The Koch Brothers haven't made public their selection criteria for their favored Presidential candidate, but with the selection of Scott Walker a primary criterion becomes clear. Walker is the most spineless, sneakiest, creepiest, most manipulable little piece of crap they can find. The Koch Brothers are channelling Dean Wormer on this one: "Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit just like you."
Walker has made a career of being a toady to the wealthy interests in Wisconsin. He's been upping his ambitions and seeking ever more wealthy sponsors since his foreshortened college days. His programs, never features of his campaigns, have been strictly directed by his superiors providing him money and his future. Not to psychanalyze the guy, but to psychoanalyze the little weasel, a not-well-off son of a preacher comes to realize he wants what his wealthier school pals have. Not having the innate intelligence or personal diligence to reach prominence and position more normally, like being a physician, lawyer, businessperson, entrepreneur, or engineer, Walker became a professional political toady.
In the few clips that have come out of Walker campaign events, we can see him as he cottons up to wealthy donors. "We need to divide and conquer", he tells one matron. He calculates how many turns to put in his shirt sleeves as he rolls them up. He buys his clothes at ordinary stores and makes a point of letting people know. He controls the communications that come out of his operations with ferocity and responds to the slightest slights. He surrounds himself with ambitious lackeys whose futures they tie to his, lackeys who will violate the law on his behalf, who send around emails that show how much contempt they really have for constituents other than their financial benefactors. He has an open political microphone at a reactionary Milwaukee radio station and newspaper. He is a control freak like his political genetic predecessors.
He resembles no politician more than Richard Nixon, with the same dark poor boy psychological needs, the same control-freakiness, the same martial order among subordinates, the same vengeful response by subordinates to imagined threats, the same personal cowardice, the same grandiose personal ambition, the same instinct to nose up to money, the same instinct to nose up to wealthy and powerful conservative interests, and the same fundamental dishonesty between his words and his deeds. Hell, with the cheap clothes claim, he's even had a Checkers moment. He just wasn't smart enough to bring the dog. Either that, or dogs are smart enough to stay away.
The good news: he is Nixon without Nixon's formidable intelligence. He wasn't even smart enough to weed out a fake Koch call after he was first elected. He's not smart enough to avoid having scandal get so close as to leave a singed odor even if he avoids prosecution himself.
Walker is not smart enough to avoid having his policies come back to show his incompetence and the disastrous effects of his sponsors' directions. He would have been better off doing as Nixon, and Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio, going into the Senate where he could be an attack dog for his sponsors without having to face any account for policy. He followed he path that said GOP governors had the best shot at the presidency with the more applicable experience as chief executive in a state. The problem with being a governor, these guys are finding out (Christie, Huckabee, Brownback, Jeb Shrub, Rick Perry, this is you we are talking about) that their results ultimately matter. If you put your state into a tailspin or get indicted, it's easy for even low-information Republican voters to figure out what you will do to the country. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your GOPer governor-cum-president will do TO you.
But Walker is Nixon in the same way that Nixon was another Neidermeyer.
The Kochs have found just the right Neidermeyer to put on this president thing. Scott Walker is just the right Neidermeyer.