Liberal Madison paper Endorsement: Scott Walker best for jobs in race for Governor [WI]

Wisconsin State Journal ^ | 10-10-10 | Editorial Writer

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It's official! Wiscosnin Tax Hell has frozen over today! If the Wisconsin State Journal is endorsing Walker, it's in the bag, Baby! Wa-Hoo!

Um...but still fo vote, OK? LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wisconsin Conservative Politics Ping List Ping!

[bigbob]

Wow, that’s HUGH! Heads will be exploding on the talk shows tomorrow...

[Jean S]

In all the years that I've lived in Wisconsin I have never seen this paper endorse a Republican.

Read the comments, the libs in Madison are freaking out.

Comments

[Ann Archy]

Is that true??

[knittnmom]

Wow. That is astonishing!!

[Hoodat]

Wow, that’s HUGH!

. . . and series!

[Mygirlsmom]

It's official! Wiscosnin Tax Hell has frozen over today!

Has it ever! Never would have dreamed I would see this.

[Elsiejay]

During my years of Wisconsin residence, most recently in Dane County (1973-1987) the WSJ was the less liberal of Madison’s two newspapers. Is the Capital Times still being published?

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

LOL! One elitist complains that Walker doesn't even have a college degrees :

Certainly not everyone needs to go to college, but these days, I believe everyone needs to complete some form of post-high school education, in order to get ahead. Walker will be expected to communicate at a high level with the people of WI and around the world.

They really can't see how haughty they are!

[Jean S]

I thought this paper was the more liberal, I may be wrong. Yes, the Capitol Times is still online, I don't know if they have a paper version.

http://host.madison.com/ct/

[Kickass Conservative]

Didn't Bill Gates drop out of College?

Rush Limbaugh doesn't have a College Degree and he owns a Gulfstream 550, at least until they get done building his Gulfstream 650.

I don't have a College Degree, but I somehow managed to start out as an 18 Year Old Mail Clerk and retire as a 50 Year Old Regional Vice President for a Fortune 500 Bank.

It's called hard work and dedication, not whining that somebody else owes you a living because you have a fancy piece of paper and memories of drunken Frat parties swirling in your head.

[Hunton Peck]

Huh? School finance reform? Competitive tax structure? Business development? Okay, Mr. "Writer", who are you and what have you done with the real Ed Writer of the State Journal?

Oh, wait:

...excessive pandering to social conservatives on issues such as embryonic stem-cell research and abortion.

Whew! For a moment there, I thought there had been an unreported kidnapping. But even the implicit acknowledgment that there might be such a thing as non-excessive "pandering" to social conservatives, and that the type of stem cell research in question is only embryonic, is suspicious. Better keep an eye on this "Writer" guy, and make sure he doesn't try anything funny.

[SatinDoll]

My grandfather never had a formal education past 4th grade.

After enlisting in the U.S.Navy, he recognized that the people who rose within that organization had special skills, so he taught himself to type. He left the Navy as the youngest Chief Petty Officer in WWI.

When he retired twenty years later, it was from an oil company where he had been the resident expert on contract law and an assistant to the company's President.

Note: if he had gone to college and earned a bachelor's degree he would have been made president of that oil company.

The man to whom he'd been an assistant died unexpectedly and grandpa ran the company for several months. But without that ‘sheepskin’, the board of directors chose someone else. In some businesses, it's just required.

[the crow]

wow! pretty cool!

[Hamilcar_Barca]

It's unbelievable!

[sgtyork]

Walker did attend Marquette University in Milwaukee... just hasn’t finished a degree. He worked for IBM, it would be interesting to learn how that happened without a degree.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘Tis true. :)

[driftless2]

The Journal is not very liberal. Now if the Madison Cap-Times (Wisconsin’s Progressive Newspaper) endorsed Walker, that would be something.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Is the Capital Times still being published?”

If I’m remembering correctly, they went to a FREE ‘late in the day’ edition to continue pimping their propaganda while they were going belly-up and bleeding dollars...

I truly haven’t seen a stand with the FREE ‘Crap-it-all Times’ in ANY convenience store or gas station in recent memory...