Having Demonized Moderates, GOP Has No Veterans Around To Talk Sense To Walker

Talk radio, Tea Partiers and hard-right Walkerites tied to corporate funders and have driven moderate voices from the Republican Party, and now there are no wise people with cross-party cred near Walker's inner circle to pull him, the party and the state from the brink.

I heard a story the other day about a person getting chewed out in the Governor's Office for expressing in front of Walker less than 100% enthusiasm for the anti-union push.

Walker is learning a tough lesson that gets magnified a thousand-fold in politics:

People are their own worst enemy.