Nailed it.
Now that Republican Gov. Scott Walker has appropriately cratered the Wisconsin budget for no good reason other than having some rich fellows tell him he should do that, he's got his sights set on doing the same for the rest of our glorious nation. This means he has suddenly realized he has to give a damn about foreign policy. Let's see how that's working out, and by "let's see" I mean prepare yourself for a chain of meaningless cliches so vapid the network had to duct-tape Walker to the chair
to keep him from floating away.
[Scott Walker]: “Aggressively, we need to take the fight to ISIS and any other radical Islamic terrorists around the world… I think we need to have an aggressive strategy anywhere around the world.”
[ABC News host Martha Raddatz]: “But what does that mean? I don’t know what ‘aggressive strategy’ means.”
Walker: “Ultimately, we have to be prepared to put boots on the ground, if that’s what it takes.”
Raddatz: “U.S. boots on the ground in Syria?”
Walker: “Well, I don’t think that’s an immediate plan.”
Take the fight to ISIS! Be aggressive! Boots on the ground! But not if you ask me what that means! Yeah, that's positively Palinesque. And Scott Walker can see Minnesota from his house.
Walker is in a bit of a tight spot here, because he has exactly zero foreign policy expertise or experience or even past professed interest; his most striking military victories have titles like the Battle of Singing Protesters vs. The Statehouse Lawn. There is little indication he could find Syria on a map, and his proposal of "boots on the ground" seems suspiciously like a phrase he read off a placemat.
Again, I know a great many people consider Walker a formidable force in the primaries—"I wouldn’t bet against me," he says—but I have serious doubts that the man's glaring vapidity will wear well on a national stage. If this is all an elaborate Republican plot to make Rick Perry look like an intellectual, however, it's proceeding nicely.