This morning, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced the formation of a committee to investigate the possibility of running for president. This, of course, means that Scott Walker is running for president. To give you an idea of what Walker's angle is going to be, his committee is named "Our American Revival," and their goal is supposedly to reclaim "the shared values that make our country great." Walker is also in the news because Celtic punk band The Dropkick Murphys chastised Walker for using one of their songs as intro music at his successful Iowa speech over the weekend:

@ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!! Love, Dropkick Murphys

— Dropkick Murphys (@DropkickMurphys) January 25, 2015

Just yesterday, I was talking with someone about Walker's chances for the presidency. And, you know, the thing about Walker is that on paper, he's an ideal Republican presidential candidate. He's a rabid opponent of unions, a woman's right to choose, and gun control laws. He fought off a passionate recall attempt in 2012 and easily won re-election last November, meaning he's won the popular vote three times in four years. He says all the right things to appeal to Teabaggers, with the added bonus of not coming across as plastic like Rick Perry or a moron like Herman Cain. And his speech in Iowa reportedly wowed conservatives. You can decide for yourself on how that went:

The problem with covering presidential campaigns is that the human brain is desperate to draw analogies, and analogies are great until they suddenly don't work anymore. My brain really wants to put Scott Walker in the Tim Pawlenty slot: he's a governor from a midwestern state with solid conservative credentials, but he's personally boring as dirt. (And before you ask: yes, Walker's way more boring than Mitt Romney. Romney has a natural charm, like a well-appointed corporate hotel meeting room. Walker's lack of chin and mammoth forehead kind of splat against your eyes and then drip to the floor. He makes Rick Santorum look like David Hasselhoff.) Setting aside the above speech, I've never seen Walker give the kind of speech that moves a room. I've never seen a photograph of him where he didn't look awkward and uncomfortable. That's very similar to Pawlenty, who every Republican wanted to love in 2012 but simply couldn't.

But it's possible that maybe Walker can shoulder through the Romney vs. Bush circus to gain prominence. Maybe he's got more than one good speech in him. Maybe he won't fade into the wallpaper in debates. Maybe he can fake foreign policy talk well enough to sound like he knows what he's saying. Against all odds, maybe one day Walker will hire a photographer who doesn't make him look like a background character in Office Space. And if that happens, Walker suddenly might not fit into the Pawlenty box anymore.