Zombie!

Scott Walker is out of the 2016 Presidential race, his campaign imploded by a mistaken thought process; Americans can be sold a crap sandwich and be made to believe it's a sirloin steak.  The wealthiest Americans, who've tried to rig the election, guiding their selected stooges to the mantle of leader of the free world, and who 100% backed Walker only two months ago, are staring in disbelief at the burning embers of their system, done in by what they thought was their biggest asset, the red meat far right.

Donald Trump, a blow hard billionaire, was their undoing, and even he doesn't have a lock on the GOP nomination.  He's given the 'established' process fits (as has Ben Carson) by taking away their loyal followers.  They relate to the racist and xenophobic elements the Republican party has recruited over the last 15 years better than the established candidates, mainly because they rarely have to walk back their deranged comments.  To see how quickly this has devolved into a mess for the GOP, think about John McCain having to publicly shame a woman at a rally in 2008 for insisting Obama was a Muslim.  Today, you'd lose points if you didn't fully agree with a psychopath insisting Obama is Hitler's love child.

Another problem the GOP is having is one we've seen played out the entire history of the country; a political party, living in the shadow of a beloved President, manufactures years of candidates who insist they represent the spirit of said beloved candidate.  George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and FDR all had their respective parties candidates insist they were the second coming of their idols, for numerous election cycles afterwards, usually with comical results.  We're nearly 30 years since the end of Reagan's term, but the GOP still tries to inhabit his shadow.  One slight problem with shadows, the later in the day it gets, the longer the shadow becomes.

Modern Republicans don't have a clue who Reagan was.  I'm not saying Reagan was good (oh hell no!) but they took an opportunistic sound bite actor, turned California politician, who rewarded his backers with disgusting handouts, trickle down economics, a war on workers rights and massive budget deficits, but who worked with, and befriended, Tip O'Neill, possibly the most liberal Speaker of the House ever, and turned Ronnie into a Action Movie superhero/Gordon Gekko/Rambo/anti-women/Sgt. York/homophobic/Die Hard/hippy shooting/whites first/über-Jesus Christ deity.  No one could fulfill that legacy, but it doesn't stop them from trying, once again, with comical results.

Scott Walker destroyed workers rights in Wisconsin, in a hope he would draw comparisons to Reagan's take down of the air traffic controllers.  It's pathetic.  He purposely hurt the citizens of Wisconsin, just to inflate his national name recognition.  Does anyone think Scott Walker embodies anything at all about Reagan, outside of a die job and a suit?  Funny thing, Scott Walker's unmissable bald spot is the perfect analogy.  Sure, if you squint and you're far away, he looks a little like Reagan but then he bends over to tie his shoe, and you realize you've got the wrong guy, even from a distance.

The GOP money machine wants Trump gone, so they are throwing money at other candidates, and ordering the media they own to pounce on him, sensing weakness after the 2nd GOP debate.  Will it work?  I don't know.  As the field wanes, they'll throw a few dollars around, but my guess is they're changing strategy.  They're likely going to shift their spending in the next three election cycles, 16, 18, and 2020, to state legislatures.  They need to maintain GOP majorities in them so, after the 2020 census, they can continue to gerrymander the US House into a near impenetrable fortress of conservative dominance.

Scott Walker was never there.  He was a ghost, a myth.  He was a hollow suit, the flavor of the month, yesterday's special.  He was a zombie.  Maybe that's why they reference them on a certain television show as Walkers.