Brainiac Scott Walker reveals GOP secret plan: Win with male voters! - By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

Walker hopes a male backlash can help him defeat Hillary Clinton. Here’s why he’s wrong again

JOAN WALSH

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has some advice for his party about how to beat a female candidate, namely Hillary Clinton. (Emily’s List’s Jess McIntosh explores “the Scott Walker Playbook” here.) He thinks his success defeating rival Mary Burke, a businesswoman whose only political experience came as a Madison school board member, makes him qualified to face down the most popular living female in the U.S. and the world.

Analysts have marveled at Walker’s willingness to alienate female voters with his ugly embrace of a 20-week abortion ban that includes no exceptions for rape or incest. But I think he revealed his strategy to deal with the gender gap in his race with Burke last year: He thinks he can drive up the male vote with tone-deaf attacks on abortion and pay equity.

Asked about Burke’s strong support among women, he turned it around and claimed that the real problem was Burke’s unpopularity with male voters: “[T]he bigger trend is not if I have a gender question, it’s actually that she’s off the chart from where a Democrat normally is, gender-wise, with male voters as opposed to female.” In the end, Burke’s margin with female voters wasn’t enough to beat Walker in Wisconsin.

Walker thinks the same strategy will work with Hillary Clinton. But again, he’s way out of his depth, extrapolating from a Wisconsin race against a political neophyte to offer advice about beating Clinton in a 50-state campaign. He sounds especially clueless talking about pay equity, suggesting the policy is part of Clinton’s strategy to “pit one group against another group out there.” He told Boston Herald Radio: “I believe that the president and now Hillary Clinton tend to think that politically they do better if they pit one group of Americans versus another.”

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[Thinkingabout]

1. SSSSHHHHHH, don't thell him the population falls on the female side. Also, do you think

he is on any groups side but white men?