If he doesn't win the primaries he might be able to rebrand himself as a sleep aid.
Watching Scott Walker dodge every question that comes his way is, I have to admit, becoming somewhat of a sport. How little can a politician say and still be considered a politician? Could he replace his head with a pumpkin, and how long would it take
anyone to notice?
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said on Thursday he won't comment on whether President Barack Obama "loves America," but he'll certainly tell you that he loves America.
As with each of the questions Walker valiantly hurls himself off balconies to avoid, this isn't a particularly challenging one. Asking someone if they think the president of the United States loves America is a throwaway question. It's all right to suppose that maybe people who lead the nation but belong to the other of America's two major political parties do, in fact, still love America. But it's becoming a question reporters honestly have to ask these days because the conspiracy theories of the most demented portions of the base and the theories of actual Republican presidential candidates standing at podiums have become increasingly interchangeable.
"I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said, as quoted by Politico. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”
"The mayor can speak for himself," Walker said on "Squawk Box." "I'm not going to comment on what the President thinks or not. He can speak for himself as well."
How bold of you. Of course he'd love to comment on the crazy person saying crazy things about the president, but no doubt his staff, at least the remaining unindicted ones, have calculated that openly disagreeing with the crazy person would cost him eight points in the Iowa polls.
"But did you agree with those comments? Were you offended? What was your reaction when you heard them?" [host Andrew Ross Sorkin] pressed.
"I'm in New York. I'm used to people saying things that are aggressive out there," the governor responded.
I wonder what it's like to eat breakfast at Scott Walker's house. It must be one long monologue of Scott Walker describing things that are happening around him without giving any inkling about whether those things are good or bad. "I am having toast. With a spread, of a type I cannot comment on. There is currently an animal in the living room, it may be a cat, a dog, or a bear. This linoleum floor is a specific color."
So we know he doesn't like unions and isn't a fan of Wisconsin's universities, but those may be the last actual opinions we get from the man between now and primary season.