I love Walker also. The problem is he just isn’t fast enough on his feet to keep up with the national media interchange.
For those of you that do not know him from Wisconsin, his main message that worked here (and he delivered on once in office) was a more specific problem to Wisconsin where the govt. unions had taken over day to day operation of the State for their own interests.
Walker worked that important (but local angle) for over a decade. It allowed him to create solutions and rehearse them enough to explain them well. But the national jetstream of issues is too fast moving. Walker couldn’t keep up.
The ironic part is that a critical component of Walker’s support was from private sector manufacturing workers either laid off or who had their jobs downgraded due to foreign competition over the years. These folks didn’t like being forced to pay taxes over and over again to support much better paid WI State govt. workers. These are precisely the people impacted by low paying foreign workers flooding the US.
But Walker’s donors were big GOPe business interests so he couldn’t use Trump’s message.
I think you hit it here. Excellent analysis. Maybe if he gets elected to the senate and serves a term or two he'll be ready. Clearly not now, though.
Hank
Actually, it seems that every single state and local government is ripping off the taxpayers by way of the unions but to regular folks, that's how government works. The union problem takes a lot longer to explain to people than illegals taking jobs and killing people.
I meant to add that Walker should have spent his time explaining to America why unions needed to be reined in, rather than talking about the results of what he did.