Monday, October 20, 2014
Want to keep the Homunculus out of the White House?
At this point, the easiest way is to do whatever you can to get Mary Burke elected governor of Wisconsin. According to all the political pundits, if Scott Walker can't win a second term it will blow the little Kochsucker's chances right out of the water.
In June 2012, the morning after Scott Walker became the first governor ever to survive a recall election, the talk of higher office began in earnest.Will Wisconsin wake up from it's four year nightmare? We hope so because it is the best way to keep the nightmare from spreading to the nation.
Some conservatives said his victory instantly placed him in the mix of potential Republican candidates for president in 2016. Then came a memoir, and then a trip with other potential candidates to a meeting widely understood to be an audition before Sheldon G. Adelson, the casino billionaire and top Republican donor.
But that was then.
Now Mr. Walker, 46, finds himself in a political corner, locked in a rough fight to hold on to his job. But as he battles Mary Burke — a Democrat who was once the state’s commerce secretary, appointed by former Gov. Jim Doyle, but barely known statewide until this campaign — Mr. Walker’s day job is not all that is at stake. His currency as a presidential contender will surely vanish if he cannot win a second term as the governor of Wisconsin.
Even as Republicans are buoyed by hopes of retaking the United States Senate, Mr. Walker has his back to the wall. So intense is the fight that the governor, who defined himself by clashing with labor unions, is pressing to get his political base to the polls. In a state that twice has picked Barack Obama, Mr. Walker might have pursued a more centrist strategy. Instead, he is talking tough, as he did the other day here in Green Bay, pacing around a truck garage, laying out his plan to drug test people seeking food stamps or unemployment benefits.
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