The candidate who wants to deny the science behind male-sample baldness more than the science behind climate change isn’t in it to win itScott Walker’s presidential campaign is only a little over 50 days old,and it’s increasingly obvious that Scott Walker sucks. Not for his record or what he believes, although both of those are – to borrow a phrase from William Safire – extremely sucky. But Scott Walker is not satisfactory at this campaign thing.
A satisfactory campaign introduces a candidate and his best ideas to sympathetic and like-minded voters through a combination of events, and press coverage and paid outreach,allowing him or her to attract campaign donations and modern supporters alike. A bad campaign forces a candidate to acquire on the phone to reassure his existing donors that he exists and is going to abandon the “sinking into obscurity” tactic that hadnt been working. A truly terrible campaign is at hand when the most widely-reported news story is the candidate’s old claim that his bald spot totally isn’t genetic but comes from banging his head against the underside of a cabinet. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com