Right off the bat, he gets one major thing wrong:
The Wisconsin governor, who does not rule out running for president in 2016 after winning his June recall election, wants to help elect as many GOP candidates as possible in 2012. He’s told Mitt Romney’s campaign that he will travel anywhere the presidential candidate thinks he can help. Walker plans to forcefully fundraise for the Republican Governors Association, which spent around $15 million supporting his last two campaigns. And the governor sketched out plans during a Monday interview to support a batch of candidates this year in the Badger State.Well, OK, I'll give him half credit for this. He's not ruling out running for president because John Doe will rule that out for him. Felons can't hold office.
“I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that,” he said.
Asked about 2016, he added: “I’m not announcing for anything.”
And he's probably not making any plans because he doesn't know what will happen with the federal and state charges that are coming his way.
But on this one, I completely and utterly hope he is correct:
“I’d like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally,” he said. “I’d like to have an impact.”Yes, indeed. Can you imagine how much fun it will be to have Walker tied in closely with Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and any other number of Republican politicians and causes when he gets arraigned and indicted for all of his illegal activities?
They'll be tripping over themselves to get away from Walker. Furthermore, all the national attention will come pouring in, but with a different point of view, and it will rapidly become self-evident that Walker's - and the Republican's - agenda isn't working as more people find themselves unemployed, underemployed and underpaid. As things continue to fall apart, and Walker is facing charges that will make Blago look like a saint, it could set the Republicans, and the powers behind them back by fifty years.
But Walker really, really tells his biggest lie of all time towards the end of the article (emphasis mine):
Walker stresses that his office initiated the investigation while he was still a county executive. He said he got upset when he saw Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, level criticisms that he says have been debunked during a post-recall appearance on CBS.Walker please.
“They’ll repeat the same things over and over, no matter how many times they’re proven wrong,” Walker said. “It’s just one of those ridiculous things…Most people who comment on it don’t know anything about the particulars.”
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Indictment, please come SOON!
ReplyDeleteScooter was never one to let anything resembling governance interfere with his good times campaigning alongside crony capitalists.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that Indictment is going slow because they're after somebody upstream from Walker.
ReplyDeleteThere is in fact no federal constitutional bar to a convicted felon holding the office of President. Many states do have such bars, but not the United States.
ReplyDeleteThat might be true, but it is highly doubtful that, with the exception of the deepest Kool Aid drinkers, this would play well with the voters.
DeleteI dunno. There were over a million voters stupid enough to elect Walker more than once, and millions more who voted for George W. Bush not once, but twice.
DeleteI have lost a lot of confidence in the level of intelligence of today's voting public.
And don't forget that other Governor Scott, the one down in Florida. I still can't figure out how voters down there could have thought electing a convicted fraudster would be a good idea, or even worth a try.
DeleteThere's also the guy who's in federal prison in West Virgina, who actually got more votes than Obama this year, and will have some small number of delegates at the convention, accordingly. Don't underestimate the stupidity of the general electorate. *sigh*
DeleteWalker is one of those guys who has a knack for failing upwardly. Milwaukee County voters were only too happy to be rid of him, and so, I'd predict, will a large contingent of statewide voters, should he appear on a national ticket. But each time he moves up, he leaves a flotsam and jetsom in his wake. And don't assume that a Vice President Walker would be harmless. No, he'd be working overtime to become president, even against the interests of his boss and his country. Think Dick Cheney without the skill set.
ReplyDeleteI believe you're referring to the Peter principle.
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