The rapid fall of Scott Walker was something to behold. Of course, you would not expect an arrogant person like him to accept the fact that his demise was due to a combination of being an incompetent debater, a lousy campaigner, and having a smarmy and odious personality. No, of course not.
The reasons he himself gives are far more grand. He said that while in church on Sunday, he realized that he has been “called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race” and “I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same so the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current frontrunner.” He also thanked God again.
In other words, rather than being a loser, he was actually a winner because his god was calling Walker to withdraw and be like Moses and lead most of the other candidates in withdrawing from the race and thus his leaving was part of a grand plan in which he was playing a noble, even epic, role.
The catch with this is that Walker was also convinced that it was his god who wanted him to enter the race in the first place. He was emphatic about it, saying in a fundraising letter to his supporters that “I needed to be certain that running was God’s calling — not just man’s calling. I am certain: This is God’s plan for me and I am humbled to be a candidate for President of the United States.”
So now we have a puzzle: What the hell is Walker’s god up to? As I see it there are three possibilities:
1. There is no god and Walker is simply attributing to god what he is deciding is best for himself.
2. God is a bit of a ditherer and did actually change his/her/its mind about Walker’s candidacy, which puts a dent in his/her/its reputation for omniscience.
3. God actually hates Walker and is having fun with him by jerking him around.
Option #1 is the most likely of course but I enjoy option #3 the most.
As for his appeal to his fellow Republicans to join in his new and improved god’s plan to follow him in dropping out, this assumes that the other candidates are not power hungry egomaniacs like him who will be only too glad to see him go. In reality, they will all agree with his call for more candidates to drop out only as long as they are the designated flag bearer sent out to slay the Trumpdragon.
You forgot the universal answer:
4. God works in mysterious ways.
Fiorina weighs in on religion and leadership
How broad-minded of her. But wait:
So it doesn’t matter what kind of religion, so long as it’s not atheist.
I did some digging this evening on Walker and he’s managed to survive two scandals so far:
1) While at Marquette, he fathered an out-of-wedlock child, and he refused (and still refuses) to give financial support to the child or his mother.
2) His involvement in illegal fundraising back 2011 and 2012.
If those weren’t enough to get rid of him, it must be something big.
Sigh. Walker and everyone so far has missed the all purpose real explanation.
It’s all the fault of satan and the demons!!!
It’s always the demons. Except when god is in charge and everything happens for a reason. Xianity is incoherent. It’s also a good way to completely not take responsibility for their actions. Xians are just meat robots controlled by the cosmic forces of god and the angels. Hmmm, or was it satan the demons.
Look at it on the bright side. Walker can now go back to destroying Wisconsin. Wisconsin ranks number 1 in the shrinking middle class and decidely second rate in recovering from the recession.
Wisconsin ended up with huge budget deficits as the magic of supply side economics failed once again. So Walker just cut services including education.
Well He can durn well wait in line with the rest of us then!
Good riddance Walker. Surprised to see you beat Jindal outta there but oh well ce la vie. Ya won’t be missed. (Nor will Perry or Santorum or Abbott.)
“[P]ositive, conservative…”
Sure, Scott Walker, contradict yourself in just two words.
Well, God needed him to get in the race before He could make him drop out.
Ben Carson explains why he was taken out of context
That sounds reasonable. And very unlike previous Carson statements.
Ben Carson’s theocratic lie: The pernicious myth of America the “Christian nation”
Walker’s fundraising dried up, so “God wanted me to drop out” probably counts as unintentional honesty.
Perhaps God only wanted him to be a candidate but not to win the election. To serve as a shield and draw early fire to provide cover for some more electable person. I can totally understand him not putting that in the fund-raising pitch.
Just another example of how God is an iron.
No, no, no! Look, it’s obvious:
Forasmuch as the LORD had need of a faithful servant who would lead the Clearing of the Field at the appointed time, to serve Him in this wise he choose Scott Walker,
far-rightrighteous governor of the province of Wisconsin, on the shores of the lake which is called Michigan. Therefore said He unto Scott Walker: “My servant Scott, enter ye the contest, yea even that for the Republican Presidential nomination.” Now this was both wise and cunning, although the LORD knew well that Scott Walker had not the faintest chance of winning, nay not that of a snowball which is in hell: for how could Scott Walker lead the Clearing of the Field, without he first entered the same?@ ^ Nick Gotts : Except Walker didn’t even lead that clearing of the field (yet to really get underway although hopefully soon!) because Rick Perry beat him to the “honour” of dropping out first! 555