The Five Words That Ended Scott Walker's Presidential Ambitions

By Jeff Simpson 

Scott Walker has been feeling rather full of himself lately.  That has been known to happen to a career politician with three big wins under his belt.   

Mr. Walker, fresh off a "victory" in a recent Iowa extremist retreat, has taken the current pole position as driver of the clown car for the Iowa Caucuses.  

Scott Walker, apparently with no one to advise him, decided to step out of the comfort zone of Fox News and headed to meet with an actual reporter.  

Scott Walker decided to sit down with Martha Raddatz, from ABC News and "answer" some questions.   The problem for Scott Walker is, he did not see what he was about to be hit with.   Ms. Raddatz, being an actual reporters, did something to Scott Walker that has never been done before.   

She asked a follow up question!  

Walker was stunned by this of course, since he has not had to answer any tough questions for at least five years.   

When someone had the temerity to ask "But what does that mean?..." .  

Scott Walker was flabbergasted. 

 He gave his best Sarah Palinesesque answer, but then in the end, advocated for more war and "boots on the ground".   

He might as well have answered "Umm .....you know all of them".  

Don't get me wrong, Scott Walker is not done campaigning for President after today. He will continue to travel the country, spend our taxpayer money and probably compete for the first few primaries with the craziest of the crazies.   Then he will slowly fade into oblivion in the other 49 states. 

One day when answering a trivia question about Scott Walkers failed Presidential bid, you can point to February 1st, 2015 as the beginning of the end.  

Hugh Hewitt Makes Amends

Small time, right wing radio host Hugh Hewitt was the one, who when interviewing Paul Ryan (R-voted against Hurricane Sandy Relief), asked him the question about being a marathoner.  The one that Paul Ryan lied so badly when he answered it, that it is something that will always stick with him.  

We all know that Paul Ryan does NOT like to be humiliated, so Hugh Hewitt needed to do what others before him have done.....grovel at the Boy Kings feet! 

Hewitt recently did just that(however as you see, Ryan was not smart enough to accept the apology or turn it around to clear himself so Hewitt did the best he could):

HH: Speaking of the election, I want to turn there for just a couple of minutes. And first, I want to begin by saying when you were on the show the first time after your nomination, I surprised you with a question. And I never clear my questions with anyone, but I surprised you with a question about your running, and I’m sorry about that, because you didn’t have a chance to check with your brother.

PR: Well, I just forgot. I mean, it was, what, 22 years ago? I hurt my back when I was like 24 or 25, and I quit running. But I used to run a lot, and I’d literally just forgot what the time was, and I threw it off the top of my head. That was the mistake I made. I ran an ordinary time. I thought I gave you an ordinary time answer. Apparently not, because I just forgot that the sense of these things.

HH: But that was an illustration of the environment in which the campaign operated.

PR: Yeah.

HH: …where hypertechnical gotcha overtook the big issues like we’ve been talking about.

PR: Right. Yeah.

Of course Hewitt should have known better, Hugh should have known the republican VP's can not answer a simple question unless they have prepped for it:

 Those gotcha questions really got the past two Vice Presidential candidates who it turns out had more in common than we realized!