I don't really care that Scott Walker didn't finish college -

[hedgehog]

what I care about is that he doesn't seem to have learned a thing while he was there, and he seems hell-bound to destroy affordable quality education at state public colleges.

[jeff47]

1. I do.

It demonstrates that he can not complete a moderately challenging long-term project.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Since I'd not be even a tiny bit more supportive if he had 12 doctorate degrees

it is hard to say it has any honest impact.

I'd also grant undergrad degree equalivence just on completing a term as Governor especially with credit earned if it was a candidate I could get behind.

If that is going to be a major area of focus, it is a loss.

[jeff47]

4. Governors have a lot of help.

Completing a term as governor just means you did not incinerate the state. There's an army of people and a bureaucracy keeping the place running, no matter how incompetent you are.

College is something you have to get through without a staff to help you (at least for most people).

Yes, 12 PhD's wouldn't make him a good candidate either, but it would demonstrate he can achieve a long-term goal on his own.

[YarnAddict]

9. Are you saying

that it's easier govern a state than to complete college????? Really?? Governing a state requires a sharp administrative mind. Not everyone can do it.

Historically nearly every president we have had was a governor of a state. You can point to very few exceptions.

I am no Scott Walker supporter, far from it. But I do think we underestimate this guy at our own peril. He has won three electons, by impressive margins, regardless of the organizational measures that the unions were able to bring to bear against him.

Oh, and BTW, now that they offer remedial education in colleges, a four-year degree doesn't mean nearly what it used to. There are an awful lot of people who wouldn't be able to complete their bachelor's without tutors and remedial ed.

[jeff47]

10. Yes, it is much easier to govern a state.

Because as I said above, a governor has a very large staff and a very large bureaucracy helping him or her. If you'd like examples, both W and Reagan were governors. They are both incompetent morons who heavily relied on their staff to actually govern.

Not everyone can do it.

Nor can everyone complete college.

Oh, and BTW, now that they offer remedial education in colleges, a four-year degree doesn't mean nearly what it used to. There are an awful lot of people who wouldn't be able to complete their bachelor's without tutors and remedial ed.

And we had to walk uphill, both ways, to get to school.

[YarnAddict]

3. This whole issue is irrelevant

He quit school to take what he felt was a good job with the Red Cross. There are a lot of people who would do the same.

[jeff47]

5. And many of those people would still keep working towards a degree

instead of using a lack of a diploma as a badge of honor.

[YarnAddict]

8. Yup,

and sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't. Life has a way of interfering with things like that. I think a lot of ordinary people will be able to relate to what he did.

[libdem4life]

6. Just bringing it up can come off as elitist...but it does say "quitter" all over it.

Most jobs of any pay grade require/expect at least a BA diploma. Higher end jobs are requiring/preferring a MA and many if not most politicians were lawyers...a JD.

But cutting education ...that's just his Republican showing.

[starroute]

11. I would argue that Walker's quitting displays his own elitism

It takes a certain measure of entitlement to feel that you can drop out or all but fail in your education and that the world will still make a place for you and give you everything that those without the same advantages have to struggle to achieve.

The problem isn't that he didn't finish. It's that he didn't feel he had to finish.

[libdem4life]

12. That certainly could be the case. Interesting interpretation.

[hedgehog]

7. A very few people have quit college to go on to make a lot of money,

but most people in this situation were forced to quit only to end up with a stack of student loans.

[Orsino]

13. He's trying to finish everyone's college. n/t

[CK_John]

14. The GOP have been telling us for years they don't believe in public education, or

public health care or Social Security what's the big surprise????