#ROFL Scott #Walker16's campaign manager unloads

[riversedge]

Scooter was all alone--so alone up on his stage. tsk tsk


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#ROFL Scott #Walker16's campaign manager unloads http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/scott-walker-2016-fall-213956 … #wiunion #wiright #UniteBlue #tcot




Walker's campaign manager unloads

'It's a f---ing bitch, man,' Rick Wiley tells POLITICO of the Wisconsin governor's stunning collapse.

By Mike Allen and Alex Isenstadt

09/23/15, 05:32 AM EDT


By Ted Widmer

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker pulled the plug on a bloated campaign that was headed into debt and was being undermined by furious donors, a warring staff and — at the root of it all — a candidate who was badly out of his league.

Prior to the governor's abrupt exit from the Republican race, his campaign had a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency plan at the ready: Campaign manager Rick Wiley, in a half-hour phone interview with POLITICO on Tuesday night, said he had an “all-in Iowa” plan that would have moved the headquarters from Madison, Wis., to Des Moines and cut the staff from about 85 to 20 as of Thursday. But Walker, floundering in debates and on the stump, was facing such a sudden drought in donations that even those drastic moves wouldn’t have guaranteed solvency.

“We built the machine that we needed to get a governor in just phenomenal shape to take a stage in a presidential debate,” Wiley said. “I think sometimes it's lost on people the largeness of the job. I think people just look at it and say, ‘Wow! Yeah, you know, it's like he's a governor and he was in a recall’ and blah, blah, blah — he’s ready.

“It's just not like that. It is really, really difficult. ... I'm just saying, you know, like it's a f---ing bitch, man. It really is.”

The staff left the office for the last time Tuesday — the campaign was officially over, and only lawyers and H.R. people were left as Wiley and the rest headed for The Boathouse, a Madison bar that was the campaign hideout, to enjoy the sunset together one last time.

Walker has a conference call with top donors scheduled for midday Wednesday to discuss what happened. In past such calls, the donors have been able to ask questions. And POLITICO interviews with many of them — in addition to interviews with over a half-dozen Republicans close to the campaign — show that they have lots of them: why the staff was so big, why he wasn’t better prepped for the debates, why he went from front-runner to also-ran in a matter of weeks.

A Republican close to Walker said: “The entire campaign was built a bit larger than it should have been early on. Then after the debates and the resources slowed, modifications were not made. ... Expectations were high, and there was momentum. And the thought was that you needed staff to keep that going, and get more resources coming in.”...........

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/scott-walker-2016-fall-213956#ixzz3mZ2IlTg2

[tblue]

1. Thank God he won't be POTUS

He should have lost the recall vote. Anyway, I hope Jeb! is next.

[justhanginon]

2. He left out the part that the rest of the country

realized rather quickly that Walker was never anything more than a state based POS. Perfect republican trifecta politician. Ugly, stupid and corrupt. I will never understand how some of these incompetent worthless twits ever get elected to anything. I still have hopes that the people of the beautiful state of Wisconsin wake up and get rid of this worthless SOB.

[beemer27]

3. Very Mixed Emotions

I do feel sorry for the people of the fine State of Wisconsin now that this loser is returning there and will probably muck up the state more than he has already. However, that sorrow isn't as great as the happiness that I feel now that he doesn't have a chance to do what he did in Wisconsin to the whole nation.

[alterfurz]

4. paraphrasing what someone wrote of Sarah Palin after the 2008 election:

"The country dodged a bullet this time, now let's hope the local Badgers are as lucky. Unfortunately it's probably gonna take multiple clips of silver bullets & several cords of wooden stakes to put him down, and even then I'd want to make sure he was buried in a triple-lined lead coffin at a Delavan crossroads guarded by an archangel with a flaming sword. If Delavan has a crossroads."

[GusBob]

5. I love reading these campaign obits. Seems as if there are myriad reasons for the collapse

I think maybe I have read a dozen of them now. This is the first one to mention his wife.

One thing they never mention though, and this is shallow I know, but the guy in photos comes across as looking like a beady eyed lil rat face. In every picture he looks like Goofy.

[Still In Wisconsin]

6. Notice how nothing is ever, ever, ever Walker's fault?

It was his campaign manager. It was Trump. It was the media. It was the debate moderator. It was the Wisconsin legislature not passing his budget quickly.

It's never the simple fact that Scott Walker is a small person and just basically a dope.