“Wow! What happened to Scott Walker?”
The pundit class, left and right, is wondering what is left
of the Wisconsin Governor who took on Big Labor, and who enacted the most
comprehensive conservative reforms in one of the bluest states in the union.
The Wisconsin Badger who never gives up is facing an unprecedented hit from the
media, conservative and liberal, and has struggled to gain traction in an all
too big crowd of leading lights.
Is it all because of Donald Trump the “rodeo clown” (the perfect
insult from Charles Krauthammer)?. Walker was spot on when he indicted the
second debate on this: Carly
was destined to be a favorite
at the end of the night. Dr. Ben Carson is
rising in the polls, too, but honestly the conservative electorate must give up
the argument that only outsiders with no experience are on the only qualified
candidates left.
I come from California, people. I voted for Carly for US
Senate, and she lost. She was a CEO before that, which she lost. She neglect to
pay back campaign consultants, and she lost respect from key supporters. Since
then, she paid back those debts, but she was a lost cause then. It is still
lost on me why the current, justifiably frustrated electorate wants an
outsider. You can work on the inside and transform the state from the inside
out. Walker did just that in Wisconsin, and I want him to do more of the same
in Washington. Besides, Golden State conservatives had an outsider for Governor
in Kal-ee-for-nee-a. His name was Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the insiders took
him down. From the CTA to the Big Government lobbyists, he was all show and no
substance. The same applies to Donald Trump. By the way, guess who will be taking
over Celebrity Apprentice? What a coincidence. . .
I don’t want a mere celebrity for President. Neither did the
Framers, so they enacted the Electoral College to moderate populism and enhance
republicanism and diffusion of state power. Frankly, I am not surprised to see Walker’s
numbers so mind-numbingly low at this time. US
Senator Rand Paul was
taking some unprecedented hits, too, and surprised
many pro-liberty supporters for his falling numbers, but there were policy and
ideological reasons for his struggles.
With Walker, there is more to this seeming “Dead Man Walker”
media hype. First of all, this attack is so 2011, because Time Magazine called him as much
following his 2010 election, then his unprecedented Act 10 reforms which
followed. Despite Big Media calling him DOA, Walker walked all over Big Labor
and the Occupy Movement, and won three elections in four years, in Big Labor’s
backyard, I might add.
Since then, he weathered all the nasty legal wrangling from the
prosecutorial class
in the Dairy State, as well as Big Labor. A judge
recently slammed the Wisconsin prosecutors for their unprincipled and unjust
witch hunt against the governor. As for the national press corps, they have
targeted him over the slightest matters,
and nothing has stuck
. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Walker is battle
tested, winning three elections in a deep blue state. Would someone please tell
me why this make him “Establishment”? Walker gave the best retort to frame the
flailing front-runner: We don’t need an apprentice in the White House. We
already have one, and the electorate was had from the moment they bought and
drink the “Hope and Change” koolaid.
Now let’s discuss the second CNN debate. Walker laid some
good punches, and then the moderators turned their heads and all but turned off
the mike on the Governor, one
of only two candidates to mention Obamacare
, and the necessity of its full
repeal. On
MSNBC of all places
, the news anchors denounced this unfair disadvantage
tilted toward every other candidate except for Donald Trump. So, CNN steers a
debate promoting the Donald, and then the next polling lists Trump at the top
of their latest poll. Walker, who had the least debate time on the screen, got
the lowest polling.
What about  the
CNN “poll”
, and some of the details which have not seen the light on the
Internet? Reported just after the skewed, three-hour school yard brawl, the
poll lists high unfavorables for Trump. Walker remains unknown to a third of
the voters, yet already has plenty of support
to regain traction.
Readers
in Wisconsin looked through
the CNN “polls”, too, and shared their insights:
“REALLY? CNN? More left winged mainstream media! CNN also had Millionaire Mary
winning in Wisconsin, they also heavily favored Tommy Barrett the Ferret!” The
names refer to the Democratic gubernatorial candidates whom Walker defeated.
Another post commented: “I find it almost (NOTE: ALMOST) interesting that 25%
of "likely Republican voters" don't know who Walker is. Kind of
indicates a vote based on preconceived ideas rather than knowledge. Sad, but
totally unexpected.”
No kidding.
Still, Townhall’s
own Matt Vespa has asked the question: Should
Walker step aside and sit down
?
Should he? Six days before the CNN free for all and the
governor’s purported free-fall, Vespa
reported
on the unethical USA Today
reporter who had signed onto the 2012 Walker recall. Fair and balanced, are we?
The same USA Today (predictably) reported that Walker “failed
to deliver
”.
How about letting voters decide instead of the media?
A recent straw poll in
Illinois
places
Walker at #1
. Whether the governor’s supporters influenced this outcome seems
a small matter, considering that hard core activists in the Midwest still want
Walker. Consider also the analyses from left-leaning Politico, left-wing Mother Jones, and campaign former
opponents: Don’t underestimate Walker.  Vespa
himself referenced all these points in his latest post on Walker’s perceived non-viability.

Here is my first
letter to the local press
on behalf of the Governor as he took on Big
Labor. “Don’t Back Down, Governor Walker.” Today, I write: Keep Walking,
Governor Walker.” We’ve seen the “Dead Man” come back to life and win before,
and he can do it again.
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