Iowa took umbrage, last week, over something an operative for Scott Walker said. Or, to be precise, something she once tweeted. For her indiscretion, Liz Mair was forced to resign from Walker’s political action committee. Walker is not yet an officially declared candidate for president but that is just political coyness. He’s running and a win in the Iowa caucuses would be a good way to start. So he could not tolerate a staffer tweeting, as Mair did, that

The sooner we remove Iowa’s frontrunning status, the better off American politics and policy will be.