# Scott Walker is in **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 13, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052 "2015-07-13T13:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/121 "2015-09-21T20:19:08Z")
[Scott Walker is out.](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/21/scott-walker-said-to-be-quitting-presidential-race/) ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/122 "2015-09-21T20:22:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Scott Walker is out.](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/21/scott-walker-said-to-be-quitting-presidential-race/) What a LOSER! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/123 "2015-09-21T21:01:57Z")
[AP News is saying the same: Walker To Drop Out Of Gop Presidential Race](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_WALKER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-21-16-43-13). Buh-bye. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/124 "2015-09-21T21:04:13Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [AP News is saying the same: Walker To Drop Out Of Gop Presidential Race](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_WALKER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-21-16-43-13). Maybe this will give him the time to finish his college degree. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/125 "2015-09-21T21:13:19Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Scott Walker is out.](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/21/scott-walker-said-to-be-quitting-presidential-race/) All that money the Kookie Monster brothers spent on him. All down the drain, wasted. All wasted. What a shame. What a shame. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/126 "2015-09-21T21:17:58Z")
Some good news for a change. Hooray. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/127 "2015-09-21T21:27:11Z")
And the thread winner is . . . > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > . . . He’s had a huge advanage in WI where he can get all the shit he wants passed without going out on a limb in public and really pushing for any of it. He doesn’t need to. > > But IMO this won’t work with 2016’s stable of Republican candidates. He HAS to make a lot of noise or he will be completely overlooked and be out of the running before he even realizes it. **Boyo Jim** , who called it back on August 11. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/128 "2015-09-21T21:28:26Z")
Kind of bizarre to bail at the first drop in the polls. Plenty of candidates have suffered worse and gone on to win the nomination. And given how many sketchy candidates are running this cycle, it seems even more likely Walker still had a non-trivial chance of winning. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/129 "2015-09-21T21:31:05Z")
Bets on who’s next? Cruz? Carson? Christie? Jon Huntsman? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/130 "2015-09-21T21:32:14Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Kind of bizarre to bail at the first drop in the polls. Plenty of candidates have suffered worse and gone on to win the nomination. And given how many sketchy candidates are running this cycle, it seems even more likely Walker still had a non-trivial chance of winning. Could he be pulling a Ross Perot on us all? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/131 "2015-09-21T21:38:36Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Bets on who’s next? Cruz? Carson? Christie? Jon Huntsman? Carson? Dude’s surging. I say next out will be Jindal, followed by Santorum, then Graham. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/132 "2015-09-21T21:43:19Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Kind of bizarre to bail at the first drop in the polls. Plenty of candidates have suffered worse and gone on to win the nomination. More than “the first drop”; his numbers have been spiraling down for weeks, and he’d dropped to the bottom rung of candidates (based on poll numbers). Over the past week, in particular, it’s become clear that there was increasing unhappiness (and maybe panic) in his camp, and it looks like the cash spigots were drying up (based on reports of unpaid bills). ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/133 "2015-09-21T21:48:00Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Bets on who’s next? Cruz? Carson? Christie? Jon Huntsman? Cruz is not dropping out, he’s going to stay in the background ready to pounce on the Trump idiots as soon as he is out. Carson might fade away now that Fiorina is the new hotness, but i doubt he drops before Graham or Santorum or Christie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/134 "2015-09-21T21:51:21Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Bets on who’s next? Cruz? Carson? Christie? Jon Huntsman? Cruz??? I don’t think that guy has even had his surge yet. He’s my least favorite candidate running, but I think he’s going places. I don’t think he’ll drop until actual voting begins. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/135 "2015-09-21T21:52:41Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Cruz is not dropping out, he’s going to stay in the background ready to pounce on the Trump idiots as soon as he is out. Carson might fade away now that Fiorina is the new hotness, but i doubt he drops before Graham or Santorum or Christie. Christie will stay in to try an secure a VP nom. He knows he can’t win the primary but he hopes to stay relevant til the end. ---
**Author:** ![John\_D\_Adamo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@John\_D\_Adamo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_D_Adamo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/136 "2015-09-21T21:58:10Z")
[Press conference forthcoming](http://www.politico.com/live-stream), for the interested. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/137 "2015-09-21T22:00:03Z")
Nobody’s been interested before. Why start now? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/138 "2015-09-21T22:00:56Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Carson? Dude’s surging. > > I say next out will be Jindal, followed by Santorum, then Graham. Santorum is on a mission from God, and isn’t going anywhere until the almighty tells him to. Graham isn’t trying to be President, he just wants to make sure there’s someone around to argue with Rand Paul. I doubt either will drop out soon, and Santorum might just hang out till the convention like he did last time. Jindal maybe. But I think he’s just running to up his name recognition before he has to go find a new job, so I imagine he’ll stick around until enough people drop so that he can get into the “big-kids” debates. ---
**Author:** ![John\_D\_Adamo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@John\_D\_Adamo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_D_Adamo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/139 "2015-09-21T22:08:06Z")
In the 1 minute press conference, Walker suspended his campaign. According to him, he’s suspending the campaign to allow the voters and the GOP to focus on one solid alternative to Donald Trump. Not the fact that he’s at less than 1%, no way! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052/140 "2015-09-21T22:29:18Z")
[ > [@Gov. Scott Walker](#): > > 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 that in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately. ]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_GOP\_2016\_WALKER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-21-18-13-34](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_WALKER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-21-18-13-34))“Called to lead” by dropping out of the race… yeah… it’s that kind of leadership that will… um… something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-walker-is-in/725052.md?page=8)