title: Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge
author:  Scott Walker 
description: &#8220;This guy Walker is one of the gutsiest, toughest,&#160;strongest, [most] committed guys I have seen&#160;in Republican politics in a long time.&#8221;
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  Their first candidate was a youngish fellow with a list of minor achievements
  and small qualifications, plus a handsome wife willing to attend some portion
  of the rallies and fundraising events. He was the brave soldier who stepped
  forward when the state’s less-popular political party couldn’t find anybody
  who might win. The conservative opponent was unbeatable. Even agnostic voters
  considered the current governor as being Chosen. Once the invisible lieutenant
  governor, he stepped into the office when his predecessor’s Blackhawk went
  down in a freak hailstorm. Proper words and a few strategic tears at the
  funeral cemented the man’s rule over the sprawling state, and the new chief
  executive had served twenty-two months without scandal, scrupulously
  accomplishing nothing that tested his base supporters while avoiding becoming