The most talked about Scott Walker interview Sunday was with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, where the union-busting Wisconsin governor said that Republicans should turn to chief executives for both positions on their ticket in 2016.
But in an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page, which also posted on Sunday, Walker took another glancing swipe at 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
Asked whether the results of the 2013 gubernatorial races demonstrate that the GOP needs to embrace a more moderate image going forward, Walker invoked a comparison with the 2012 nominee.
“Out of the 30 governors in America who are now Republican … all 30 of them are probably more conservative than Mitt Romney is. It’s not that we need to change our core principles….Republican governors are much more optimistic.”
By that measure, he believes that potential 2016 rival Chris Christie is even more conservative than Romney.
While Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio seemed to downplay Christie’s electoral success in New Jersey, Walker took one for the team, defending the current crop of governors as a whole.
Walker was a critique of Romney’s campaign amid the summer of 2012, stirring up some bad blood with the nominee’s supporters that hasn’t yet dissolved.
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