Some major GOP donors are afraid Scott Walker actually believes what he says

[applegrove]

Some major GOP donors are afraid Scott Walker actually believes what he says

by Matthew Yglesias at Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831247/scott-walker-true-believer

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In politics, you have your realists and you have your true believers.

To say that Obama "didn't mean it" when he said he believed marriage is between a man and a woman is a little too simplistic. The point is that Obama was a realist. He wasn't prepared to take any political risks on behalf of the cause of marriage equality. At the same time, he was clearly committed to taking a pro-equality stance where politically viable. And he set about appointing federal judges who share the generally LGBTQ-friendly worldview of the elite Democratic Party. If the Supreme Court rules this week to make marriage equality the law of the land, it will be because Obama was in office to fill two vacancies — an office he might not have held had he taken a bolder stance.

Realists do what they have to do to get through the day (or the week or the month or the year), and then do what they can to deliver for their core supporters. It can work quite well, even when it aggravates activists.

True believers are different. They push the boundaries in inconvenient ways. They are indispensable for creating real political change, but they can also be dangerous and unpredictable. And it's probably not a coincidence that they rarely end up sitting in the Oval Office. It's simply too risky.


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[hifiguy]

1. Snotty believes as gospel truth

Every word the Kochs tell him to believe.

[AuntPatsy]

2. Interesting article..

[niyad]

3. nss

isn't that why they supported him in the first place?

[octoberlib]

4. This is downright weird.

He doesn't just like Ronald Reagan; he and his wife got married on Reagan's birthday and hold an annual Reagan-themed anniversary dinner. Apparently he can't even pretend to be insincere about marriage equality.

[still_one]

5. that concern should apply to all the GOP candidates