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Scott Walker not as "fresh" as he claims to be
For months Walker has been promoting himself as the fresh newcomer that the GOP should back for 2016. The reality is that Walker is the stalest career politician of the bunch. John Nichols deflates Walker's story very nicely here:
Scott Walker isn’t fresh.
The governor is a political careerist who has sought office — as a winner and loser — more times that Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz combined.
In a permanent campaign that began a quarter century ago — when he quit college and launched a losing state legislative campaign against future U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore — Walker has run 24 primary and general election races. That doesn’t include a 2006 bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin, which he scrapped after national party officials elbowed him aside in favor of another candidate, or his all-but-announced 2016 presidential run.
Hyper-ambitious yet strikingly disciplined, Walker has used every office he has ever held as a platform from which to run for the next. Even when scandals have led to the arrests, indictments and convictions of campaign donors, campaign aides and official staffers, Walker has maintained a steady focus on climbing the political ladder that is perhaps most comparable to that of former President Bill Clinton...
... It’s worth noting that, even when he was running in 1993, Walker was not considered “fresh.” When it endorsed him that year, the conservative Milwaukee Sentinel referred to Walker not as a newcomer but as what he already was decades ago: “an active Republican insider.”
The governor is a political careerist who has sought office — as a winner and loser — more times that Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz combined.
In a permanent campaign that began a quarter century ago — when he quit college and launched a losing state legislative campaign against future U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore — Walker has run 24 primary and general election races. That doesn’t include a 2006 bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin, which he scrapped after national party officials elbowed him aside in favor of another candidate, or his all-but-announced 2016 presidential run.
Hyper-ambitious yet strikingly disciplined, Walker has used every office he has ever held as a platform from which to run for the next. Even when scandals have led to the arrests, indictments and convictions of campaign donors, campaign aides and official staffers, Walker has maintained a steady focus on climbing the political ladder that is perhaps most comparable to that of former President Bill Clinton...
... It’s worth noting that, even when he was running in 1993, Walker was not considered “fresh.” When it endorsed him that year, the conservative Milwaukee Sentinel referred to Walker not as a newcomer but as what he already was decades ago: “an active Republican insider.”
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I would think when things get stale and rotten, they usually throw them away. imo
I can smell the stink on his stale shit all the way over here in Montana.
It is too!
I think you've described the entire Republican Party. 
Not fresh. I only know the three races in four years. Absolutely not fresh. If you have had the Ed show after you, you are not fresh, smile. 