http://ulstermanbooks.com/mainstream-media-worries-scott-walker-vs-hillary-scenario/Apparently the Mainstream Media is more than happy to accommodate a Hillary vs Jeb battle, pitting two old guard political dynasties against one another. It would make for good television, but more importantly – Hillary would likely win that war.
Not so with Scott Walker though. The outwardly calm Wisconsin governor has proven himself multiple times of taking on some of the most aggressive hard left opponents and emerging victorious.
(Governor Scott Walker, waiting in the wings, stage right…)
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The Scott Walker story is much bigger than Scott Walker himself. The Wisconsin governor is not terribly charismatic, but rather decidedly common sense. He has an Average Joe quality that appeals to a growing number of voters, both Republican and Democrat, who are weary of years of the Barack Obama sideshow spectacle.
America doesn’t want Greek columns – America wants leadership. Somebody who can just “get it done’, and not prance about whining about politics, the media, or constantly blaming their political opposition for how things are.
With Jeb Bush the media will be able to play the rich guy/out of touch/brother of George W card over and over again. They know it. They want it. It will make their job of elevating the equally rich/out of touch/wife of Bill Clinton Hillary so much easier. Just as 2008 became all about “vote for the black guy”, which pulled millions of white guilt voters to the polls, the media will attempt just as hard to make 2016 the “vote for the woman” scenario, and hope it too will pull millions of voters into supporting a Hillary Clinton campaign.
A candidate like Jeb Bush makes that scenario far more possible than a candidate like Scott Walker. Walker isn’t establishment, he has taken on the political establishment and come away stronger for it. He isn’t brilliant, he’s just plain old competent. By 2016 America will have endured eight years of a “brilliant” politician in the form of Barack Obama. Brilliant but utterly incompetent. The Middle Class in particular has been shredded under the yoke of the Obama years. Hillary will come out swinging on the “income inequality” meme, she’ll talk of “working moms” and how the system is stacked against the “little guy” just as Obama did four and eight years earlier.
The difference is, and it is a significant difference, is that for all her desire for power, Hillary Clinton is not nearly as capable a liar as Barack Obama. America knows she’s very rich, a wealth made off of the aspirations of her far more politically capable husband. Her own resume is paper thin. Beyond titles, she has few actual accomplishments, though a considerable stack of failures. The Benghazi Massacre looms, as does the entire current mess of the Middle East for which her role in the Obama administration played a considerable part.
Scott Walker may or may not end up an actual GOP frontrunner for president. It’s still very early, but the media’s noticeable flinch during his most recent rise in the polls indicates how concerned they are to have opposition to Hillary Clinton they cannot control so easily as they think themselves capable of doing with Jeb Bush.
In 2008 the media “McCained the campaign”, suddenly elevating the once hapless and broke McCain campaign to a primary victory by the spring of that year. McCain proved as hapless and broke against Barack Obama as the he had months earlier, assuring a very easy victory for Obama by November.
There won’t likely be a “Bush the vote” media manipulation in 2016 though so much as an attempt to secure both Jeb Bush the GOP nomination not so much because Hillary Clinton can easily defeat Bush, but that even if Jeb Bush manages to win the presidency, the media knows that politically there is little difference between the two.
Not so with Scott Walker or some of the other would-be GOP candidates for president. They represent a real difference, in some cases as stark difference between the policies of Hillary Clinton and her far left, Big Government kind.
Where Jeb Bush gives voters the appearance of choice, a candidate like Scott Walker gives voters an actual choice.
That is the scenario that frightens the Mainstream Media the most.
Posted byulsterman
February 11, 2015
