Live from La Farine: I really do not understand this claim by the usually-sharp Nick Confessore that Scott Walker was driven out of the Republican presidential nominee race by lack of the right kind of money. If you think that you should be president or even that the advertising spending of your SuperPAC makes a positive contribution to the process, you get in your SUV and you drive about Iowa and New Hampshire from town hall meeting to town hall meeting accompanied by an aide with a smartphone to record and post YouTube video, eating in diners and sleeping in Motel 6.
That your campaign kitty is broke is simply not a problem:
: Demise of Scott Walker’s 2016 Bid Shows Limits of ‘Super PACs’: "In the age of ‘super PACs,’ a presidential campaign can die of thirst on the shores of the Great Lakes...
...Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was among the most successful fund-raisers in his party, with a clutch of billionaires in his corner and tens of millions of dollars behind his presidential ambitions. But... even unlimited money has its limits. While a super PAC supporting him, Unintimidated, was... on track to raise as much as $40 million through the end of the year... Mr. Walker’s campaign committee was running dry... unable to find enough money to mount a last stand in Iowa, a state that once favored him....
Super PACs, Mr. Walker learned, cannot pay rent, phone bills, salaries, airfares or ballot access fees. They are not entitled to the preferential rates on advertising that federal law grants candidates.... Mr. Walker’s decline and fall hint at the systemic dangers of the super-PAC-driven financial model on which virtually the entire Republican field has staked its chances...
