Governor Walker’s Ride On the GOP Roulette

While Rudy Giuliani will tell you that local success won’t give you national appeal, George “W” illustrates how deep pockets can buy you a Presidency. Somewhere in the middle of all this is the core of a much needed indictment of presidential politics; Issues vs. Money, Hype vs. Substance.

The shape of presidential politics is a wound of Party-Politics own making and of a Publics submission to it. The acceptance of a structure that allows for building a platform of glitter driven solely to a media-complex whose allegiance is to ratings and the data-push of polling data that cycles back to Campaign H.Q. for just-in-time platform re-configuration. The deeper your pockets the better your Political Apparatus (Campaign structure) and the better your chances are of polling plus-positive and as Hillary’s standing proves, you can survive the worst of it so long as you don’t run out of money!

Clearly, as Trump is proving and by contrast so is Jeb Bush by his anonymity, Americans (and not just registered Republicans) are looking for a candidate who can beat-back and remain apart from the statist political culture however, the candidates have yet to grasp that Americans are just as contemptuous of the media as they are the political culture.

To be sure, Scott Walker got out at the right time as I sense that it was becoming clear to him that he was not going to be able to break thru and if he did, the media and political culture, in his case the Unions, were lying in wait for him and he lacked the national appeal and the deep pockets to beat them back.

There is, as is always the case, a way to fix this mess and it is done by shortening the campaign spree to a three months immediately preceding an election; use CSPAN as the media outlet for public Q & A sessions and debates, put an indexed-cap on total campaign spending, limit donations strictly to U.S. individual donors who also have an indexed-cap and prohibit those currently holding elected positions, particularly at the federal level, from running for office.

Curtis C. Greco, Founder

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