The Career Candidate?

Over at the ScottForGov.com blog, contributor “Tom Servo” wrote an entry titled, “The Career Candidate,” and imagine my surprise when I read the entry and realized “Tom” was actually referring to Mark Neumann, not Scott Walker. After all, if there’s a “career candidate” in the Republican gubernatorial primary, it’s definitely Scott Walker, who has spent 17 of his 42 years on this planet as an elected official.

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6 thoughts on “The Career Candidate?

  1. I don’t pretend to be an expert on the GOP but my totally uneducated guess is that Mark Neumann will beat Scott Walker in the primary. I would love to see the ideologue cry like his fellow smug conservatives John Gard (2x) and Paul Bucher.

    1. While Walker’s more fervent supporters seem to think Mark Neumann’s candidacy is doomed, I wouldn’t count Neumann out. He’s got a lot of money to spend, and the more Walker gets hammered for his mismanagement of Milwaukee County, the less attractive he could end up looking to all those voters who aren’t from Milwaukee County.

  2. 26 year career politician: Tom Barrett.

    Another draw. If you’re going to criticize Walker for all that’s wrong with Milwaukee and being a career politician, perhaps the Democrats ought to recruit a different reluctant candidate.

    1. forgot, my point in posting this was to note that if Walker supporters like the folks at ScottForGov.com are going to attack Mark Neumann (or Tom Barrett for that matter) as a “career candidate,” they ought to remember their preferred candidate is far from being a political outsider himself.

      1. Neumann is the furthest thing from a career politician in this race – and probably the furthest thing from a career politician running for Governor in as long as I’ve been alive. I mean – hasn’t he actually only held one office and for only a couple of terms? Sure he ran for a few other races, but it’s not like most of those were that consuming. His run for the Senate was while he was serving in the House – and his first runs for the House were a little unique in that there were three elections for the same office in three years due to a special election.

        He’s spent a hell of a lot more time living his life & doing things besides politics than the other two. I’m not saying that makes him a better or worse candidate, only that calling him the career politician in this race is idiotic.

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