea when Bill was in office, and there's been shots taken at the Obama girls, so ... I don't really blame Hillary for using her granddaughter in a commercial, but the tongue-in-cheek mockery was too good to let pass.

Re: I'm going to pretend you read it on Urban Dictionary and ignore anything you say that contradicts this.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#100615: Sep 13th 2015 at 6:24:09 AM

[up] Didn't Al Franken call Chelsea ugly?

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#100616: Sep 13th 2015 at 6:38:57 AM

[up]If you're thinking of the incident that I am, Ann Coulter called her ugly, and Al Franken mocked Coulter for it in one of his books.

Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#100617: Sep 13th 2015 at 6:59:03 AM

[up][up][up] Its just never sat well with me when politicans use children(theirs or otherwise) to further their own ambitions.

Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#100618: Sep 13th 2015 at 7:05:16 AM

I'm not seeing the issue with a candidate mentioning children. Every candidate for president should be trying to make life better for them.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#100619: Sep 13th 2015 at 7:58:48 AM

I don't see the problem with what Clinton did either. Sure, if it was entirely insincere, like those sort of things often come off as that would be one thing, but I have no problem believing she actually means it.

True, using her granddaughter is a good way to tug on people's heart strings but that doesn't mean the message itself is false or she doesn't actually believe it.

BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100620: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:08:09 AM

it's wrong in the sense that it makes it look like she'll do anything to be president.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#100621: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:09:35 AM

I don't see how having family in an ad, children or otherwise, gives that impression.

edited 13th Sep '15 8:10:00 AM by LSBK

BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#100622: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:10:32 AM

because other candidates haven't done it.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#100623: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:12:25 AM

It's kind of a catch-22. If she doesn't bring up her grand-child, she'll be savaged for not being maternal enough and painted as a terrible woman. If she does bring up her grandchildren, she's painted as exploiting them. She doesn't have the luxury of leaving the kid out of things entirely because she's a woman and thus her breeding abilities are considered fair game in a way they aren't with men.

Thus sometimes the best way to keep the kid out of things is to make sure that they come up only as a segway in a controlled circumstance.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#100624: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:12:42 AM

A lot of them have been around kissing babies like the stereotype demands though, it's the same type of thing but with a twist.

[up] I would be more worried about grandkid = too old imagery.

edited 13th Sep '15 8:16:58 AM by Memers

TheyCallMeTomu Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#100625: Sep 13th 2015 at 8:20:12 AM

Bernie's Attack on Clinton?

Shingeki no Clinton.

<Goes off to find the inevitably Attack on Titan video superimposing Clinton's face on the titans?


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