Demise of Scott Walker and Why It’s Actually Significant

On September 13th, I wrote a post on Rick Perry’s withdrawal from the race. Just a week later, and five days after the second GOP debate, Scott Walker became the second republican presidential candidate to drop out of the race.

On a news conference in his home state of Wisconsin, Walker said:

“Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive, conservative message can rise to the top of the field. With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately.

I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same so that the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current front-runner,” said Walker, referencing businessman Donald Trump. “This is fundamentally important to the future of our party, and, more important, the future of the country.”

Walker was supposed to be the front-runner. If not at least high up there in the polls. Instead, he lagged far behind and even ranked 0% in a recent CCN/ORC national poll. This sharp decline can be in part attributed to the nonsensical rise of Donald Trump, soaking up all the poll numbers for reasons unknown to mankind. What does it tell you when two Republican governors are the first two to drop out of the presidential race?

What’s more, Walker had a super PAC for him at $20 million and yet money was a big part of the reason he withdrew from the race. Boy, with Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump’s surge in the polls without the aid of super PACs and special interests, something significant is coming to light about the true power of super PACs, which I wrote about earlier.

Honestly, I’m concerned. If the candidate that was expected to be high up in the polls has quit the race while Bobby Jindal is still in this thing, it’s a very scary thought that all these top-name candidates might be falling out soon, leaving candidates like Bobby Jindal or Rick Santorum as actual considerable alternatives to the (hopefully) inevitable downfall of Donald Trump.