Since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tries so very, very hard to express no controversial opinions on any topic whatsoever, save
unions and
immigration, apparently, it stands to reason that his campaign staff have devised a plan to ensure reporters will not be able to even lob impertinent questions at
His Eminent Translucency.
On Tuesday, Walker's policy team held a press call with reporters to discuss the Wisconsin governor's health care plan, as well as his intention to repeal and replace Obamacare. But when reporters tried to submit a question, they were greeted by a press aide who demanded to know what question each reporter intended to ask.
"Was on Gov. Walker health plan press call. First time as a reporter I've ever had my questions pre-screened before I could ask them," Stephanie Armour, the Wall Street Journal's health care policy reporter, tweeted after the call.
This makes sense, of a sort; you don't want the poor man overheating just because you, a devious reporter, don't understand the difference between Walker's
complete non-plan for reversing Obamacare and doing Precious Damn Little instead as opposed to, say, every single other Republican non-plan released over the last half-decade vowing to do the same thing.
Nonetheless, this sort of thing suggests that Scott Walker's campaign handlers know full well that their man is at his best when having to talk least. How long he can sustain a prolonged national campaign with that strategy remains to be seen.