WHY DID SCOTT
WALKER'S CAMPAIGN FLAME OUT SO SPECTACULARLY?
ONE OF HIS FORMER
AIDES WHO WORKED FOR HIM ON HIS CAMPAIGN HAS A FEW POSSIBLE
EXPLANATIONS THAT SHE EXPRESSED
ON TWITTER.
UNDERSTAND THAT SHE WAS HIRED BY HIM AND FIRED THE
NEXT DAY, SO SHE HAD A BIT OF A
BONE TO PICK WITH HIM.
"WALKER DID A NUMBER OF THINGS WRONG IN
THIS RACE.
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT WILL BE A
LENGTHY LIST.
THINGS HE GOT WRONG:
MISUNDERSTANDING THE GOP BASE, PANDERING, FLIP-FLOPPING.
ALLOWING A CERTAIN STAFF TO MARGINALIZE AND CUT OFF PEOPLE
IN WALKER'S ORBIT, WHO HAD GOTTEN HIM TO THE GOVERNORSHIP AND KEPT
HIM THERE.
BECOMING SO INVESTED IN WINNING, NO MATTER
WHAT IT TOOK, THAT HE LOST SIGHT OF HIS REAL IDENTITY AS A
LEADER.
HIRING PEOPLE WHO SPEND A LOT TO BUILD OUT A MASSIVE
OPERATION THAT WOULD NOT BE SUSTAINABLE.
NOT TRAINING
HIMSELF OUT OF TICS, INCLUDING INSTINCTIVELY ANSWERING ìYESî AND
ìABSOLUTELYî TO THINGS, COMPARING LOTS OF THINGS TO UNION FIGHT.
I SAID AT THE TIME TO PEOPLE WHO WROTE THAT WALKER WILL LOSE
BECAUSE HE FIRED ME THAT THAT WAS SILLY, BUT I ALSO FEEL THAT
THE REASONS BEHIND HIS FIRING ME WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF
HIS DEMISE.
NOW THAT APPEARS TO BE TRUE."
I THINK SHE MIGHT BE
OVERTHINKING IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT CERTAINLY SOME OF THAT MIGHT
BE TRUE.
CONSIDERING THE ORDERS FOR HIM TO LEAVE CAME FROM UP
HIGH, FROM BIG MONEY, THEY
PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IN THAT ORDER IF HE HAD NOT
DROPPED DOWN TO ZERO PERCENT IN THE POLLS, AND IF NOT FOR
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SHE IS LISTING RIGHT HERE.
>> I THINK SHE IS MOSTLY FULL OF SHIT.
IT IS NOT EVEN THE
BITTERNESS SO MUCH.
SHE WAS ON THE CAMPAIGN FOR A DAY, LET'S
NOT OVERSTATE HER IMPORTANCE.
POLITICAL REPORTERS FIND THIS AN
EASY STORY TO COVER.
IT'S ABOUT TECHNICAL ISSUES, CAMPAIGN
INFIGHTING.
DOESN'T INVOLVE ANY POLICY.
POLICY IS DANGEROUS, IF
YOU HAVE ACTUAL ANALYSIS OF
POLICY THEY SAY THAT YOU ARE BIASED.
BUT IF YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT INTERNAL FIGHTING, THAT'S GREAT.
IT'S NOT BIASED.
IT IS
EASY AND SAFE TO COVER, SO THAT IS WHY SHE IS GETTING A LOT OF
ATTENTION, EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS A STAFFER FOR ONE DAY.
SOME OF
WHAT SHE SAYS IS TRUE.
HE OVER TALKS ABOUT THE UNIONS, HE
PROBABLY GOT FANCY CONSULTANTS THAT WERE TOO EXPENSIVE, SURE.
OVERALL, SHE IS WRONG, BECAUSE SHE THINKS HE DID THIS WRONG OR
HE DID THAT WRONG, AND IF HE HADN'T FLIP-FLOPPED AND PANDERED
ñ NO, THAT'S HIS JOB.
THE DONORS PAY HIM TO PANDER TO
THEM.
AND HE PANDERS TO THE BASE, AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT HE IS
WILDLY HYPOCRITICAL.
HE IS A FLIP FLOPPER, HE ALWAYS HAS
BEEN.
HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY PRINCIPLES, SO YOUR ANALYSIS
THAT IF HE HAD JUST STUCK TO HIS PRINCIPLES HE WOULD HAVE WON IS
LAUGHABLE.
HIS ONLY PRINCIPLE IS, YES KOCH BROTHERS, YES SIR.
HOW CAN I HELP YOU SIR?
YOU WORKED FOR HIM WHEN YOU WERE EXCITED
ABOUT THAT OPPORTUNITY, YOU ARE NO BETTER.
IF HE HAD RUN THE
CAMPAIGN EXACTLY AS YOU WANTED HIM TO, HE STILL WOULD HAVE
GOTTEN SLAUGHTERED.
IN FACT HE WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN AS MUCH
DONOR MONEY, SO HE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN IN THE RACE IN THE
FIRST PLACE.
>> THERE IS A LOT THAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE FINANCE OF
CAMPAIGNS, BUT THE FACT THAT HE RAISED TENS OF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS AND THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT HOW HIS CAMPAIGN STRUCTURE
WAS UNSUSTAINABLE IN THE LONG RUN, IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS.
THAT DIDN'T SUSTAIN THEM?
MAYBE HE NEEDS TO SPEND MORE
EFFICIENTLY.
I THINK THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF BITTERNESS AND
MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE CAUSES OF HIS DOWNFALL, BUT IT
IS INTERESTING TO SEE SOMEBODY WHO I BELIEVE WAS INTERESTED IN HIM
WINNING ñ THIS IS NOT A TRUMP SUPPORTER ñ IT IS INTERESTING
THAT SOMEBODY WHO WAS SO INHERENTLY INVESTED HIM IN
WINNING COULD GET IT WRONG IN THAT WAY.
>> SHE HAS GOT A WAY OVERINFLATED SENSE OF SCOTT WALKER ñ
>> AND HER OWN IMPORTANCE.
>> HE SHOWED EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF LEADER HE IS, HE LEADS FROM
BEHIND, FROM THE KOCH BROTHER'S BEHIND.
SHE ALSO HAS AN
OVERINFLATED SENSE OF HER OWN
IMPORTANCE.
SHE SAYS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID THAT
WHEN HE FIRED HER THAT HE WOULD LOSE BECAUSE OF IT.
WHO SAID
THAT?
I DON'T REMEMBER YOU BEING
FIRED, LET ALONE SEEING, DID YOU SEE THAT SCOTT WALKER FIRED THAT
VERY IMPORTANT STAFFER?
HEíLL LOSE BECAUSE OF THAT.
NOBODY SAID
THAT, COME ON.
>> WE HAVE COVERED THE TWO DEBATES, AND OVER THE VARIOUS
CANDIDATES WHO ALMOST CERTAINLY
WERE NOT GOING TO WIN, I KIND OF LIKED ñ I GET WHAT YOU ARE
SAYING ABOUT HIM NOT HAVING ANY PRINCIPLES, I THINK THAT IS
TRUE, BUT I AT LEAST THINK HE HAD A STANCE.
HE HATES UNIONS.
THAT IS SOMETHING AT LEAST A CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST COULD GET
BEHIND, AND IT IS MORE THAN SOME
OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES HAVE.
IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHAT IT
IS THAT DRIVES A PERSON TO GET INVOLVED.
ON THE LEFT YOU HAVE
BERNIE SANDERS, WHO SEEMS TO GENUINELY CARE ABOUT THESE
ISSUES AND HAS FOR DECADES.
YOU HAVE LARRY LESSIG, WHO IS RUNNING
ON ONE ISSUE.
YOU HAVE HILLARY CLINTON WHO IS ADDICTED TO
POWER, BASICALLY.
AND ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU HAVE A
COMBINATION OF PEOPLE WHO SEE IT AS A REALITY SHOW, AND THEN
SCOTT WALKER.
WHAT IS HE GETTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR?
BUST UP A FEW FEDERAL UNIONS?
IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
IS ACTUALLY DRIVING HIM.
CARLY FIORINA APPARENTLY WANTS TO
START WARS WITH VARIOUS PLACES, I GET WHY SHE IS RUNNING,
BUT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHERE I JUST DON'T GET WHY YOU
WOULD RALLY BEHIND THEM.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY CAN COME UP WITH AN EXPLANATION FOR
WHY JEB BUSH WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT, OTHER THAN IT IS
EXPECTED OF HIM AS A BUSH.
THAT DOESN'T RALLY PEOPLE TO YOUR CAUSE.
GENERATING FEELINGS OF INDIGNATION, FEAR AND
SUSPICION AROUND THE WORLD, LIKE DONALD TRUMP IS DOING, THAT
CAN CAUSE PEOPLE TO BACK YOU.
>> YOU ARE OVERTHINKING IT, THEY ARE ALL RUNNING FOR EGO.
>> I DON'T THINK THAT RAND PAUL JUST SO LOVES POWER.
HE LOVES POWER, BUT HE HAS AN IDEOLOGY THAT HE SEEMS TO
GENUINELY BELIEVE.
>> I WAS GOING TO SAY, THERE ARE THREE PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN MAKE A
CASE FOR.
THERE IS THE TWO YOU HAVE BEEN MENTIONING, BERNIE
SANDERS AND LARRY LESSIG.
THEY HAVE BEEN FOR THOSE POSITIONS ALL
ALONG, IT'S NOT LIKE BERNIE SANDERS IS DOING THIS FOR AN EGO
TRIP.
HE WAS DOING THE SAME THING WHEN HE WAS THE LEAST
POWERFUL PERSON IN THE SENATE.
LARRY LESSIG IS CLEARLY NOT
DOING IT ON AN EGO TRIP.
IT'S NOT LIKE HE THINKS THEREíS A GREAT
CHANCE HE WILL WIN.
HE IS DOING IT BECAUSE HE DEEPLY CARES ABOUT
THAT ISSUE.
RAND PAUL, HE COULD BE DOING IT FOR THE EGO, BUT HE
AT LEAST HAS A SOLID, REAL POSITION THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM
OTHER PEOPLE'S POSITIONS.
THAT IS FAIR ENOUGH TO SAY, AT LEAST
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING WITH RAND PAUL, AND THAT IS A
CLEAR IDEOLOGY.
>> AND TED CRUZ WANTS TO SET UP AN AMERICAN THEOCRACY.
THAT'S SOMETHING I CAN UNDERSTAND.