RUN, SCOTT, RUN: Considering the current state of most colleges, having no degree could be a point in Gov. Walker's favor.

Considering the current state of most colleges (and of their graduates) this could be a point in his favor.

As institutions, colleges have been going downhill since the late 1960’s, but in recent years they have seemed like asylums run by the inmates, with their passion for courses in race and gender studies, free speech suppression, and the Duke LaCrosse scandal, the Penn State pedophilia disaster, the Rolling-Stone-gang-rape fiasco at the University of Virginia, and the performance art staged by a Columbia student who drags a mattress around with her on campus to protest an alleged act of rape. In fact, college seems the place to avoid if you value your checkbook or your sanity, and the academic definitions of intellect don’t seem to go far in real life.

The two greatest presidents in American history (Lincoln and Washington) did not get through grade school, and the only other one to have seen the country through a genuine life-and-death crisis was called a “third rate intellect” by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and “Feather Duster” by his Roosevelt relatives, for his unbearable lightness of mind. But he was weighty enough to sense early on that Hitler meant business, to keep Britain afloat by his ‘Lend Lease’ provision, and to authorize the Manhattan Project that ended the Pacific War months sooner than otherwise possible.

Truman the dropout set in place the policies by which the Cold War would be won later on by Ronald Reagan, a graduate of a very small school no one had heard of who was described later in life as a dunce.

Walker is in very good company....