Don't bet on the Journal Sentinel's Walker wish-list

The newspaper's editorial board would like to see Walker change his mind and endorse an increased minimum wage, take federal Medicaid funding he's refused and withdraw support for mandatory ultrasound examinations for women seeking legal abortions, among other moderate-to-liberal position changes outside his "comfort zone."

These positions would be in direct opposition to defining actions which he championed enthusiastically - - a flip-floppy breakdown that would infuriate the far-right, talk radio base he needs for his own advancement and the approval of Fox & Friends to outflank Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and fellow Tea Party candidates-in-waiting, like Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, et al.

You might as well hope Walker installs a solar collector on top of the Governor's Mansion, tells the Koch brothers he's ordering a fleet of Chevy electric Volts and Toyota Prius hybrids for the state and asks President Obama to send back that Amtrak money, too.

With a side order of financing for light rail.

There's no way Walker becomes a Dwight Eisenhower or Nelson Rockefeller Republican or some kind of fusion politico now, if ever.

Walker is who he is - - a rigid ideologue and partisan tactician beholden to rigid, ideological, tactical billionaires whose corporate agendas do not include any concerns for minimum wage workers and low-income Medicaid recipients, except perhaps as readily-available burger flippers or hotel maids.

Walker is not the better someone of their dreams whom outside observers wish he were, or would become.