Salon’s Luke Brinker questions GQ quotes from Walker on how he can be a kinder, gentler, right-wing Republican, while still dishing out the hurt for most of us and cash for a few. “It takes a confirmed cynic to make the case that what a politician believes matters less than the fact that he or she believes something,” Brinker writes, later adding: “And the Walker view that candidates are as much products to be sold as agents of particular agendas reflects the same outlook that has debased our electoral process.”
Via St. Walker: Grace notes in a graceless politician @ Uppity Wisconsin.