The way Walker answered his first question reminded me of the reasons I like Donald Trump: the manner in which Trump will
answer “gotcha” questions. When Chris Wallace asked Walker about his previous answer concerning Obama’s love for America, insinuating that he had dodged the question, Walker immediately started to play defense. He failed to mention that Rudy Giuliani didn’t just grab the statement out of thin air; the statement was not a mere accusation but a conclusion that Giuliani thought fit the stated facts. Walker continued to dodge, and finally was hemmed in to say, in a roundabout way, yes, he thought Obama loved America based on the fact he ran for president. Aaron Burr also ran for president during the electoral college vote in 1800. Did that cleanse him?
There have been so many situations such as this where the Republican being questioned acts as if the interviewer is disembodied truth itself speaking, compelling him to respond to the false premise behind the question as if it were true. He willingly allows himself to be completely constrained by the false premise – in this case that a yes answer would reflect very poorly on anyone who thought such things about Obama and not on Obama himself.
I have seen Trump take on these kinds of questions and he never falls into the trap. He would go on the offense, quote statements from Obama’s speeches and show that the case could be made that, for one, it is supremely obvious that Obama DOES NOT love the country as he found it. Has anyone ever seen Trump defensive about anything? That is the kind of person we need.