Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his non-campaign
campaign team continue to find new ways to embarrass themselves. Today’s
lesson in failure got a fact of basic American history wrong.
Team Walker tweeted:
It's hard to believe that it has been 505 years since the first settlers arrived at Jamestown. - TW
The problem with Walker’s tweet was that they were
off by 97 years. The first settlers did arrive in May of 1607, but 2015
minus 1607 is 408, not 505. With this kind of math is no wonder that
Scott Walker has driven the Wisconsin economy straight into the ground.
Team Walker later corrected their math error by calling it a Twitter
typo.
Blaming their bad math skills on a typo without
admitting that they did anything wrong is typical of the Republican
mantra that mistakes are never to be admitted.
Walker has been dodging and hiding out from the
national media for months after a series of high-profile gaffes put the
brakes on his early presidential campaign momentum. Walker has seen his
lead slip in Iowa and New Hampshire turn into a free for all. Scott Walker is the preferred candidate of the Koch brothers, but he has quickly developed a reputation for opening his mouth and inserting his foot.
Walker has shown himself to be equally inept at foreign and domestic policy, and the gaffe that drove him underground was his comparison of ISIS to a computer virus.
Scott
Walker can’t handle doing interviews with the media, and tweeting is a
real problem. The man who thought that he could ride to the White House
by comparing labor unions to ISIS is looking more and more like Sarah Palin with each passing day.
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