“My guess is that, under a President Walker, it wouldn’t last his first full term of office, and I could live with that.”
Isn’t pandering a form of lying? I suppose all you CAN do is guess about what he really will do and what he really believes after he is elected.
I don’t know about everyone else but I have had enough of lying, pandering, flip flopping and having to guess and be surprised after the fact. It makes me lose trust in the candidate to see this happening especially when it is on more than one policy. Also, it makes me think that the candidate thinks that I am stupid and easy to fool. Does the candidate believe that the voters are so easily misled? What does that tell you about what he thinks of us?
If Walker is supposed to be fearless, able to stand up to and take on the left, then let him stand up, say what he really believes and let the chips fall where they may. Let us choose our candidate without being manipulated.
I have always had great respect for Scott Walker. It may be that he is being given bad advice and guidance. However it doesn’t reflect well on him.
Those of us who know him in WI have seen what he has done and know that he has kept most of his promises to us. However the rest of the country this is not the case. Many voters are seeing him for the first time and forming opinions. I now even am asking myself “Who IS Scott Walker and can I trust him?”
>>Let us choose our candidate without being manipulated.<<
The problem is that you never really know for sure whether or not you’re being manipulated. Take Ted Cruz. He supposedly is saying what the anti-ethanol-subsidy crowd wants to hear (I’m in that crowd, by the way), but do we really know how big a priority it will be if he’s elected? Or whether it will be a distraction for a time?
For that matter, once he’s faced with people who will face immediate loss of jobs and investment if he cuts the ethanol subsidy to zero and the mandate to zero in one fell swoop, will he relent and go at it more gradually, much the same as Walker has suggested he would do?
Cruz could be pandering to us, just as Walker is almost certainly pandering to the ethanol crowd. And both could be sincere. I’ve been on a board before, and sudden change isn’t always the right course. Sometimes it’s more important to just get the direction changed and figure out a reasonable time span for phasing something back out. Otherwise people who’ve spent years setting up for the old direction of things have their legs cut out from under them and you lose them forever.
What recommends Walker to people over any other candidate is that he’s, oh hell, I’ll say it, he’s walked the walk. We know with certainty what he’ll do if it’s possible to get it done. What more can any conservative ask, I ask you?