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If you would prefer not to receive these promotions, please call customer service and ask to be placed on applied to health care our DO NOT RENT list. www.samaritanministries.org 13 JOEL.indd 2 6/8/12 11:04 AM Joel Belz Interpreting Scott Walker School choice may be the biggest long-term winner from Wisconsin’s June vote I for every promising Far better than letting ourselves get preoccupied politician who, when he or she fi rst appeared with rising and falling stars, I’d suggest, is to keep on the scene got me all excited and energized— our eyes on the direction of major culture-shaping >> and who I then discovered had feet of clay— issues. As a consequence of Scott Walker’s well, let’s just say I could make a sizeable r e m a r k a b l e victory, for example, how will life in contribution to some needy cause. Wisconsin—and perhaps in other parts of America All that comes to mind in the wake of the as well—prove to be diff erent in the months and avalanche of comments that fi lled my mailbox after years ahead? And sometimes it takes an election Wisconsin G ov. Scott Walker’s convincing electoral cycle or two, or even a decade or two, for such response to his opponents’ eff orts to recall him from patterns to be established and confi rmed. Ronald offi ce. “He’s got it all!” said one WORLD subscriber. Reagan’s role as a culture-changing president, for “He’s the future!” another emailed me. And several example, was not widely acknowledged in most dozen more of you got in touch with me in various quarters until his death—and that was years after ways to say that you too had gotten on the Walker he left offi ce. bandwagon. So it may be intriguing right now to ask whether Trouble is, no one seems to be quite sure just Scott Walker might end up as Mitt Romney’s where that bandwagon is headed. Media pundits running mate or if he has the requisite charisma to with their predictions were all over the place. One run for the presidency himself some d ay. But the or two suggested that G ov. Walker had earned the really important questions to ask after the June right to replace Mitt Romney vote in Wisconsin aren’t as the Republicans’ “presumed primarily about Scott Walker’s c a n d i d a t e ” in this year’s political future. e most election—even though Walker important consequence of had never even pretended to be Scott Walker’s key victory is in the race for president. likely to be its ripple eff ect At the other end, some argued over the next decade on the that the Wisconsin vote would issue of educational choice. actually help President Wisconsin has its own his- Obama’s reelection chances. toric role, especially in the city at would happen, they said, of Milwaukee, as a hospitable because the Wisconsin vote NEW HOPE: A School Choice rally at the laboratory for educational would so scare the American Capitol in Madison, Wis., in . vouchers and charter schools. public at large—striking them Now, Wisconsin has also as so radical and extreme—that they would return to strategically minimized the potentially hostile role the comfy promises that only President Obama can of the teachers unions. More than almost anywhere see America through the nation’s current crises. in the nation, and largely because of Scott Walker’s Anticipating the future of an individual remarkable courage, genuine educational diversity politician, though, is very much an iff y thing. may have the opportunity to fl ourish and thrive. Others besides Scott Walker have zipped to the top I don’t mean to imply that Walker’s role in public of the news cycle—and often deservedly so—only to life ought to be limited to a single issue. But choice discover how fi ckle a friend public fame can be. Ask in education has been a central focus during the Sarah, for example. Sarah who? Oh, come on! It controversial fi rst term of this son of a Baptist JOURNAL/AP was almost four years ago when many of us minister.