John Nichols: This is what Scott Walker has become

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/john-nichols-this-is-what-scott-walker-has-become/article_1fa0af16-0354-5613-81af-e9f4b2460d27.html

I have known Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker since he was a young state legislator. We used to talk a good deal about our differing views on how to reform things: campaign finance rules, ethics regulations, social welfare programs.

We seldom reached agreement. But I gave him credit for respecting the search for common ground. And for understanding that a disagreement on a particular matter is never an excuse for ending the search — or for disregarding others who are engaged in it.

But that was long ago. Scott Walker has changed a great deal — and not, I fear, for the better.

He is deep into a political career that has come to mean more and more to him. And, now, he is grasping for a top rung on the ladder: the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2016.

On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Walker was asked how he would respond to ISIS, and the “radical Islamic terrorism” he had condemned in his speech to the group. Walker told the crowd: “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the globe.”

[Scuba]

1. I'm with Warren. If Wanker thinks teachers and firefighters are the enemy ...

... it's time to scrutinize his friends.

[SmittynMo]

2. I wouldn't worry about it

Sure he's a snake in the grass, no doubt. He a power hungry idiot. Opening his mouth will doom him. Just give it time. "All in due time, my pretty". (Wizard of OZ)


He's just another clown on the clown bus. And no one on the bus knows where it's going.

[hue]

3. Errr, I'll wager the "clown bus" is going to hell-but not fast enough for Wisconsinites including me

[Borchkins]

5. And me,

and my union member parents and friends, my public school-attending kids, my elderly and disabled clients.

He is a Koch-fueled disaster for all of us.
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[n2doc]

4. Texas had a power hungry idiot governor in 2000

I will not sleep well until Walker and the GOP go down in flames in 2016.

[Cha]

6. +1

[loveandlight]

7. True words

sad but true

[SmittynMo]

8. +2