Um. Well. Yes, of course Scott Walker is going to run for President.

This is news?

In a 35-minute speech here at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, the governor mentioned the name of his home state no fewer than two dozen times—and referenced “our state” or “my state” on at least 30 other occasions.

It all fed into the contrast Walker is eager to strike. While President Obama’s Washington, Walker says, is spending big, expanding the federal bureaucracy, and taking a “top-down” attitude to governance, Wisconsin has cut costs, shrunk the size of government, and adopted a “bottom-up” approach.

Walker’s speech left little doubt that he will run for president in 2016.

This is apparently news. I knew that Scott Walker was going to run for President just as soon as the Presidential election was called in 2012: the combination of Walker’s recall win and Mitt Romney’s loss made it pretty much inevitable. And yes, I knew since about mid-2013 that Walker was going to win re-election in 2014, too.  I never quite understood why other people seemed to be more uncertain about that, but then again I usually am quite ridiculously optimistic about things…

6 thoughts on “Um. Well. Yes, of course Scott Walker is going to run for President.”

  1. are we still allowed to elect someone whose personal style is something other thanrunning around yelling “LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME?”?

  2. And if he get’s the nomination, he’ll get my vote. How could I not vote for “Throne of Skulls”™?

  3. i’m a little bit torn tho. Perry is just fine too. and Jindal demonstrated actual moral clarity in a speech. decisions, decisions….

  4. this sounds so much like a partial plot outline for one of those steamy pre-civil-war movies… i know being a Dem covers a lot of sins, but this many?? and the black community is saying not a thing about it apparently… not even the minsters. amazing.

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