Posted on 02/23/2015 11:43:34 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oddly, the cardinal attribute now sought in a presidential candidate is the ability to successfully evade horrid questions. And Scott Walker is learning that the hard way. The Wisconsin governor’s most recent error was complaining aloud about a puerile question posed by the WaPo about what Walker believed President Obama believes about Jesus Christ. In so doing, Walker gave the kind of response his questioners were hoping for, because the words “I don’t know” were part of a soliloquy on media bias. A question like this is the rhetorical equivalent of throwing a wolverine at a man’s face and then writing the headline: “Candidate struggles with wolverine attack.” Well, yeah... But the wolverines will keep coming, and so will the honey badgers, ferrets, otters and the rest of the family Mustelidae. And if you want to be president, you’d better find a way to deal with it.
This is Walker’s second such error. On a trip to London earlier this month, Walker let his internal monologue slip out when he said he was going to “punt” a crummy question about evolution. When being treated like a native shipped back to England by Captain Cook, it would be tempting to say much worse than that. But even announcing the “punt” was bad enough. What Walker said subsequently was just fine. But his blurted intention to evade was all that anyone will remember. If you want to dodge, just look to the president, who has punted for more yards in Washington than anyone since Sammy Baugh. The president just boots that sucker down to the other end zone, the ball carried aloft on great gusts of windy words.
In order to fulfill the media narrative in which Jeb Bush is the sensible candidate trying to tame an insane Republican Party....
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Walker needs to quote Obama and say the matter is “above his pay grade.”
Unsteady? Jeez. Even the ‘right’s’ media is hopelessly compromised.
Chris Stirewalt surprises me with these off the wall conclusions.
Besides the Pundits and McCain, who else thinks Jeb Bush is a frontrunner? Who are thse isiots polling? After the final 2 - 3 years of the last Bush administration, who on this planet think another Bush could win a general presidential election.
It’s not like black and Mexicans are going to vote for him. If conseratives don’t vote for him.... Well, I just don’t see how Karl Rove, Mit Romney and John McCain are going to generate more than a few thousand votes.
They are so obsessed with getting something to stick to Walker. The onslaught has only begun.
Ted Cruz won over 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2012. Any Republican who does that well in 2016 will win the White House.
Does anybody doubt that Fox is in the same spot on the “conservative to liberal” scale as GOPe?
These people are amazing. They are all drinking from the same faucet. No one except for self proclaimed insiders (Stirewalt included) thinks Walker has done anything wrong... and Walker knows it.
The uniparty and media allies clearly want Jeb to lose to Hilary. Walker isn’t in the script.
This is Walker’s second such error.
Fox News is all in for Jeb. They are trying to marginalize Cruz but will pounce on him whenever they see chinks in his armor
Bovine scat. “I don’t know” was the perfect answer. Don’t feed the monkey.
Wow, Stirewalt. I would’ve expected better from you. Jeb’s campaign must’ve been in contact.
No, it’s even further left. It amazes me when people say that Fox News is conservative. Compared to whom? CNN and MSNBC? Well sure, who isn’t?
“unsteady”?
Why this descriptor?
He’s thwarting them in a pretty “steady” fashion.
Unsteady? Jeez. Even the ‘right’s’ media is hopelessly compromised.
Scott is not unsteady. He’s not “learning” how to handle the press. He’s demonstrating that he already knows how to handle them, though I’m sure he’ll get better and better at it.
The Christian question was comical. Only God and you know whether or not you are a Christian. They were hoping he would give them a red meat answer. He didn’t. So they are grasping at what vapor he offered them.
So did G.W. Bush—in Texas. I think “Hispanics” in Texas are more conservative than the rest of the USA.
Aside from his Liberal politics he is brain numbing boring! Just watch his 2012 Repub Convention Speech.
Fox News has been trying to create a sense of inevitability around Jeb Bush for the past two months. FNC is becoming unwatchable and judging by Jeb’s poll numbers, they aren’t helping him in the process.
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