How Do You Like Me Now?

Now that I'm on my way?
Do you still think I'm crazy
Standin here today?
~Toby Keith

Richard Cohen asks an honest question about Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, and again, comes up empty.

To me, Scott Walker is the candidate for white wealth, fearful and protected from competition. He wants to assure the white Wisconsinites that (booga, booga!) no immigrants nor colored people will change their way of life here...

The sons can still inherit the fathers' businesses -- protected from honest regulation or honest competition;
the fathers can still shield their assets, sucking up the government programs but refusing to avoid the loopholds that let them shield their dollars from necessary taxes;
and if you're white, it's a birthright for success, whether or not the subsequent generations can compete today, on the ground.

You see a lot of that white fear up here -- from professors, from non-workers, from the old and the young, who have not been out of state much, nevermind untethered in the world.

I don't fear Scott Walker -- I lived through GWB as president, and we couldn't do much worse than that...

But, God knows, I do fear the ignorance in the American electorate up here. Hopefully, the rest of the nation will understand the need to step up and protect this fearful white-wealth demographic from itself...

Ignorance knows no borders, afterall.

The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he’s seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about — a way of masking his apparent bigotry. I have another question for him. Never mind when he decided to become a heterosexual, when did he decide to be such a dolt?