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Okay, that wasn’t such a big deal either. But the media and Clinton’s people (excuse the redundancy) have 27,000 emails to dig through. They are bound to find something they can hype into a scandal.

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The media is going to find something it can pin on Scott Walker. When it does, you will hear of nothing else until his national electoral prospects have been destroyed. Then it will be on to the next threat to the establishment’s chosen candidate, as genuine scandals are forgotten.

Anyone who isn't at least within broadcast distance of Wisconsin should refrain from making these kinds of pronouncements. There is nothing there. And the Unionistas and Birkenstock crown at Madison writing for Isthmus etc. tried to gin up something off of the investigation. There's NOTHING there. Whatever you think of Christie, there was something there. In Walker's case, a staffer used her own router and service in the Milwaukee county office to work on behalf of a Lt. Gov. candidate when Walker wasn't even on the ballot. Part of the investigation started because Walker himself noticed $40K missing from a military pension fund, which had been embezzled.

The unending press releases, demonstrations, vandalisms, assaults, phony investigations have made Scott Walker the most vetted candidate since Palin. It hasn't stuck, and all but the true believers have tuned out. The national resources of the unions were all poured into little Wisconsin. End result, he won his recall by MORE this time around. A bunch of incumbents are retiring because it is no longer a clubby atmosphere where the Doyle acolytes win, a number of Dems are signing onto tax cuts to have a seat for how they are allocated (property tax vs. income tax), and Mary Burke is pretty much the only name willing to get involved to run against Walker, and SHE won't commit to repealing ACT 10, which started this pandemonium. She can self-fund, however, so the Dems said they'd take it.

I am not normally an optimist, and Walker isn't perfect, but he is happy to get the job done without seeking headlines. His enemies make them for him.

I am sure that I would find things to not like about Scott Walker. However, as I look a the field of possible candidates out there, he is starting to look very good by comparison. He has a proven track record, can express himself clearly (does not suffer a speech impediment like GW Bush or foot in mouth syndrome like Rick Perry), and he is more conservative than then other GOP-E offerings.