Indeed.
Do we vet our own candidates in the primaries and caucuses, or allow the Dems and Liberal Media to vet them in the general?
The answer, which Malkin is doing the service of stating, is obvious. Get all the controversial stuff out early, let the candates learn from it and having to address it, and for the one who effectively does so and survives be able to dismiss it as “old news” in the Fall.
This applied to ALL candidates, not just Walker. Anything that doesn’t kill them in the primaries only makes them stronger in the general.
And to add, what would the 2000 election have looked like had Bush come out early and admitted to (and spun to his advantage) the Kennebunkport DUI?
The other side loves October Surprises. I’d much rather force them to fake something up (like the Air National Guard memos in 2004) than to pop out something real.