Scott Walker's exit puts a focus on a fickle GOP electorate - Washington Post

Let’s stipulate that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s surprise early exit from the presidential campaign was caused in no small part by a candidate who did himself in. But what can be said about the nature of a fickle Republican electorate that has turned its back on politicians like Walker in favor of non-politicians with no records of success in government?

Whatever can be said about Walker’s skills as a presidential candidate — and they were obviously lacking in a number of ways — there is no questioning that as governor he stood for the very values and principles that conservative voters claim they champion and put them into practice. Memories, apparently, are short among the Republican base.

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