John Nichols: Scott Walker: desperate and hypocritical

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/john-nichols-scott-walker-desperate-and-hypocritical/article_e9ca9e71-1980-52ab-8028-a70714274baa.html

Let’s be clear about one thing: Republican governors of Wisconsin have historically been big fans of Wisconsin-based businesses.

So, it should be noted, have Democratic governors.

Whatever the partisan or ideological divisions might have been, Wisconsin governors have rarely attacked Wisconsin companies, especially iconic companies that have brought the state international attention and acclaim.

Until now.

That Scott Walker is desperate to continue as governor is beyond debate. He needs to be re-elected to mount his 2016 bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Yet he can’t break out of a tie in the polls, which is a very bad circumstance for an embattled incumbent. That’s got the governor scared.

In his desperation, Walker has adopted a win-at-any-cost strategy that is radically at odds with his own party's traditions and the state’s political history.

The governor’s decision to launch an expensive, unrelenting media campaign attacking the business practices of Trek Bicycle — the company founded and run by the family of his Democratic challenger, Mary Burke — has little precedent in the modern era of Wisconsin politics.

[randys1]

1. I would get so angry here that I am shaking and my BP is dangerously high

but since half of the state wants a crook to steal from them, why do I even care anymore

WI, if you reelect this vile pig, this filthy crook, i never want to hear form you again




now i probably dont really mean that, but there has to be a limit as to how much insanity we can accept

[LoisB]

2. I hear you.

[sendero]

3. That is becoming my attitude..

.. throughout the land. You want contraception to be illegal? Keep voting for Republicans. You want the highest level of crony capitalism? Vote Republican. When they finally crash the economy totally and completely, I will survive while you can look in the mirror if you have one.

[Cal33]

4. Among other things Walker and his gang will be practicing fraud during the Nov. 2014 elections on

a scale never seen before. Wisconsin Democrats will have to watch him and his cohorts
like hawks, and never let those election boxes and bags out of sight -- day and night,
and you'll have to be ready to counteract against everything else crooked you think he
will try. He is a first-class sociopath.

[hue]

5. This is soo true!!!

[WI_DEM]

6. A Walker defeat would be the highlight of the November election

for me.