Steel cage match: Scott Walker v. Ted Cruz (Reader Poll)
Only one leaves this poll standing.
The race is on.
Scott Walker is expected by everyone to run for President, and already has formed an exploratory committee.
Ted Cruz is set to announce on Monday that he’s running, skipping the exploratory stage.
These are two Legal Insurrection favorites based on prior polling, so let’s see how it sorts out.
Steel Cage match up. Only one exits this poll standing.
If Scott Walker and Ted Cruz were the only choices, who would you choose?
Poll Open until Midnight (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 23, 2015
Comments
I flipped a coin and voted for Walker. Either one would be great, but I don’t see the GOP elites allowing anyone other than another #$%^&* RINO on the ticket >:O
The GOP elites didn’t want Reagan in 1980, but we got him, thankfully.
The poll should include an option “Either of the above”, which would probably capture 90% of the votes.
Walker for President. He has low profile (humility) appeal. And, with his tenure as WI governor he understands the cause and effect of government policies.
Cruz can continue to be the conscious of the Senate until he becomes president…down the road.
I meant “conscience”, not “conscious”. I have no doubt Ted Cruz is conscious…of the Senate.
(I can’t work and think at the same time. Shhh. Don’t tell my boss.)
I’d be ecstatic with either one. Went with Cruz because he announced first, but Walker has the executive experience. He’s also PWN’d the teachers’ union in WI. Cruz drives the Left insane but so does Walker, so in my head it’s pretty much a draw. They’d be unbelievable together (unfortunately the GOP would never permit this) or as a 1-2 punch with Walker as pres. and Cruz as the conservative Senate agitator.
Here we go again. Cheering for candidates with big personalities but ZERO executive experience in governing, zero experience in dealing with the Media Complex, zero record for advancing economic freedom.
The difference between Cruz and Walker is the difference between a business owner who puts out a product that only he will like but won’t sell and one who puts out a product that he might not like but will sell.
Walker for President.
Love Cruz, but two obvious points to make.
No Senators.
No one in their first term.
Steel cage match? The choice is obvious:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ted_cruz_poster.jpg
I was 25 when Reagan took office, and well remember how both the network and print news media and the GOP insiders tried to paint him as some trigger-happy cowboy who’d get us all killed by Russian missiles. The same will be said about Cruz – again, by his own party. Good.
I also remember being in love with two girls at the same time, and that is how this poll made me feel.
I was just a wee bit older when Reagan took office in 1981. (“Wee”, she said.)
I agree with your assessment of the media. It gets beside itself around principled people and hyperbolic for a headline. In Reagan’s case, he was too handsome to be ignored and he said things rarely heard in those days. He came out shooting with self-deprecating humor and pointed truths about the current political scene that the news media loved to broker.
But, I can’t say that I felt the same exact way and with the same memories as you did about the poll.
I defer to Shakespeare in matters of love….
“Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I like both as well, but chose Cruz. He seems to have the “it” factor which is hard to put into words. I heard him speak in person, but haven’t heard Walker – maybe that is why I think that.
They both fight – which is what I want more than anything!
The public union problem is a great campaign issue, as so many states are burdened with these dirty union deals, and even non-union liberals seem to get that, if WI is any example.
Walker needs to be clear about border control, while avoiding “self deport” type language (even if true). It’s cultural suicide to allow foreigners that break our laws to vote and demand entitlements. (or some strong stance against open border PC mentality, as if we owe the world). Maybe something about needing to employ poor black America before we invite the rest of poor Central America. Strong country must have strong border.
International affairs … recognize the spread of geopolitical adversary Russia and their allies, and the Obama/Hillary surrenders (Romney was right). Walker has no leg up on Cruz here, except unions have solidarity with Che, and hate James Madison. In that sense Walker has faced down the domestic arm of “communism”. (And he can see Canada from his house … being a Republican, he has to avoid any claim to international experience, while adroitly skewering Dem’s on it)
Madison, WI provides a nice segue. “Vices of the Political System”, Madison delineates this argument clearly.
http://www.alleghenyinstitute.org/americas-biggest-mistake/
The apparently illegal John Doe investigations give Walker another soapbox to stand on, to decry use of bureaucracy as an enemy of a free republic. That covers IRS assaults, Ferguson race card, EPA CO2 pollutant farce, commie core coercion of states, pass it to find out what’s in it, etc.
Walker has faced “live fire” where he was running a state being undermined by unions and Democrats, facing recall and John Doe prosecution, and “winning”. Cruz has faced the hot air of Reid and backstabbing of Boehner, but it is all inside the beltway theatrics. Debates will make both stronger, and one should emerge as our candidate.
Ted Cruz and Scott Walker! I’m putting my $ and my vote on Ted!
The Republic is surely on its last legs. Cruz is obviously not a natural-born citizen; neither is Rubio or Jindal. We are so corrupted that the plain language of the law no longer matters, even on a supposedly conservative legal blog. Substance and principles no longer matter. Worship of the exotic reigns, which is nothing more than an adoption of modern liberal-progressive hatred for America and American values.
OK all you GOP lay abouts, I have your answer for a 2016 election win.
First, why does it have to be an either/or vote for Walker/Cruz? Let’s rock & shock those liberal progressive snakes in 2016! Let’s have Walker and Cruz get married and then it doesn’t matter who is elected, they can drag the other one into the WH with them!
The GOP would loose some of it’s base during the election, but the dismal Democrats would take up the slack on that problem.