Scott Walker’s New Book: ‘Romney Did A Lousy Job’

Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), who harbors a burning desire to live in the White House, has a book out soon. Because a few sitting governors write books, but every governor who’s planning a Presidential run writes a book.

And this one is… special, on first blush.

It capers with the breezy title, Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and The Nation’s Challenge, which telegraphs nothing whatsoever about Scott Walker’s near-term intentions. And it’s full of reasons why Scott Walker transcends the riffraff of today’s staid GOP, and gets things done, and by the way isn’t it sad that Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) suffers from chronic approval problems, and Haley Barbour is too insidery to be trusted, and did I mention that Scott Walker survived a recall effort in the state that gave us William Proxmire and Eugene McCarthy (and Liberace). And your humble scribe, for that matter. But I digress.

As for Mitt Romney (R-Cayman Islands), Scott Walker doesn’t see the kind of vision or communicative genius that Scott Walker has:

Romney did a “lousy job of presenting a positive vision of free market solutions to our nation’s problems in a way that is relevant to people’s lives.”

And while Walker pays obligatory homage to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), he makes abundantly clear that Ryan is the old guard (for such a young man), and Walker is the font of fresh ideas, burning poetical talent, strategic ur-force, and no particular ambition, now that you ask.

Wisconsin Democrats, of course, know better:

“I’ve never met anyone who wants to be president more,” said U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Madison who served in the state Assembly during the union fight. “We knew the book was coming. We know he’s traveling all over the country. It would be nice if he put even a portion of that energy into creating jobs in Wisconsin.”

Meanwhile, the Packers are 3-2, and host the Browns on Sunday at Lambeau. Scott Walker will be otherwise occupied, watching large men play rough on TV, watching smaller men praise Paul Ryan on Sunday gab shows, and promoting his modern-day Hamlet virally via the Interwebs, because he is unintimidated.

By: rhb

Rob is a NYC-based Internet entrepreneur. He's also a businessman and job creator (wait: doesn't demand create jobs?) who understands the sense, and the eventual predominance, of the progressive agenda.