Interviewer notes that Scott Walker's ideal presidential candidate sounds like Walker

[alp227]

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Source: The Capital Times [Madison, WI]

In a voiceover during a segment of ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that included an interview with Gov. Scott Walker, the network's Jonathan Karl cut right to the chase.

"When Walker talks about the kind of candidate Republicans should nominate in 2016," Karl said, "it sounds more than a little like he is talking about himself."

Asked to describe the ideal GOP presidential candidate for the next election, Walker said those with Washington ties need not apply.

"I think it's got to be an outsider," he said in the interview. "I think both the presidential and the vice presidential nominee should either be a former or current governor, people who have done successful things in their states, who have taken on big reforms, who are ready to move America forward."


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ABC: Scott Walker on the Ideal GOP 2016 Presidential Candidate: Members of Congress Need Not Apply

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I wonder if Karl of the "liberal" ABC News ever asked Walker about Walker's campaign being under investigation for possible campaign finance violations. Seriously, the media is now pimping SCOTT WALKER as a 2016 contender?

"Liberal" USA Today also granted a softball interview to Walker.

[MoreGOPoop]

1. K & R

Koch Babies do not make good representatives of The People.

[monmouth3]

2. You mean the one they almost recalled? Oh, please, please, please, let him be the one...n/t

[Brewinblue]

3. He can't be talking about himself.

Walker says the candidates must be "people who have done successful things in their state."

[Jack Rabbit]

5. +1

That means the state is a success under Walker, right? So, where is the evidence that Wisconsin is better now than before this Koch-addled fiend became governor?

Here's a thought for a dream GOP ticket in 2016:
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WALKER - BACHMANN in '16
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Like McKinley campaigned from his front porch in 1896, this team can campaign together from their quarters in Levenworth, Kansas. They'll make orange jumpsuits fashionable.

[tblue37]

9. Both candidates on the ticket can't be from the same state. Remember, that is why

Cheney had to pretend to live in Wyoming, not Texas, in 2000.

[CatholicEdHead]

10. They are not from the same state

Walker is WI, Bachmann is MN.

[tblue37]

11. Yes, of course--I had a senior moment there. Upper midwest states

tend to blur together for those of us in the middle midwest states.

[alp227]

14. Does he remember The Quitta from Wasilla?

He should've warned McCain 5 years ago. But back then Walker was a mere county executive and had no business meddling in presidential candidates.

[Blue Owl]

4. Look, there's Walker on "This Weak"

n/t

[Lasher]

6. Link does not work.

Maybe it has been changed since you started the thread, I don't know. This one takes me to the article I'm sure you meant to link. will you please update your OP to furnish this link?

http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/todd-milewski/interviewer-notes-that-scott-walker-s-ideal-presidential-candidate-sounds/article_d0ade5ee-4fa0-11e3-a43f-0019bb2963f4.html

[alp227]

7. whoa thanks! URL got screwed up when i was copying and pasting nt

[Alhena]

8. He doesn't pass the look and sound test

Doesn't look or sound presidential. For all his girth, Christie looks and sounds more presidential than this guy, who seems like an insurance salesman. I worry more about Christie, though I doubt either could beat Hillary.

[Brewinblue]

12. Christie vs. Hillary

Is there really much of a difference? If elected, I would expect both to move to basically the same "moderate" Republican position. Remember, the Rodham family was always firmly entrenched in that territory.

[robersl]

13. I Hope He Runs

No reporter in Wisconsin has yet had the kahoonas to ask him how it came to be that he hired an entire staff of criminals when he was County Exectutive in Milwaukee.

We'll see if the national press corp lets that one slide by unaddressed.

[Jimbo S]

15. No worries

I predict his 2016 primary opponents will take care of that.