Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker - who recently won his third election in four years and is openly considering a presidential bid - still thinks that “you have to be crazy” to want the top job at the White House.
“The closer you get to something like that the more you realize - and I say this only half jokingly - that you have to be crazy to want to be president,” Mr. Walker told Fox6 in a video flagged by Mediaite. “Anyone who has seen pictures of this president or any of the former presidents can see the before and after. No matter how fit, no matter how young they are, they age pretty rapidly when you look at their hair and everything else involved with it.”
As they do with virtually every potential candidate, family concerns would certainly seem to play a key factor in Mr. Walker’s decision whether or not to run. He said in the interview that other than maybe the president’s daughters, he doesn’t know of any other children of an elected official who have gone through the kind of scrutiny his own sons, Matt and Alex, have over the last few years.
“I pulled them both aside before they left [for college] and said ’there’s nothing in college that will be any more of a challenge for you than [what] we went through our first year as the governor and the first family,’” he said.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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