Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ƙarshen 1940s, Walter ya tashi a cikin Jam'iyyar Republican ta Wisconsin ta hanyar yin abokai, aiki ga wasu, da kuma samun goyon bayan masana'antun Tom Coleman, babban karfi a cikin Jam'iyyar. A shekara ta 1948, Kohler wakili ne a taron kasa
kuma ya bayyana a fili cewa shi dan Republican ne mai matsakaici a cikin nau'in dan takarar shugaban kasa na Republican, Thomas Dewey.