Walker to punt his way across Germany, France, Spain, and Israel

[lutefisk]

This morning Walker dropped that he will be traveling to Germany, France and Spain on (wink wink) trade missions. It had already been announced that he will likely be traveling to Israel on a... trade mission.

These thinly disguised campaign trips are starting to add up- and we are paying the bill. By calling these trade missions, the Walker campaign is once again rubbing our faces in it. The Chatham House speech Walker gave on his London trip was essentially a campaign speech with references to Colby cheese thrown in. When Walker includes, "I've lowered property taxes every year for 4 years! What other governor can say that!" in his speech, it's a campaign speech, seriously. The announcement of the European tour should raise some serious questions about the legality and ethics of what he's doing.

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. It's Walker's "I'm Selling Off My State's Assets" trip. Wisconsin is open for bidding. Come on down.

[upaloopa]

2. Why was he elected three times?

I see all the protests against this guy and now WI is giving us Walker for president.
Why did you elect him?
On edit: I am sick of hearing that Walker won in a blue state!

[lutefisk]

3. Why is he leading in the Republican primary polls?

I think there is some sort of icky authoritarian, neo-fascist vibe that turns on a significant part of the population. We all know that he's a manipulative, self-serving, pathological liar, but that's ok with a lot of people for some reason...

[Blue Owl]

5. Someone must have kicked him in the butt

If that bandage is any indication...

[midnight]

6. Prof. Franklin lies for him in his polls.

"Why did Charles Franklin allow such as obviously flawed poll to be printed?" And this is the scary part- he did it because printing pro-Walker polls is what he's really paid to do.


http://jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-franklin-macivered-marquette-poll.html

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. I think he's got a Reagan kind of vibe going.

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He has this friendly, down to earth demeanor while articulating far-right positions so that they just sound like common sense. The guy is absolutely never ever off script. And then there are all the dog-whistle message to the far right racists and whack-a-doodles

[lutefisk]

11. He's been cultivating the Reagan vibe for over 30 years

As he not so subtly reminds us on his twitter feed

[Blue Owl]

4. Odds are the punt will be botched

n/t

[Still In Wisconsin]

10. Maybe even blocked!

Would be nice to see one of his punts spiked back into his face. He has such a lapdog media here in Wisconsin that he can say (or not say) pretty much anything.

[postulater]

7. He has his lackeys in place in Wisconsin so his work is done here.

No reason to hang around anymore.

He just wants to go on a publicity tour and let the world know how he has turned Wisconsin into a paradise.

[hue]

8. Plus Wanker needs "international expertise" on his WH resume.

[unionthug777]

12. the only expertise he has is

lying through his rat teeth. I despise him so.