Seems About Right to Me

Tom McGuire at Just One Minute sums ups the GOP presidential race in the wake of CPAC:

I am so Anybody But Hillary (GOOO, JWebb!) I can barely approach this topic and I have no interest in bashing any of the current crop of Republicans, but I prefer governors over Senators, what with the executive experience and all, which means Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio move well down on my list.

And as engaging as he is, politics isn't brain surgery, so Ben Carson will have to hang around as a VP possibility. And on that topic, Jodi Ernst will run for President one day (if she were a Democrat it would be this day) but she is young, time is on her side and I imagine she will get VP chatter but that's it.

But enough with the prevarication and on to the equivocation! I will be all-in for whoever we nominate but my pick du jour is Scott Walker. And he has already driven the media insane, so he has that going for him.

My preference for governors and ex-governors does not extend to Jeb Bush; not that I have horrible policy problems with Jeb, but three Bushes seems a bit excessive, much like two Clintons.

And speaking of Walker, he has had a remarkably good week, as an MSM has gone berserk in its attempt to preemptively destroy him, and are committing journolistic malpractice at a rate that even they are struggling to hide:

Media tries to smear Walker on campus sex assault reporting, gets it horribly wrong.

Members of the media were quick to report that, included in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget, was a removal of the requirements that colleges report campus sexual assault statistics to the state.

The Daily Beast, Huffington Post and others all jumped on a report in Jezebel that tried to paint Walker as being unsympathetic to sexual assault victims. Daily Beast writer Brian Weidy went so far as to claim that Walker’s proposal was “just short of explicitly violating Title IX regulations” and possible even “crossing a legal line.”

So not only is Walker a terrible person who hates victims, but he’s also maybe breaking the law. Or so they said. But for all their eagerness to pile on a leading GOP candidate for president (note the contrast to reporting on Obama in 2008), they were just plain wrong. The outlets involved had to retract the story, although a simple Google News search could have spared them the humiliation.

Walker had actually included these changes in his budget at the request of the University of Wisconsin. The school had requested that the governor remove the requirements because they were duplicative. (my bold)

Even when caught flat-footed and red-handed, the red brigades could not be found showing shame:

Hey, @natashavc, Sorry Your Dishonest Scott Walker Smear Got Breitbarted

Breitbart (verb) — to expose dishonesty or corruption in a way that destroys the elite media’s preferred narrative, especially when done by a citizen-journalist.

Example: “Brian Cates totally Breitbarted that Walker smear.”

20 seconds of Googling would have cleared up what was going on here, but it was apparently more important to some to rush a piping hot new Walker smear out the door before doing any due diligence.

Jezebel’s “senior political reporter” Natasha Vargas-Cooper gotBreitbarted, exposed as a dishonest and corrupt partisan hack, by a guy who did 20 seconds of Googling.

 Last word goes to Dave Burge: