This is hilarious.
Via Hot Air:
If this is the best that the Chicago Tribune staff can come up with to preemptively attack Scott Walker’s potential presidential bid, he may be in better shape than I thought. Aaron Blake burns up a bit of ink to ponder whether the Walker campaign is doomed because, gosh darn it, the guy is just too Midwestern. (This is not an exaggeration. The actual title of the article is, “Is Scott Walker too Midwestern to be president?”)
Bloomberg declared this week: “If Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker runs for president, he should take a good hard look at the styling of another Midwestern governor, Tim Pawlenty, and what doomed that candidacy in 2012.” …
Likening two candidates because of geography, of course, isn’t completely fair. But I subscribe to the idea that there is such a thing as being too Midwestern to be president. Candidates in this 24/7 media age quite simply need to be compelling. Call it the “charisma threshold.”
As a fellow Minnesotan, when I saw Pawlenty telling corny jokes and looking exceedingly Midwestern milquetoast in the 2012 campaign, I wondered how he would excite anybody enough to assert himself as a front-runner. A president needs to be seen as forceful and decisive; as Garrison Keillor will point out, being upper-Midwestern is often antithetical to that.