John Nichols: Scott Walker's unintimidated rewrite of his own history

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/john_nichols/john-nichols-scott-walker-s-unintimidated-rewrite-of-his-own/article_5c5da199-a64e-5f6f-a812-fd51fa0bae10.html

There is a case to be made that the most shameful moment in Scott Walker’s frequently shameful tenure came in February 2011, when he was recorded casually discussing the idea of using agent provocateurs to stir up trouble during the mass demonstrations to protest his assault on labor rights.

Now he’s making that episode even more shameful by claiming it was all a big misunderstanding.

In the book he hopes will make him a competitor for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, "Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge," Walker claims that "we never — never — considered putting 'troublemakers' in the crowd to discredit the protesters."

That is what Walker must write if he wants to make a play on the national political stage. There is no way that someone who considered using deliberate provocations — in order to create a false impression of peaceful political foes — would be taken seriously as a potential commander in chief.

The problem, of course, is that what Walker is now saying conflicts with what he was saying in private and public two and a half years ago.

[madrchsod]

1. interesting comments in the newspaper..

walker actually thinks he can win the nomination let alone the presidency? he must be smoking some of that stuff being grown in that lab in madison.