Governor Scott Walker is foolish

While at CPAC, the annual meeting of the faithful hard-right lunatics which form a large part of the base of the Republican Party, he was asked how he, a governor with no foreign policy experience, would deal with ISIS. He responded with this: “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.”

That set Twitter off. Here’s the best tweet I saw:

Charlie Pierce spared no vitriol:

Breathtaking, isn’t it? He didn’t “take on” anyone. He was the invisible man when 100,000 of his constituents came to call. He did everything he could to suppress the free speech rights of said constituents. And, with the abject cowardice and buck-passing that has marked his entire public career, Walker trotted out a sacrificial spokes-drone to “clarify” what he meant when he compared the chanting of middle-school teachers to bloodthirsty barbarism.

Walker aide Kirsten Kukowski issued a statement Thursday clarifying his earlier comments, saying: “Governor Walker believes our fight against ISIS is one of the most important issues our country faces. He was in no way comparing any American citizen to ISIS. What the governor was saying was when faced with adversity he chooses strength and leadership. Those are the qualities we need to fix the leadership void this White House has created.”

Anybody that was in and around Madison in those days knows how laughable Walker’s claim to “strength and leadership” during that time is on its face. He was the invisible man, using outside money and the Capitol Police as his shield and buckler.

Walker is a two-bit faker whose career is propped up by outside financiers who want a puppet in the White House. He’s an anti-union, anti-education anti-poor featureless little crook whose every campaign has had tinges of fraud about it. He shouldn’t be the nominee of a major party for County Executive again, much less for President of the United States.