Nervous New York Times looking for dirt on Scott Walker

Here are some things I'm looking for in a 2016 Republican presidential nominee:

• A track record of having governed effectively and gotten positive results with conservative policies.
• A track record of standing up without fear to political bullies like labor unions.
• The ability to explain one's policies in a clear and convincing way.
• The ability to satisfy conservatives with the right policy positions, and to satisfy establishment types with a solid record of results.

At this point, I see one candidate out there who offers all four, and that's Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. He is not the one who's getting the most media play, as we continue to hear about the likes of Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. But while there are things to be said for all of the above (and things to be said against them as well), I don't think anyone offers the complete package like Walker does.

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It looks like the official newsletter of the Democratic Party, also known as the New York Times, has noticed this as well and is a little nervous about it, which is why they are looking for dirt on Walker now in the hope they can derail his candidacy before it even starts. But if all they can find is what's reported here, Walker might want to have his people start measuring the drapes for the Oval Office:

But with the prospect of an even higher office on the horizon, Mr. Walker finds his earlier track record under increasing scrutiny, not only for how closely it hews to conservative principles but also for the criminal convictions of some staff members and the release of staff emails that included racial and ethnic slurs. These date to his time as Milwaukee County executive, a post he held from 2002 to 2010, and raise questions about the people he chose as confidants, the same sorts of questions that have caused more acute troubles for Mr. Christie in the scandal surrounding lane closings at the George Washington Bridge. Three of Mr. Walker’s former aides and several other associates have been convicted of crimes in an investigation into whether campaign work was being done on county time. That investigation exposed the insensitive email exchanges among his aides, like this chain email forwarded by a former chief of staff in the county office: “I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is H.I.V.-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh dear God, please don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!”

Seriously, this is it? Some people who worked for Walker sent some idiotic e-mails? If you could read the e-mail exchanges of everyone in America - yeah, I can only imagine. Scott Walker has been a highly effective governor who took on a state in serious economic distress and implemented conservative policies to bring about significant improvement. And it hasn't been easy. He faced a recall attempt led by public employee unions who were incensed that he weakened their collective bargaining rights. But he survived that recall attempt because the people of the state knew his policies were working, and they were able to tell the difference between people with legitimate grievances and those who had spent years gaming the system for their advantage and were simply in a snit because they would no longer be permitted to do so. It's no surprise the Democratic Party propagandists at the New York Times are looking for a way to discredit him. What a nightmare scenario it must be for Hillary Clinton to run against Walker. She has never governed anything and has no track record of achievement whatsoever. He has excelled as an executive leader and has shown he knows how to solve problems left for him by a liberal predecessor. Hillary vs. Walker would be about the easiest choice the voters of the country have ever been asked to make. Despite what happened in 2008 and 2012, it's hard to imagine there are enough dumb people in this country to get that one wrong.