Scott Walker on quitting college: People judge ‘what have you done lately?’

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker pushed back on Tuesday on questions over his college exit, saying he simply left early to take a job and people want to judge others on their recent records anyway.

Mr. Walker called such criticism over not graduating from people like former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean the kind of “elitist, government-knows-best, top-down approach from Washington we’ve heard [for] years, and I don’t know about you…but we’ve had an Ivy League-trained lawyer in the White House for the last six years who was pretty good at reading off the teleprompter but done a pretty lousy job leading this country.”

“I’d rather have a fighter who’s actually proven he [could] take on the big government special interests and win,” Mr. Walker said on Fox News’ “The Kelly File.”

“I think there’s a lot of Americans out there that scratch their head and say we have people who helped found Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, plenty of other successful businesses [and] enterprises across this country did exactly the same sort of thing I did. Have an opportunity to start a career, an opportunity to start a business, senior year in college, went out and did it,” he added.

The possible 2016 GOP presidential contender pointed out that his two sons are in college and that he and his wife are supporting the effort.

“So we value college for those who pursue that career, but in the end, you don’t have to have that to be successful like many Americans have over the years,” he said.

“I think people want to judge ’what have you done lately?’” he said. “And to me, in terms of world politics, I’d like to have a governor just like Ronald Reagan was a governor back before 1980 come in with a strong sense of leadership, that time to take on the Soviets and others who were adversaries [of] the United States.”