Here's Wisconsin governor and 2016 GOP hopeful Scott Walker in Washington, D.C., on Friday,
claiming that he has avoided social issues as governor:
Reporters kept pressing Walker to talk social issues. He kept demurring: "The things I focus in on are economic and fiscal issues in my state. That's what they hired me to do. To give an example outside of politics if I was hiring somebody to be the chief executive of a company and I wanted them to focus on development and sales it wouldn't bother me -- well, it would bother me, but I'd get over it -- if they were a Vikings or Bears fan but not a Packers fan so long as they didn't make my company about that."
And here's Walker, a little more than four months
earlier:
As promised, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Friday that will force women to submit to an ultrasound at least 24 hours before having an abortion and requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. As with the 2012 bill gutting the state's equal pay law, Walker signed the bill gutting Wisconsin women's access to abortion quietly and in private.
Apparently, Walker isn't willing to publicly boast about trying to force women to get medically unnecessary ultrasounds, but that doesn't change the fact that as governor, he did exactly what the religious right asked him to do—and that as president, he would do the same.
Walker might be able to get away with dodging the issue in front of a bunch of reporters, particularly because the courts have blocked Walker's ultrasound bill, but if he win the GOP nomination, the Democratic nominee—be it Hillary Clinton or someone else—is going have a field day branding him as Governor Ultrasound.