The Koch's Will Likely Try To Buy Presidency For Scott Walker.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Looks like Scott Walker is the Koch's favorite son. They will do all they can to protect him and advance him to the White House.

[Yavin4]

1. Good luck with that

Scott Walker aint never winning the presidency.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. I Hope That Is True And They Waste A Lot Of Money On Him.

[MineralMan]

3. Make it so. I can't imagine a better choice in the GOP clown car.

If ever there was a regional errant son candidate who had zero chance of winning, it's Scut Farkus Walker.

[upaloopa]

16. So how did he win 3 times in Wisconsin?

I think there is a proportional rate of dumb fucks in the national electorate as there is in Wisconsin.

[MineralMan]

18. He lives in Wisconsin. Nobody else knows who he is.

He has minimal national name recognition. Not a chance.

[upaloopa]

19. Well after $890,000,000 worth of adds they will have

the Koch's idea of who he is.

[MineralMan]

20. It won't work. He'll be out by Super Tuesday.

Between Romney and Bush, he doesn't have a chance in actual real primaries where real people vote. He's a teabagger, and teabagger's aren't going to be winning the Presidency. Ain't happening.

[Scuba]

22. Don't underestimate this guy. He's a bona fide hero among the red meat crowd, just glib enough ...

... to survive the debates and has managed to avoid having any of his own shit stick to him, at least so far.

He's clearly obedient to the Kochs and I can see them spending a boatload of cash to support him.

[MineralMan]

24. They'll spend their money as they see fit, I suppose.

It's a pity that they can do that legally. However, there aren't enough teabaggers to get anyone nominated for President. Not nearly. And Scut Farkas Walker is a teabagger. The front-runners aren't even participating in the teabagger events. And they're not going to. I'm more worried about Bush and Romney, to tell you the truth.

The Koch's can waste their money, as far as I'm concerned. I hope they do, during the primaries. That's what I hope. Let them exhaust their funds there.

[Initech]

17. Pass the butter. This election is going to be more fun to watch than I thought.

Another election cycle, another ride on the same GOP clown car, with the same selection of clowns.

[Arkana]

4. Money doesn't buy votes.

Mitt Romney proved that last time out.

[n2doc]

9. Money can suppress votes, though

2014 proved that.

[titaniumsalute]

28. 2014 wasn't about suppressed votes

Dems DIDNT vote.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-democratic-vote

[n2doc]

30. 30 % turnout rates aren't only because dems didn't vote.

[titaniumsalute]

32. What is the source on your statement?

How many Dems were surpressed and couldn't vote? Which states?

I'm not saying that the right hasn't tried to surpress votes...but we need more info than someone just saying that this happened. I'm a Dem and I voted. You? I know lots of Dems who all voted without a problem.

[Art_from_Ark]

44. A lot of the mushy middle voters voted for the opposition party

as they are wont to do during mid-terms-- a trend that has been almost constant (just 3 exceptions) since 1910.

And for the record, Arkansas, which had been a heavily Democratic state at one time, saw a much higher than normal voter turnout in this last election-- and yet, the Democrats took the worst beating they have ever had in the state since Reconstruction.

[Arkana]

38. No, 2014 proved that our side doesn't seem to give a shit

about midterm elections.

Republicans are willing to hold their noses and vote no matter what. Why aren't we willing to do that? These old, angry racists would walk through fire over broken glass to cast their vote for Republican candidates.

Until we have a base that is equally devoted we will continue to get shellacked in non-Presidential years.

[n2doc]

43. Maybe leadership doesn't give a damn

People at DU love to blame voters, especially Democratic voters, and even more especially progressive Democratic voters. Instead of trying to understand why people stayed home, they just insult them. We shall see how well that works in 2016.

One of Obama's gifts in 2008, and somewhat in 2012, was to give people something TO VOTE FOR. To INSPIRE them. All I saw in 2010 and 2014 was a concerted effort to avoid giving people something TO VOTE FOR. Telling people that you are the lesser evil, that you are just like the Republicans except not crazy, doesn't work. Making them believe in you does. I may wish that he had stuck more closely to his campaign rhetoric but that is a separate issue.

Republicans are devoted because their party generally doesn't go around lambasting them. They throw them red meat rhetoric and double down.

But my main point is that in 2010 and 2014, Democrats allowed the Republicans to set the memes, set the agendas, and set the fears. They did not fight back sufficiently against the EBOLA/ISIS/BAD ECONOMY/Illegals fear mongering that was going on 24/7. THey seemed content to think that people would vote for them if only they could run a few more negative ads. All I see coming out from negative ads are repubs remaining enraged and democrats/independents becoming disillusioned with both candidates and staying home. Republican voters are fueled by hate to a larger degree than other groups. Inspired people will walk through fire to vote. But they have to be inspired.

[Orsino]

25. It buys millions of votes, and suppresses millions more.

It can make charismaless clowns like Romney and Walker look competitive.

It can nearly buy a Bush a victory over a Gore or a Kerry, but it can't quite defeat an Obama or a Clinton.

[n2doc]

5. They were sure pushing him on RW hate radio the other day

Dennis Miller's show. He just luvs him some Walker.

Do not underestimate Walker. The Koch's know he can be depended on to do their bidding, no matter what the outcry, and to do the dirty work to keep his opponents out of power. Think Nixon with big money backers.

Honestly, the GOP field is wide open, and if JEB cannot scare everyone away, then the nomination could go to a 'washington outsider'. And we have just seen how the RW can call on the media to coordinate a vast propaganda effort on behalf of their candidates.

[Myrina]

6. While I agree with the first part of your premise ...

.... the egos in the GOP/TP candidates are just too massive to meekly step back and let Snot take the nomination, regardless of what their Koch-owners tell them to do.

The "debates" and convention are going to be popcorn worthy this cycle.

[merrily]

7. Paging Richard Trumka and all other union leaders. Paging...

[tkmorris]

8. Won't work

Nationally Walker is tainted goods. I don't think any amount of money can buy him the presidency.

[TheNutcracker]

10. Walker looks funny and our shallow society will not thinks he looks good enough

Sad as that is he's going nowhere. He looks cross eyed. I don't want to be shallow and didn't even really want to post this. It is not the reason he should not be the President. (there are so many good ones!) But that is what the underlying feeling will be, though no one will want to talk about it. So I wanted to bring it up here to watch. It will be the real underlying reason he doesn't resonate.

Face it. We live in a society where people are supposed to look like celebrities. People here die trying to get there. Surgery, starvation, etc. The President of the United States is number ONE. Our shallow society will not like way Walker 'looks'. (no pun)

Now, after they troll this post, will the Koch's researchers move on from this possible thought?
Walker looks funny.

[femmocrat]

12. He is a cartoonist's or caricaturist's dream.

These were some of the nicer ones! LOL

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. It's been said he looks like a cartoon character who stepped on a rake and got smacked in the face.

[Dont call me Shirley]

29. Or like Assad of Syria

[Gidney N Cloyd]

37. I always thought Assad looks like Clyde Crashcup.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. One of his eyes is higher than the other, making him look a bit like

this guy:

[BlueStater]

36. The guy always has the same dopey, sleepy-eyed expression on his face.

[Greybnk48]

41. Seriously. He has a head shaped like Gumby's

he's fricking cross-eyed, he has rat teeth and he talks through his nose. Not to mention his offset bald spot that does not occur naturally in humans.

He's just a click away from the male Sarah Palin, speaking in cliches and sound bites, but he does have a small group of rabid followers here in Wisconsin. Mainly racists and bigots who want to have someone who speaks for them. The sort that are attracted to the Klan.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

45. Funnier than this fella?

[Blue Owl]

11. Isn't it preposterous

That untold millions will be spent on this dimwit drop-out.

Wake up America and reclaim your dignity!

[olddots]

13. I have little faith in this nation

Tricky Dick set the bar so low that anything could happen in 2016 and America could fo back to 1016 .

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. 1016 in continental North America was probably waaaay better than it is now.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Just look at what the Koch Bros. did to Wisconsin.

Watched my home state go from one of the most Progressive to something akin to Somali. Wisconsin and Kansas are the new model State Governments,and,with the Koch money funding the Brich Libertarian model people better get a grip. And Casino's are not going to save their butts,and you can not cut to save. Waiting to see any new data as to the pending catastrophe that has hit these states. From what we hear from the relatives in Wisconny,it is not pretty. For those less fortunate,persons with disabilities or health issues as well as unemployed,are getting crushed by service cuts and payment amounts being cut or being eliminated. Like I say,from first to worst.

[global1]

21. Why Do THe Kochs Like Walker So Much?.....

What's so special about Walker that make the Kochs want to spend all this money on him?

[LondonReign2]

23. He will do absolutely anything they tell him to do

He is completely compliant -- the Koch's dream politician

[Dont call me Shirley]

26. Walker is damaged goods.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Anybody remember how Wanker got phone pranked

by the guy who was pretending to be one of the Kochs? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/scott-walker-buffalo-beast-phone-prank_n_827058.html

Comedy gold, that was, and it will surely be mentioned again if he climbs into the GOP Clown Car this time.

[Kalidurga]

34. Good he will win no blue states

and probably lose a few red states.

[Bluenorthwest]

35. They tried to buy a Senate seat for Monic Whelby in Oregon and got laughed out of the State

They ran off early in disgrace, she lost by a good 20 points. Without them she still would have lost but not quite as badly and without quite so much derisive laughter pointed in her direction.
Of course we vote and all of that stuff. I recommend it.

[hifiguy]

39. Not even the Kochtopus' money can elect

that sniveling little shit POTUS. To quote that wise philosopher B. Bunny, it is to laugh.

[Cha]

40. I'm sorry.. but, why does he appear to look so stupid all the time?

[edhopper]

42. Those who forget history

are doomed to repeat it.

Don't think someone is too dumb or too much of a conservative reactionary to become President.

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