Scott Walker 2024?

[Technocracy Timmy]

Scott Walker Wisconsin three times in four years. Strong contender for 2024?

[TPIG]

Errr...he was still Mr. "Three times in four years" in 2016, except now he also has an electoral loss on his record and 4 years of being completely out of the political spotlight, so no...

[Independents for Nihilism]

Walker is to 2024 as Santorum was to 2016. Yesterday's man, and didn't really have a chance yesterday to begin with.

[Ferguson97]

Scott Walker would be an atrocious candidate who wouldn’t even win his home state.

[Torrain]

I remember Walker's 2024 run - best I can remember, the only notable media he got out of it was when he claimed that he had a bald spot not because he was naturally thinning, but because he had once hit his head on a kitchen cabinet.

It was a story so needlessly weird that it got picked up on this side of the Atlantic:

BBC News: Who, What, Why: Can a bang on the head cause a bald spot?
US Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says the hairless patch on his head comes from a scar he received from bumping his head while fixing a kitchen sink years ago. Can this be true?

Hard to see him doing any better than a Jim Gilmore-level performance in 2024.

[emailking]

He got out in 2016 to stop Trump so he'd just be helping Trump if he got in now.

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

Ron DeSantis is the Scott Walker of 2024

[Medal506]

Walker is to 2024 as Santorum was to 2016. Yesterday's man, and didn't really have a chance yesterday to begin with.

I feel like Marco Rubio is probably the Rick Santorum of 2024. He got millions of votes the first time and will get less than a thousand votes if he runs in 2024.

[Pres Mike]

Walker is to 2024 as Santorum was to 2016. Yesterday's man, and didn't really have a chance yesterday to begin with.

I feel like Marco Rubio is probably the Rick Santorum of 2024. He got millions of votes the first time and will get less than a thousand votes if he runs in 2024.

I don't think that is a fair comparison. The business wing of the Republican Party wanted Rubio in 2016. Like they did with Romney in 2012.

Santorum was the evangelical canidadte in 2012. That was Cruz in 2016.

But Trump showed that the business, evangelical and military wings of the GOP just aren't that important. The populist wing is the actual base. Not pastors, MBAs or ex generals.

[Suburbia]

Walker is to 2024 as Santorum was to 2016. Yesterday's man, and didn't really have a chance yesterday to begin with.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Scott Walker (whom I'm not a fan of) should have run for his old job in 2022.  He didn't, so he's pretty much history now.

Here's something to think about:  Larry Sabato, in handicapping the 2016 Presidential race, considered Scott Walker the odds-on favorite for the 2016 GOP nomination.  He cited Walker's "hero" status to the conservative movement, his ability to carry Usually Blue Wisconsin, with the kind of conservative issue stances that drove the pre-Trump GOP.  His campaign never got off the ground, however; he was the biggest flop of all in 2016 (arguably, a bigger flop than Jeb).  It would have been interesting to see what would have happened, however, if Walker had gotten the kind of support and money that Jeb received.

[Sir Mohamed]

LOL... Scott Walker is old news and appeals do nobody other than a few GOP corporate dolor cycles.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Who!?

[Technocracy Timmy]

LOL... Scott Walker is old news and appeals do nobody other than a few GOP corporate dolor cycles.

If that’s the case then how did he Wisconsin 3 times in 4 years?

[Schiff for Senate]

Errr...he was still Mr. "Three times in four years" in 2016, except now he also has an electoral loss on his record and 4 years of being completely out of the political spotlight, so no...

This, although in his defense I'd say 2018 was a blue wave and the fact that he barely lost to Evers is still kind of worth noting.

Still, even aside from the narrowness of his loss, you're right, he's done now. He's irrelevant.

[Schiff for Senate]

Scott Walker (whom I'm not a fan of) should have run for his old job in 2022.  He didn't, so he's pretty much history now.

Here's something to think about:  Larry Sabato, in handicapping the 2016 Presidential race, considered Scott Walker the odds-on favorite for the 2016 GOP nomination.  He cited Walker's "hero" status to the conservative movement, his ability to carry Usually Blue Wisconsin, with the kind of conservative issue stances that drove the pre-Trump GOP.  His campaign never got off the ground, however; he was the biggest flop of all in 2016 (arguably, a bigger flop than Jeb).  It would have been interesting to see what would have happened, however, if Walker had gotten the kind of support and money that Jeb received.

Do/did you support the controversial right-to-work law that Walker signed which prompted his 2012 recall? (I know that you tend to be a bit more liberal on labour/worker/"populist" issues.)

[Fuzzy Bear]

Scott Walker (whom I'm not a fan of) should have run for his old job in 2022.  He didn't, so he's pretty much history now.

Here's something to think about:  Larry Sabato, in handicapping the 2016 Presidential race, considered Scott Walker the odds-on favorite for the 2016 GOP nomination.  He cited Walker's "hero" status to the conservative movement, his ability to carry Usually Blue Wisconsin, with the kind of conservative issue stances that drove the pre-Trump GOP.  His campaign never got off the ground, however; he was the biggest flop of all in 2016 (arguably, a bigger flop than Jeb).  It would have been interesting to see what would have happened, however, if Walker had gotten the kind of support and money that Jeb received.

Do/did you support the controversial right-to-work law that Walker signed which prompted his 2012 recall? (I know that you tend to be a bit more liberal on labour/worker/"populist" issues.)

No.

I do not support right to work laws.  I will also note that the Midwest Governor's that supported such laws were Never Trump Republicans.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

LOL... Scott Walker is old news and appeals do nobody other than a few GOP corporate dolor cycles.

If that’s the case then how did he Wisconsin 3 times in 4 years?

No Timmy, you see, only #populist Republicans can win the rust belt /s

[Schiff for Senate]

Scott Walker (whom I'm not a fan of) should have run for his old job in 2022.  He didn't, so he's pretty much history now.

Here's something to think about:  Larry Sabato, in handicapping the 2016 Presidential race, considered Scott Walker the odds-on favorite for the 2016 GOP nomination.  He cited Walker's "hero" status to the conservative movement, his ability to carry Usually Blue Wisconsin, with the kind of conservative issue stances that drove the pre-Trump GOP.  His campaign never got off the ground, however; he was the biggest flop of all in 2016 (arguably, a bigger flop than Jeb).  It would have been interesting to see what would have happened, however, if Walker had gotten the kind of support and money that Jeb received.

Do/did you support the controversial right-to-work law that Walker signed which prompted his 2012 recall? (I know that you tend to be a bit more liberal on labour/worker/"populist" issues.)

No.

I do not support right to work laws.  I will also note that the Midwest Governor's that supported such laws were Never Trump Republicans.

Believe me, plenty of Trumpists avidly support right-to-work laws. Trump himself is far from pro-labor. I would post links proving as such, but there are far too many, so I’ll simply advice you to conduct a Google search for “Trump right to work laws” and see what that yields. You have every right to support Donald Trump and his party. You’re entitled to your own opinions and beliefs. However, you’re not entitled to your own set of facts, so just as you don’t get to lie about the election (state any debunked 2020 claim and I’m willing to waste my time proving it incorrect), you don’t get to pretend that Donald Trump or MAGA is in any way pro-labor or pro-worker.

[President Johnson]

Walker is to 2024 as Santorum was to 2016. Yesterday's man, and didn't really have a chance yesterday to begin with.

Not even that. Santorum was the runner-up in 2012. Santorum flopped in 2015 big time.

[NewYorkExpress]

Walker would make a great running mate for a DeSantis, but other than that, he's got no real chance at national relevance going forward.

[Alben Barkley]

[Fuzzy Bear]

Scott Walker (whom I'm not a fan of) should have run for his old job in 2022.  He didn't, so he's pretty much history now.

Here's something to think about:  Larry Sabato, in handicapping the 2016 Presidential race, considered Scott Walker the odds-on favorite for the 2016 GOP nomination.  He cited Walker's "hero" status to the conservative movement, his ability to carry Usually Blue Wisconsin, with the kind of conservative issue stances that drove the pre-Trump GOP.  His campaign never got off the ground, however; he was the biggest flop of all in 2016 (arguably, a bigger flop than Jeb).  It would have been interesting to see what would have happened, however, if Walker had gotten the kind of support and money that Jeb received.

Do/did you support the controversial right-to-work law that Walker signed which prompted his 2012 recall? (I know that you tend to be a bit more liberal on labour/worker/"populist" issues.)

No.

I do not support right to work laws.  I will also note that the Midwest Governor's that supported such laws were Never Trump Republicans.

Believe me, plenty of Trumpists avidly support right-to-work laws. Trump himself is far from pro-labor. I would post links proving as such, but there are far too many, so I’ll simply advice you to conduct a Google search for “Trump right to work laws” and see what that yields. You have every right to support Donald Trump and his party. You’re entitled to your own opinions and beliefs. However, you’re not entitled to your own set of facts, so just as you don’t get to lie about the election (state any debunked 2020 claim and I’m willing to waste my time proving it incorrect), you don’t get to pretend that Donald Trump or MAGA is in any way pro-labor or pro-worker.

The Midwest Governors that actually imposed Right to work laws were Bush supporter Mitch Daniels and Never trumpet Rick Snyder.  Those are facts.

Republicans have always stopped short of making Right to Work a part of their national platform because of their need for union voted in the Midwest and West.  Nixon, himself, explicitly said so.  Trump is not pro-union in the sense a Democratic pol might be, bu it's the Bush and Romney Republicans who have pushed the issue in recent years.

[°Leprechaun]

Ron DeSantis is the Scott Walker of 2024

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Yea, Scott Walker lost the Presidency too