Scott Walker will take his time deciding to run for president, because age is but a number.
If Walker, Wisconsin’s Republican governor, waits 20 years to run for president, he would still be the same age potential political foe Hillary Clinton is now as she prepares to possibly run in 2016 — something that works to his advantage and doesn’t put pressure on him, he said.
The closer one gets to running for president, the more crazy one must be, Walker — who is 47 — also said in a Sunday interview with Milwaukee’s WITI-TV.
“The closer you get to something like that, the more you realize — and I say this only half-jokingly — that you have to be crazy to want to be president,” he said.
“And anyone who has seen pictures of this president or any of the former presidents can see the before and after. No matter how fit, no matter how young they are, they age pretty rapidly,” said Walker, who was just re-elected to his second term as governor.
As conservatives around the country continue to pressure him to run for president in 2016, Walker continues to stress that he will serve out the rest of his terms as governor.
“The only thing I think someone … should run for president not because they want to be or yearn to be, but because they feel called to,” he said. “Right now, I still feel called to be the governor of the state of Wisconsin, and I’m going to do the best job I can over the next four years.”
But this hasn’t stopped him from digging at Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her age — 67. Last week on Fox News, Walker called her approach to politics both “old” and “tired.”
Should he decide to run in 2016, Walker will have quite a challenge from fellow Republicans.
In a RealClearPolitics average of polls, Walker is polling ninth, almost eight points behind leader Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
