The MSM is terrified to death of him.
They should be. He’s been my preferred candidate for a couple years. Among other things, college degrees are highly overrated. Many of the “elite” who have them aren’t really educated; they’re just credentialed.
[Update a while later]
Here's the deal, MSM. I'll pretend to be upset by Walker's lack of college transcripts, if I can see Barack Obama's.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 12, 2015
Gov. Jindal is my preferred candidate, but Gov. Walker is my 2nd choice and Gov. Perry is 3rd.
I like both him and Sen. Cruz. I’m going to start donating to both of then.
Can you suggest how I can do this for Gov. Walker?
If the Wisconsin unions couldn’t find any dirt on him across three vicious elections, there isn’t any dirt.
If they can’t find dirt, they will fabricate dirt.
Definitely my choice this time around. This is a man who produces results:
Good governance results
Political Destruction of his foes results.
Among other things, the MSM needs to be taken on and crushed as a political adjunct of the Democrat party. Fahrenthold’s article is exhibit #1 as to why. They did this to Palin. Only difference was Palin was neither willing or knew how to crush them.
I think this guy does.
Interesting how the Press is digging into Walker’s college years when they never showed any interest in doing the same on Obama. It seems Obama’s college transcripts are more closely guarded than state secrets, as proved by Manning and Snowden.
Walker has way too much baggage to be president! There are already rumors that, during his school years, he was illiterate. (Kindergarten, in this case). There are also claims, which may even be true, that he was known to wear a coat during the Wisconsin winters.
The media will surely expose such awful scandals, just like they did with Obama’s close relationships with terrorists, racists, and America-hating preachers. Oh, wait…
And underneath those clothes he is stark naked. In public! And in front of children!
I currently don’t like any of the truly active candidates — Democratic or Republican. Both parties are too much on the side of one group of bullies or another. Corporate America is hostile to unions. They also — entirely too often — abuse their workers so much that work is affected very much in the negative. And the government? Let’s just say that the Columbia investigation showed an agency where people at the top did not listen to people at the bottom. There are reports of a great deal of suppression of dissent at NASA. It isn’t just me or a handful of other independent types who once had worked at NASA or as contractors somewhere.
Personally I want to see The Drug War ended, the police demilitarized and corporate elites and their organizations democratically reformed.
I live in DC currently and still have some political connections. I also have some friends who are amused at my stories of how The Funny Party will win in 2016 with an assist from The Penguins. This weekend I might make a few comments at a few events.
I will also make a brief comment about college education. My degree from Rutgers was in physics. My father earned his degree in economics from Rutgers in 1935. His father — the first Charles in the Divine family — earned his degree in chemistry from Rutgers in 1890. Back then only 2% of Americans had a college degree. I have gotten the impression that college has changed considerably since way back then — and for the worse, not the better. Oh — people in my family — on my father’s side — have been going to college for centuries.
I will finish this post with a link to my blog piece Believe. The first part is about Rutgers. The second part is about my involvement with space exploration and development.
They made up Sarah Palin’s school records. Making up Obama’s shouldn’t be hard with all that practice.
The thing to like about Jindal is it allow us to call them racist no matter their positions. Walker is battle hardened.
Scott Walker not a college grad? Harry Truman wasn’t a college man, but was very capable when it came to handling some of the crisis of the early Cold War. Minor events like the Berlin Airlift and blockade, the Greek Civil War, the Turkish Straits crisis, signing off on the Marshall Plan and the formation of NATO, were all handled very competently by Truman. One time he also gave a rather impressive lecture to some of his advisers about the history of the Middle East. Not a college grad, but the man did like to read. Then there was a man named Arthur Wellesley, later known and the Duke of Wellington. He wasn’t a college man either, having never studied at any of the Big Three of his time Oxford, Cambridge, or Trinity College in Dublin. But like Truman, he was self-educated. When he was sent to fight in India early in his career, all he did on the six months it took to get there (sailing ship) was read the big pile of books he brought with him. And we mustn’t forget that it wasn’t Wellington who sailed into exile after Waterloo. The Demotwits have a very thin team for 2016. That’s why they’re coming up with aerogel dense hit pieces.
Minor events like the Berlin Airlift and blockade, the Greek Civil War, the Turkish Straits crisis, signing off on the Marshall Plan and the formation of NATO,
Well, our current President won a Noble Prize, but seems not to know what JV means or the difference between a terrorist act, random shootings, workplace violence, or spontaneous demonstrations. He might even be around for another Greek Civil War, Turkish Straits Crisis, and the dissolution of NATO.
No, the Russians overrunning the Baltic states and Georgia, the PLA having a go at Taiwan,or testing how committed Omoronski is to the US-Japan Defense Treaty, one of these Jihadi bacteria colonies coming up with a dirty bomb, Israel hitting Iran because they feel Omarxi betrayed them, the Saudis buying their own n-deterrent from the Pakis at Walmart prices because they feel Omarxi betrayed them, to, too, etc.
It’s not that he’s just not especially bright, it’s that he’s a traitor as well. His negotiations with Iran over their n-weapons program is a case in point. He and Ms. Rasputin, aka Valerie Jarrett, know damn well the mullahs won’t keep any agreement they sign. That’s a form of Treason, it’s just not the thirty pieces of silver type of treason. But the USA and the West as a whole must hang their heads in shame over what the Crusaders did a thousand years ago. He’s of the Left, and he and all his kind are traitors, not just to the USA, but to the West in general. A good description of them is that they’re culture traitors.
The real question is whether or not the Wisconsin GOP is willing to give Madison back to the Democrats in exchange for the White House. Or, put another way, are the policies and measures put into place by Walker going to be able to survive if he gets a promotion? If not, it seems like a very dangerous game to play to put him on the ticket in November 2016 if it results in losing all of the ground they gained on public unions and the like.
I don’t pretend for a minute that the thought hasn’t crossed the minds of the local GOP leaders; I just hope that they’ve thought of a reasonable plan of succession should Walker win the nomination and head to Pennsylvania Avenue. The alternative, as I’ve seen in my own state, is hanging the guy out to dry just so that you can keep him at home “where he will be able to do more good”.
Never understimate the power of short-sighted party politics…
This Buckley quote certainly applies with respect to Walker’s college background:
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.