As Scott Walker mulls White House bid, questions linger over college exit

[Carling]

After reading this, I now know more about Walker's college years than I do of the man who has been President the past 6 years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-scott-walker-mulls-white-house-bid-questions-linger-over-college-exit/2015/02/11/8e17ea44-b13e-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html

MILWAUKEE — Scott Walker was gone. Dropped out. And in the spring of his senior year.

In 1990, that news stunned his friends at Marquette University. Walker, the campus’s suit-wearing, Reagan-loving politico — who enjoyed the place so much that he had run for student body president — had left without graduating.

To most of the Class of 1990 — and, later, to Wisconsin’s political establishment — Walker’s decision to quit college has been a lingering mystery.

Not even his friends at Marquette were entirely sure why he never finished. Some had heard that a parent had fallen ill, or maybe there was some financial strain. Others thought he had simply had enough of school.

Walker clearly liked college politics more than college itself. He had managed to line up 47 campaign endorsements, including ones from the ski team and the varsity chorus, but he had trouble showing up on time for French.

And, after four years, he had faltered on both fronts. He’d lost an ugly race for president. And he apparently had far too few credits to graduate.

Kevin Miller, who knew Walker from the Marquette Students for Life, described Walker’s thinking at the time as: “ ‘I’d rather have a full-time job and have the rest of my time to spend on politics.’ ” He said Walker intended to go back to school at some point. “I never got any indication that it was anything other than that. Or anything more than that.”

Walker’s own explanation has been short and simple. He got a job. He meant to go back. But he just never found the time.

Today, Walker, 47, is the governor of Wisconsin and a strong contender for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination. He is known for an astounding political hot streak: Since 1993, he has run 11 races for state legislature, county executive and governor — including a highly unusual recall election in 2012 — and he has won them all.

But before that streak came a string of defeats — the campus election, his failure to finish college and his first campaign for state office.

When Walker has told the story of his political career, he has tended to begin with his first big win in 1993, casting himself as a reluctant entrant into the world of politics.

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[Fishrrman]

Well.

I'll reckon that at least Scott Walker is actually remembered by some other students who went to school with him.

Unlike those forgetful young folks at Columbia....  ;)

[libertybele]

Problem easily resolved; Cruz/Walker 2016!  They compliment each other very well.  Cruz has the education and Walker has experience as governor.  Both of them are relentless in their endeavors.  Both of them have reputations as the "underdogs" and both of them are very good at debating.  It is a win/win team that the Dems are not going to be able to beat.   

[Fishrrman]

libertybele writes above:
[[ Problem easily resolved; Cruz/Walker 2016!  They compliment each other very well.  Cruz has the education and Walker has experience as governor. ]]

You've got the names reversed -- it should be Walker/Cruz.

I admire Senator Cruz, but as of yet, he's "mostly talk", and no "substance".

Mr. Walker, on the other hand, is 100% the opposite -- up to this point he's been substance and action, without talking "a good line" (which most folks believe he doesn't have inside him).

That's ok with me. Wasn't it either Nixon or one of the "Two Teutons" who once said, "don't listen to what we say, watch what we DO" ??

I prefer men of action to the guys with big mouths.

Walker is EXACTLY that kind of guy.
No one else in the running right now comes close...

[Puss-N-Boots]

I must have missed that part in my civics class... I didn't know a college degree was a prerequisite for President.   Besides, some of the dumbest people out there (**cough OBAMA cough**) have college degrees.  Doesn't mean they can lead.

[mystery-ak]

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