Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The Curious, Friendly Minimalization Of WI Gov. ("Wrong-Way") Walker

Though he has twice been endorsed for election by the state's #1 daily paper, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and is running hard for another term while previewing a bizarrely delusional 2016 Presidential bid, a strange meme of Walker self-marginalization and friendly devaluation has crept into the discussion.

It's as if Team LeBron would market him during NBA free agency with talking points like, 'He can't really help your team' or 'If you sign him, don't expect any leadership on game plans.'

Back to Wisconsin's Stagnator-in-Chief:

*  Though Walker's signature pledge to create 250,000 new private sector jobs is a more evident failure by the day, the newspaper;s editorial board is giving him an out it didn't include when praising him for battle-tested, out-of-the-box thinking in Editorial Endorsement I.

Now the paper's position is - - you know...there's not that much any Governor can do when it comes to job-creating.

Imagine if LeBron tanked with a new basketball team and his agent told the disappointed, ticket-buying fans, 'well, there's not that much that any one player can do to win a championship.'

*  And look at Walker's changing, shrinking-violet, aw-shucks flip-flop on same-sex marriages he'd long opposed, and which his Attorney General and partisan GOP colleague J. B. Van Hollen is further fighting - - with state funds:

'My position doesn't matter.'

He's had an opinion on everything from the federal debt ceiling fiscal cliff to Ryan Braun's PED use to where to find a good quesadilla.

If what he thinks and does is so unimportant, and the job he wants another crack at is really all about ribbon-cutting, and who knows what else - - restaurant recommendations? - -  then why not send him on his way and find someone else who will do more with the position?

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