Scott Walker is not a national leader; he got out because he was a failed candidate.

Come on . . . every politician is entitled to spin the facts to try to make himself look better.   Right?     Of course.

But we also have the right not to buy it.   Case in point:    Scott Walker's exit strategy.   Rather than admit that he bombed, sinking from front-runner expected to win Iowa easily to less than 1% in the latest CNN poll, Walker painted himself as a chosen leader to fix what's wrong with this primary race:   there are just too many candidates, so the non-Trump vote gets sliced into little bits.

So Walker says he has been called to lead the way to downsize the crowded stage.

That falls in the definition of leadership as someone who figures out which way the crowd is heading . . . and runs to get at the front of the parade.

The fact is, Scott Walker was not ready for the national stage, and he may never be.  He just didn't know very much about world affairs, and he was pathetically inept at covering up how little he knew.

The next debate stage will not be so crowded -- not because of Walker's leading the lemmings off the cliff, but because the debate organizers are done with the big 10 . . . . or 11.   Rumor has it that (1) there will not be a "kiddy table" next time;   and (2) the main stage may be limited to eight.

So it seems pretty clear that Walker would not be in the next debate at all -- and that would be a humiliating end for him.  

So, thanks for your offer, Gov. Walker.   But it's really not necessary to pretend that God has called you to lead the way off stage.    Just go quietly, please.   If you can take Huckabee and Cruz and Jindal and Christie along with you, so much the better.

Ralph