I have plenty of these to buy your approval.
It's been pretty nice to see Scott Walker flailing and failing since his dismal showing in the last Republican debate. Seriously, they should have just placed drying paint at his podium. It would have been similarly interesting.
So, what's a slick career politician gonna do when voters get a whiff of reality and find they don't like it? Go on a media tour with a charm offensive, plenty of BS, and start spending piles of money on ads, of course. Nice to have billionaire backers willing to spend their money to ensure their puppet gets elected to office to serve their interests.
Unintimidated PAC plans to spend $9.25 million in South Carolina, New Hampshire and Nevada, including more than $8 million in South Carolina alone, the group said Wednesday.
Please note that
this $9.25 is on top of the $7 million already spent on ads in Iowa (they begin next week and continue through February 2016).
Yup, 16 months from election day and more than $16 million dollars is being spent to pump up his poll numbers. It's the Scott Walker way particularly when media isn't reporting the way he wants and there are votes to be scraped up.
Here's the disgusting ad that will air complete with Walker's biggest calling card: beating up hard working public employees.
Yes, he's a tough guy when it comes to beating up teachers, librarians, nurses, and other public servants. In fact, he's even compared how tough he was on unions to how tough he'll be on ISIS! Like, somehow, they're the same. Ridiculous, but the base of low information voters he talks to just lap it up and nod agreement.
His latest charm and BS offensive brought him to Meet the Press where Chuck Todd tossed softball questions at him and allowed Walker to lie like a rug. Interview on the video starts 9 minutes in. Sorry, it doesn't embed. H/T to Ole Texan who found it when I couldn't:
Walker put on his best greasy smile, customary talking points, lies about how well Wisconsin is doing (his comparisons always begin right after our economy crashed), and even brought out the old, well-debunked story about how the "best teacher" got laid off because of union rules.
Well, that teacher wasn't the best - she self nominated for a best new teacher competition where there were few nominees, but she was declared the winner. She also wasn't laid off. Yes, she and many other teachers received layoff notices which are sent out routinely because Wisconsin requires a lengthy period of notice prior to layoffs, but she was never, ever laid off.
Chuck Todd said nothing, of course, and Walker's turd on the table was left lying there. As usual. Chuckie never seems to do his homework unless there's a progressive on the other side of his interview.
Walker is also planning a motorcycle tour of New Hampshire. I'm sure he's had refresher lessons on how to ride one as well as an appropriate wardrobe assembled for him to wear as he rides. As usual, don't expect him to have his butt on the seat until he's ready to ride into an event (or a camera is filming him). While he loves to brag about motorcycles, like everything else about Walker, it's another phony campaign stunt to make him appear like just a regular guy.
So look for Walker to claw his way back up in the polls. He'll be looking for attention saying and doing whatever he thinks is needed.
THIS JUST IN:
Scott Walker is now blaming President Obama (of course) for the killing of the police officer in Northern Illinois.
Gov. Scott Walker is linking a recent string of police killings to Barack Obama, calling the president a "divider-in-chief" and eliciting his own charged response of praise and censure.
In a column posted Wednesday on Hot Air, a conservative website, the Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential candidate addressed this week's shooting death of an Illinois police officer as well as a recent fatal shooting of an officer in Texas. Walker wrote that the first African-American president had failed to speak up for police and speak out about the "inflammatory and disgusting rhetoric" used by some critics of law enforcement.
"In the last six years under President Obama, we've seen a rise in anti-police rhetoric. Instead of hope and change, we've seen racial tensions worsen and a tendency to use law enforcement as a scapegoat," Walker wrote. "This kind of attitude has created a culture in which we all too often see demonstrations and chants where people describe police as 'pigs' and call for them to be 'fried like bacon.' "
Look for more outrageous hyperbole from him in the future as he tries everything to scramble his way to the top.
Remember, this is a skillful and dangerous politician.
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