Walker & Bush are both in the news, with respect to alleged stumbling blocks

[Jackpine Radical]

in their histories. For Jeb it's the Schiavo case. His people are already out desensitizing the public to the whole thing, and the Walker gang is doing the same thing with respect to the boss's lack of eddication. By getting these mini-skeletons out early, they pretty much eliminate them as problems later down the line. Get it out now; the public will forget in a couple of weeks (let alone an election 21 months in the future).

I think it will come down to Bush v. Walker in the Primary, unless something explodes in the stalled & sputtering investigations into Walker's past.

Who else is there, really?

None of the ideologues and True Believers will ever be acceptable to Big Money, but no Republican can win in November if either the Tea Party or large numbers of libertarians stay home.

Bush has the power of the BFEE behind him, while Walker has carefully nourished his record as a snake who will do anything to please Big Money, while pushing a cultural-conservative agenda designed to endear him to the snake handlers & Lumpencrackers.

[merrily]

1. I am certainly no fan of the rabidly anti-union Walker. However, I do feel compelled to note

that Dimson kind of did prove that a great education can leave you more embarrassingly ignorant than lack of a good education.

From what I've read, Abe Lincoln didn't have much schooling and I'd take him over Dimson any day of the week.

That said, Walker is no Abraham Lincoln. I guess I am trying to say that I don't think an Ivy League graduate degree would help Walker.

But, hey, let Bush attack Walker on any ground he can and vice versa. I'll enjoy the show.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I don't dispute what you say about the value of an education to Walker, and

in fact I can readily imagine him turning it to an advantage in portraying himself to the rubes as one of them.

However, the education story has been in the news nationally, and I'm almost betting that they did something to plant the story in order to get it out of the way early. This smacks to me of professionalism in message control--on the parts of both Team Jeb & the Warriors for the Weasel. It promises to be an interesting primary--if you're the sort who goes in for watching train wrecks. And I have to confess I do have a fondness for Republican train wrecks as a form of entertainment.

[merrily]

3. Yep. My advice: lay in a supply of popcorn early, esp. if you live in a blue county. Stores are

likely to run out soon.

[HereSince1628]

4. Walker really isn't presidential material...he's very much like a Millard Fillmore

in that respect. And Millard got to the presidency by accident of fate.

He's the perfect radical to make Jeb look moderate, no one things VP much makes any difference (unless your name is Cheney), but having a person who has mastered the Libertarian dog-whistling could help Jeb with the unruly republican libertarians

So a Bush/Walker ticket seems a possibility.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Interesting speculation.

Just as likely as anything else we could conjure up out of very little cloth more than 1.5 years out from the election.

[HereSince1628]

6. It seems Walker wants to get away. He needs to avoid the teetering stack of cards

he's created this ~3 billion shortfall in the budget is his. He seriously branded it his by winning 3 elections.

Up and out is his best path, and the time is -now-.

I think this would make him amenable to the VP.

And seriously just read what's available on the web about Fillmore, the parallels in know-nothingness are remarkable.