.@ScottWalker : "Everybody wants to talk about hypotheticals; there is no such thing as a hypothetical." http://t.co/RczAK6kYxb
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) September 9, 2015
Exact quote, per the ABC link:
“I’m not president today and I can’t be president today,” the Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin governor said when asked by ABC News during a press gaggle on Monday what he would to address the current refugee crisis if he were president currently. “Everybody wants to talk about hypotheticals; there is no such thing as a hypothetical.”
Bloomberg Politics, over the weekend, “The anti-union label that brought the Wisconsin governor headlines and donors hasn’t been doing the trick on the campaign trail“:
… Walker’s plans for Sunday and Monday call for riding a rented Harley-Davidson through all 10 New Hampshire counties. It will be his seventh trip to the state this year and fourth since launching his campaign July 13. On a weekend that will see top Democratic politicians embracing unions, Walker is expected to highlight his experience in taking them on, including the threats he received and the 100,000 protesters he faced at the peak of his battle…
So far, however, it’s not helping Walker in the polls. In the most recent Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, Walker was backed by just 8 percent of likely caucus-goers, less than half what he recorded in the last Iowa Poll in late May. A poll released Thursday by Monmouth University showed Walker had slipped to 3 percent nationally…
When are the Kochs gonna admit that their state-level knob-polisher just isn’t ready for the big-time national competition?
For entertainment purposes, Jeb Lund at the Guardian:
… A good campaign introduces a candidate and his best ideas to sympathetic and like-minded voters through a combination of events, press coverage and paid outreach, allowing him or her to attract campaign donations and new supporters alike. A bad campaign forces a candidate to get on the phone to reassure his existing donors that he exists and is going to abandon the “sinking into obscurity” tactic that hadn’t been working. A truly terrible campaign is at hand when the most widely-reported news story is the candidate’s old claim that his bald spot totally isn’t genetic but comes from banging his head against the underside of a cabinet…
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