Scott Walker Quotes
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'
Walker, Scott. Interview by Bob Schieffer. Face the Nation, CBS, 15 Apr. 2012.
The problem for McCain was that many of the Bush supporters did not want change, and the opponents did not believe that McCain and the other Republican members of Congress really wanted reform and change from their policies of the recent past. McCain lost to Barack Obama.
Romney was notorious about changing his positions depending on what public office he was seeking. He had installed the basis of the ObamaCare health reform system as Governor of Massachusetts, but then appealing to the Republican right wing for the Presidential nomination by repudiating his health care reform approach. He also flip-flopped on other major positions such as abortion.
Although there are many historical and political thinkers who do not agree that upheavals are inevitable or desirable in America, Vann Woodward and many others follow the school of American thought led by Thomas Jefferson and others of the founding fathers. With the exception of the Civil War most of the American upheavals, though painful to many losing privilege and power have not been massively bloody and have been mostly political.
Scott Kevin Walker is an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.