Scott Walker proves the value of a college education

[Gallium]

He could have at least let Jeb flounder in the spotlight for a couple of days.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

No one will care about this.

[Skye]

https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/598557067507585024

Doesn't TW mean Team Walker? But from 505 to 408? Sure, it was a typo alright.

[King]

Yea TW means his dumb intern did it. Typo aside, tweeting in celebration of an odd year anniversary of an event is weird as hell.

[bobloblaw]

He could have at least let Jeb flounder in the spotlight for a couple of days.

What college did you go to where you learned about Jamestown at age 18. I learned it in grade school

[Lincoln Republican]

I agree nobody will really care about this.

I would say that a very small percentage of Americans would know when the first settlers arrived at Jamestown, and one would have to be a real history nerd to really know the answer, not that there is anything wrong with history nerds you understand.

In the broader matter of a college education, however, I still contend that a post secondary education is a valuable asset, and that that is the least we should expect in the 21st century of those who would propose to lead us.

I would say as well that there are very few university graduates who would as well know the answer to that matter.  

[Ebsy]

He didn't even write the tweet, so this is pretty much a non-issue no one will ever care about.

[daveosupremo]

https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/598557067507585024

Doesn't TW mean Team Walker? But from 505 to 408? Sure, it was a typo alright.

I believe it's Tonette Walker, his wife.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

#JAMESTOWNGATE

WALKER IS FINISHED

[TJ in Oregon]

Clearly because his last semester at Marquette would have covered American colonial history.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Clearly because his last semester at Marquette would have covered American colonial history.

or arithmetic.

[The Other Castro]

Guys this is clearly a metaphor for how Scott intends to bring America into the future. Shame on you college-types for lacking imagination.

[Indy Texas]

https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/598557067507585024

Doesn't TW mean Team Walker? But from 505 to 408? Sure, it was a typo alright.

I believe it's Tonette Walker, his wife.

Maybe the point was, "And then Tonette thought it had been 505 years since Jamestown was settled. Women and math, am I right? This is why we need to make sure they have to have a baby when they get raped."

[WVdemocrat]

#JAMESTOWNGATE

WALKER IS FINISHED

^Ha!

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

It's hard to believe that it's been 97 years since Scott Walker tweeted.

Plus or minus 97 years, of course.

[CountryClassSF]

SCANDAL!

[Averroës Nix]

Even Marco Rubio's JD hasn't been enough to salvage his Twitter feed:

[Slander and/or Libel]

I agree nobody will really care about this.

I would say that a very small percentage of Americans would know when the first settlers arrived at Jamestown, and one would have to be a real history nerd to really know the answer, not that there is anything wrong with history nerds you understand.

In the broader matter of a college education, however, I still contend that a post secondary education is a valuable asset, and that that is the least we should expect in the 21st century of those who would propose to lead us.

I would say as well that there are very few university graduates who would as well know the answer to that matter. 

You don't have to be a history nerd. You just have to be a Virginian.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Even Marco Rubio's JD hasn't been enough to salvage his Twitter feed:

LOL, that does that include when we annexed Texas so that they could keep slavery, which was banned in Mexico?

[Mr. Illini]

It's been well known for awhile that Scotty was 'Left Behind'

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Even Marco Rubio's JD hasn't been enough to salvage his Twitter feed:

LOL, that does that include when we annexed Texas so that they could keep slavery, which was banned in Mexico?

Actually, Texas was already independent from Mexico at the time. Granted it was a pretext and without going into the dynamics of Santa Anna being deposed by the time he signed the treaty, the actual dispute was over the location of the border between Texas and Mexico and the US wanted it all.

The actual hypocritical war was fought ten years earlier when a bunch of Southerners who had moved to Texas revolted so that they could have the freedom to run slave plantations there. Texas probably would have kept Slavery without the US annexing it and possibly beyond 1865.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Even Marco Rubio's JD hasn't been enough to salvage his Twitter feed:

LOL, that does that include when we annexed Texas so that they could keep slavery, which was banned in Mexico?

Actually, Texas was already independent from Mexico at the time. Granted it was a pretext and without going into the dynamics of Santa Anna being deposed by the time he signed the treaty, the actual dispute was over the location of the border between Texas and Mexico and the US wanted it all.

The actual hypocritical war was fought ten years earlier when a bunch of Southerners who had moved to Texas revolted so that they could have the freedom to run slave plantations there. Texas probably would have kept Slavery without the US annexing it and possibly beyond 1865.

The Texas revolt would have happened even without the issue of slavery. The centralizing policies of Santa Anna caused revolts in nonslaveholding regions of Mexico as well, for reasons in ways reminiscent of the American rebellion from England - taxes, disbanding of militia, limited representation, etc.

As far as Cruz's statement, for much of the history of America, and for other nations as well, people saw no contradiction between expanding freedom to others and expanding territory - the two might go hand in hand in the view of the people and their leaders.  The British Navy fought the slave trade in the course of their imperialistic mission to dominate the world's seas. The Spanish-American War was fought to free the Cubans from tyranny and also to kick a rival out of the hemisphere.  Maybe World War I is the closest thing to what Cruz is declaring, where the US didn't have a strategic territorial interest in contrast to the European powers.  That didn't mean US foreign policy stopped caring about having control of geostrategic locales in other instances.

[CountryClassSF]

Gov. Walker knows how to pronounce "corpsman" and that there aren't 57 states. 

[Slander and/or Libel]

Gov. Walker knows how to pronounce "corpsman" and that there aren't 57 states. 

Go away.

[CountryClassSF]

Gov. Walker knows how to pronounce "corpsman" and that there aren't 57 states. 

Go away.

Hmm, so mocking is OK in some cases, and not in others. Got it.