New York Times
By Maggie Haberman
March 19, 2015
Gov.
Scott Walker of Wisconsin is being criticized by some conservatives
after his digital aide Liz Mair resigned over intemperate Twitter posts
about the sacred status
of the Iowa caucuses in the presidential nominating process.
A
quick recap: Ms. Mair, who was working for Mr. Walker as he prepares a
national campaign, had written negative things on Twitter in recent
months about Iowa, saying
that the state had embarrassed the Republican Party and should lose its
first-in-the-nation position.
News
of the tweets was first reported by The Des Moines Register, then
received broader national coverage, before Ms. Mair told The Associated
Press on Tuesday night that
she was stepping down. Instead of ending the flap for Mr. Walker, the
move created a new one.
Jonah
Goldberg, a conservative writer, took to National Review to suggest
that Mr. Walker, who has attracted interest among Republican Party
elites in recent weeks, had
flunked an early test.
“I
get that Walker needs to win Iowa and that staffers aren’t more
important than the candidate,” Mr. Goldberg wrote. “But principles are.
If Walker didn’t want a critic
of the Iowa caucuses on his payroll he shouldn’t have hired one. But he
did. And throwing her under the bus for this, suggests not only that
he’s got some problems getting ready for prime time, it also suggests he
can get rolled by the Iowa G.O.P. establishment.
What happens when he gets to Washington?”
Erick
Erickson, a conservative commentator and founder of the blog RedState,
wrote: “Given Liz’s work history, I will put it to you this way — Team
Walker has botched
this.”
“There’s
just no way Liz Mair resigned with it being her idea. I haven’t talked
to her yet, but there’s just no way,” Mr. Erickson wrote. “So instead of
Walker owning
this, he’s passed the ball and made a staffer off herself. That’s
unfortunate and plays into the ‘not ready for prime time’ theme already
developing around Team Walker. At least it is early.”
Mr.
Walker’s strong showing in the early so-called invisible primary among
donors and activists has been fueled by a strong speech he gave at an
Iowa candidate forum,
one that wildly exceeded fairly low expectations for how he would fare.
The flap over Ms. Mair’s resignation could prove to be a distraction
for someone trying to prove a level of seriousness, and for someone who
needs to perform well in Iowa.
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