Bottle Rocket, Not Shooting Star: Scott Walker's Anticlimatic Campaign Announcement

Surprise, surprise...not: Scott Walker will announce his run for Wisconsin Governor.

Has there been a less stimulating, and more telegraphed political punch in Wisconsin - - ever - - and one that carries the sting of a jab thrown by "The Simpson's" Mr. Burns?

Update: Jim Klasuer , former Gov. Tommy Thompson's former Department of Administration Secretary, is signalling that the Thompson money and organization should shift to prospective candidate Mark Neumann.

Neumann is a former very-far rightwing member of Congress whose seat is now held by Paul Ryan, with a statewide loss to US Senator Russ Feingold on the Neumann resume.

Klauser was Thompson's alter ego, unofficial Deputy Governor, lead strategist and fund-raiser (his wife was the Thompson campaign treasurer), and is deeply embedded in the upper echelons of Wisconsin's private sector and the Waukesha County GOP base.

In other words: where the money is.

I'd say the GOP is heading for a primary blood letting, with Walker likely again to lose a primary struggle, as he did the last time around to what was exposed as a weak candidacy put forward by then-Green Bay Congressman Mark Green.

Poor Walker: trapped in a job he never really wanted to solve - - Milwaukee County Executive - - but with over-reaching ambition, and when all is said and done, another electoral smack down on the way.

Advantage, Doyle.